Practice Like The Pros!

When should you start learning music?  If you ask yourself something different first, I’ll think you’ll have your answer to this question. 

The different question is...‘do you want to learn music?’

If the answer is ‘yes’, then the answer to ‘when should you start learning music’ is now. NOW! NOW! ...

One of the biggest questions I’ve gotten in my many years of teaching people to play music is about learning music theory. It seems that most people think of music theory as some mythical language that takes decades to learn and implement, or some wonky, intellectual mumbo-jumbo that has no real app...

Let’s paint this amazing scenario: 

You want to learn how to play music at a high level. You understand that you must practice consistently  and you have to create the time in your daily life to work on your musical skills. You get a private teacher and you come up with a list of things to work on)...

How often should you practice, you ask? Well every day, of course! Without fail. You certainly want to practice on any day that ends in a “Y”. C’mon, don’t you know that?

If you think that’s not practical, you haven’t been reading our articles. Remember, you will never find the time to practice; yo...

So you don’t feel like practicing, huh? Join the club, pal! One of the most challenging things with learning music is that it’s something you have to…you know…LEARN! Learning takes time. Learning takes effort. In this instant gratification culture, who wants to deal with time and effort??

I think b...

At the time of publishing this article, I’ll have been playing music in one form or another for over 40 years. Most of those years, I have been performing music in a high-level, professional capacity. Over nearly 30 of those years, I have spent a lot of time teaching other musicians of all ages and ...

Let’s face it: very few people on planet earth actually like practicing music!

There! I’ve said it! The “Practice Warriors Guy” just admitted that people don’t like to practice. Wow! 

Stop the presses! Alert the media! We’ve got the scoop of the century!!

Sarcasm aside, perhaps I should change my...

 Most people have plenty of things to practice, but they first need to learn HOW to practice. That’s what we teach our Practice Warriors. So, don’t worry about what to practice until you learn how to practice using the specific music learning strategies that have helped thousands of people all over ...

 I’ve heard the excuses so many times I can recite them by heart. They fly around my head like songs on a broken record. I’ve heard them for decades, and they amuse me just as much today as they did many, many moons ago. They are all answers to the same question I ask people again and again:

“Why d...

In an earlier blog post, I talked about the Top 5 Myths that people have with learning music. Like most myths, some are True, some are False and some could be thought of as True, BUT… where this is some validity to the myth. 

…but are there only five myths? Of course not! The good folks here at Pra...

In our previous blog (Part 1: Why You Won’t Practice), you learned why your “old self” wasn't able to practice in a deliberate, consistent way due to the negative associations you created in the past about practicing.  You also learned about the forces of  'avoiding pain' and/or 'gaining pleasure' t...

If you haven't stuck with a practice routine in the past, then you'll need to gain some clarity as to WHY you haven't.  I mean, you've got to discover the real reason you haven't practiced consistently. Sure, sure, you're busy, you've got a lot going on, you're tired, you don't know what to do, blah...