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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

How Do I Find Time To Practice?

For many, you want to learn how to play piano or improve your playing, but do not have a lot of spare time for practicing. Or at least so you think.

According to some experts, if you take 24 hours a day and multiply that by 7 days a week, you have 168 hours of time each week. If you subtract a 40 hour work week and 56 hours a week of sleeping, there are still 72 hours a week left for other things.

This leaves us approximately 10 hours a day to do our other duties. This is of course purely theoretical. As I am sure you are aware of, most things in theory do not work the same way in reality.

So, the question becomes, how can we take advantage of some of this time for our piano ambitions?

You know as well as I, that Time is one of our major stressors in life. Well, to remind you, playing piano should be fun, and not stressful.

How do we keep this fun?

By remembering a lot can be accomplished in Little Bits.

Consistency is the key here! Can you find 5-10 minutes a day? You will be amazed at what you can accomplish in this little time frame each day. Not only that, each of those days you spend this time practicing ads up. For example if you practice 10 minutes a day over 10 days, you have practiced for 100 minutes. In other words, you have practiced for 1 hour and 40 minutes.

You will be amazed at the kind of progress you will make practicing in this manner. I even have one student that is now getting up a few minutes earlier to do this. The best part about this is she's making good progress.

Some of you may have more than the 5-10 minutes a day I mention here. If so, that is great!

The main thing to remember is consistency. Practicing a little consistently will be more effective that practicing a lot here-and-there over the long run.

Again, remember to keep your practicing fun and enjoyable!

I hope you have enjoyed this article.

Talk to you soon,

Charley Wyser
http://www.easypiano.com/

"Now is always a good time to start!"

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1 comment:

  1. Nice post. I find that especially with adult piano students, it's difficult to not only get the time in to practice piano, but also the consistency. Adults tend to be hard on themselves and get discouraged when they are not making progress as fast as they would like. It is challenging for adults to continue the consistent daily bits of practice as you mention. But I believe with a certain amount of self-motivation and encouragement by the teacher, it is definitely possible. :)
    -Theresa
    http://www.opusmusiceducation.com

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