Timeline for Practice amount and habits for time constrained individuals
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| Oct 13, 2013 at 17:15 | vote | accept | darbehdar | ||
| Oct 13, 2013 at 17:15 | vote | accept | darbehdar | ||
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| Oct 4, 2013 at 15:46 | comment | added | horatio | "A 'measly' 1 - 1.5 hours a day would be nowhere near enough to achieve serious results" presupposes a fixed timeline. You have a lifetime. Also, that person is a naysaying snob. Avoid. | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 15:44 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @darbehdar: Indeed this is an excellent answer. Your conjecture that quality is better than quantity is supported by brain research. Many people learn skills best by changing focus every fifteen minutes to allow the brain time to encode the results of the practice into long term storage. In my youth when I would practice hard pieces for more than an hour I would find that my brain was learning to make mistakes. If you find you're making the same mistake over and over again then cut your losses, do something else, and come back to it when you're fresh later. | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 5:02 | comment | added | darbehdar | Hey thanks a lot 'jjmusicnotes', great answer. In particular that part on 'breaking up' sessions and doing cognitively demanding parts earlier in the day. This view seems to re-enforce the heuristic that quality is better than quantity, i.e. efficient and focused practicing might be worth more minute by minute than brute force marathons | |
| Oct 4, 2013 at 3:47 | history | answered | jjmusicnotes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |