31 Days to Better Practicing: The Complete Series

Just over a month ago, I began the onerous task of writing an article a day on how to improve one's practice time on any instrument (although I couldn't help being a little piano-centric), as well as listing some ways to open one's mind to new concepts, methods, and music. Throughout the month, I have taken great encouragement from those that have left comments or emailed me, and would like to take this opportunity to thank them for giving me such useful feedback, specifically Rhona-Mae, Ben, Hugh, Robert, Paul R, s@bd, Becky, Melodie, Valerie, gottagopractice, Mat, Andrea, Robin, and Graham. I hope to meet all of you sometime (MTNA?) and get to know you in real life as well as in the blogosphere and Facebook.

Here are links to the entire series of articles:

Day 1: Build a Regular practice Schedule Part 1
Day 2: Build a Regular Practice Schedule Part 2
Day 3: Warming Up
Day 4: Goal Setting Part 1: Short Term Goals
Day 5: Goal Setting Part 2: Medium Term Goals
Day 6: Goal Setting Part 3: Long Term Goals
Day 7: Practice Links
Day 8: First Steps--Getting New Repertoire on its Feet
Day 9: Slow Practicing
Day 10: 5 Reasons to Memorize Music
Day 11: Find Your Repertoire
Day 12: Take Your Performance for a Test Drive...Every Day
Day 13: Naturally7 in the Paris Metro
Day 14: More Practice Links
Day 15: Making Endings Work
Day 16: 5 Things to Remember About Fingerings
Day 17: Interludes: Some Thoughts on Teaching and Learning
Day 18: More Practice Links
Day 19: Build Sight Reading Into Your Practice Session
Day 20: Silent Practicing
Day 21: Work Backwards
Day 22: Non-Structured Practice Time
Day 23: Record Yourself
Day 24: Add to Your Skills By Learning Theory
Day 25: 5 Ways to Add Length to Your Practice Session
Day 26: More Practice Links
Day 27: Run the Program
Day 28: Developing an Artistic Sensibility
Day 29: Add Collaboration To Your Activities
Day 30: Taking Stock of Your Accomplishments
Day 31: Find Your Muse, Find Your Process

The Piano Student's Guide to Effective Practicing By Nancy O'neill Breth. Educational Piano Library. Book only. 6 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (296450) See more info...