100 days of practice

Dorothy (Dothy/ Dot) || 19 || gay || voice/flute/uke/guitar/piano

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[10.07.17] 25/100 days of productivity 

I officially made the Mock Trial team (!!!!), so now I’m trying to get through about 150 pages of affidavits and rules before the next practice. 

[clarinetplayingpenguin]

Day 11/100: Started writing out my own copy of ‘Narcissus’ by Thea Musgrave. The copy my teacher gave me is really hard to read, so I decided to make my own (while listening to Mahler 2. It was a pretty good afternoon)

[clarinetplayingpenguin]

Day 2 (from yesterday my bad) featuring the Herbert Howells sonata, a new piece by Saariaho, my practice notes, and a polar bear

[classical-crap]

11/100 days of practice did some thirds today because they’re not my forte (accidental musician pun I’m so sorry)

[xtinastudiesmusic]

How to Make a 15 Minute Practice Session Count

You can get a lot of shit done in fifteen minutes. If you don’t have a lot of time but you still want to get something done on your instrument today, consider sitting down really quickly and crossing just one thing off of your musical to-do list. Here’s how: 

Have a plan. Knowing exactly what you’re going to do will help ensure that you actually get something done with the little time that you have. 

Do a quick warm up, and make it relevant to the goal you’re trying to achieve. For example, play the scale from the key of the thing you’re working on. 

Your goal should be something measurable and attainable. Learn one measure at a certain tempo could be one. Add articulation in a certain passage could be another. It all depends on what you need to get done. 

An example of a 15 minute practice plan should look something like this: 

Goal: Learn chromatic passage at measure 53

Warm-up with chromatic scale long tones and exercises (5 minutes)

Play four notes at a time accurately starting at 60 beats per minute

Play 8 notes at a time accurately

Play 12 notes at a time accurately

Play 16 notes at a time accurately

Bump up the tempo five clicks than repeat

After fifteen minutes, you’ll have learned one measure more than you did before. This is just one example. You can apply this to any piece of music with any type of practice technique. 

[bookswinalways]

23/100 days of productivity! A lovely café and drawing practice go together perfectly, don’t they?

[soyouwanttoplaytheflute]

“If you really want something you have to be prepared to work very hard, take advantage of opportunity and above all, never give up”

— Jane Goodall

[floatingflautist]

Day 4/100

I only practiced for about 15 minutes today because I had to work right after school and got home super late. But I still got a run done that I couldn't do at the start of this. The pinky cramp is real though XD I'm hoping to play a lot more tomorrow as I only have 8 hours of school tomorrow. Is anyone else struggling with awful runs? I hate them but they are so satisfying once you learn them.

[floatingflautist]

Day 3/100

Hello again! I have actually practiced for 3 days now and it feels very nice. I only did around half an hour each day, but even practicing casually has helped a lot! What I'm currently working on is the flute 1 part of an arrangement of the the novie soundtrack from 'the Perfect Storm'. It's beautiful. Not that challenging but pretty fast at times and I also suck at runs, of which it has some. But I'm already noticing progress so that's great!

[clarinetplayingpenguin]

Day 8/100 - adventures in avant-garde music and why i shouldn’t be allowed on snapchat

(this is from Saariaho’s Duft for solo clarinet)

[floatingflautist]

Soooo I'm doing the 100 days of practice challenge

I'm tired of always feeling like I am not doing my best. Which ist true. So I decided to start practicing. A lot. Every day. I am also starting private flute lessons (for the forst time ever), so I want to get a good start. If anyone would like to join/ be friends/ judge me heavily/ follow my progress, they are welcome!

[8th-note-boulevard]

Just don’t sound like a duck, I beg you

[dailypracticetips]

Practice Tip #57

If you have trouble with a passage, try singing it so that you can hear the phrase in your mind when you play it on your instrument. It might distract you from whatever technical barriers you encounter.

[lemonboyrecovers]

Here is the first of my practice log templates! This one is my personal favorite because it involves minimal work and it allows you to look and see if you’re happy with what you’ve gotten done. I also think it’s nice to write monthly goals along with it. I’ve also included an example of how I use it.

There’s two that I put down and of course I did them in yellow but you could obviously either edit them or remake them for yourself!

If you do use them I wouldn’t mind a reblog, but obviously not required and they’re obviously free ❤️

@emmajeanstudies I know you said you were interested in them so here’s the first of the batch! Hope you like it

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[hexaviolet]

slightly weird wind player practice tip of the day

working on a piece with lots of technical sections and very little room to breathe? play it after running in circles or doing jumping jacks or push-ups, or just any other physical exercise that’ll get you out of breath. then mark the places where you had to take a breath while playing it, and practice it over and over breathing in those same places every time. 

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ok i’m sure most of you already know this, but i witnessed some terrible practising this weekend and wanted to just give out a very important tip:

even if you only have fifteen minutes to practise a difficult place, start with a very very very slow tempo, so slow that you simply cannot get the notes wrong. make sure to use the same type of bow and the same fingerings you would in the actual tempo, but make sure to play slow. once you can play it the way you want to, you can up the tempo a little bit (the amount depends on how much time you have. preferably go up slowly but in a rush i might do 15 bpm at a time). if you can’t play the passage in your new tempo, go back to the previous one and then try the faster pace again. this way once you get to the tempo you want you know you can play the bit no matter what. (this method is seriously extremely effective, i’ve learnt many bits i thought were impossible in just an hour or so.)

never just play a passage repeatedly in the actual tempo, it won’t make you learn it well; you might be able to play the place a couple of times but if you start with a slow tempo you will learn the passage in a way where you’ll never fail it. also if you aren’t in a rush, try doing different rhythms and if the fingerings are difficult but bowings easy, try playing everything legato first. 

this kind of applies to everything you practise, not only fast and difficult bits: when learning a new piece, it is best to practise a couple of measures at a time, first slowly and then a bit faster. spend time on each measure and learn small phrases by heart and at the end you’ll be able to play the whole piece (by heart!) without having to pay attention to any small details anymore as you’ve already handled them 

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