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 Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:20 am
I've been playing for a little over 2 years now, and i've only mastered practicing for an hour. What's the secret to practicing for hours at a time??! i want to get better and better, but after just an hour I can go through a full repatour, playing each song many times over (i'm not counting the numberous fiddle pieces I know). whaaaat is the key to practicing for hours on end?? sad redface
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:37 am
Someone told me to try going a little longer each day. Say ten minutes. But then, that was because I experience physical pain when I practice.
And it's not so much important to practice long as it is to practice well. When you first learn a piece, you practice longer and harder than when you've pretty well mastered it, choosing passages and playing them over and over and over again, slowly and getting faster. After you've worked through all of the difficult passages, you practice for perfection; getting dynamics, articulation, all the little tiny details. I don't really know if any of that helps... but when you've learned a piece you tend not to play it for as long.
*finishes rambling*
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:30 pm
The ultimate secret...
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Take breaks biggrin
Also, a good excercise is to hold you violin by your chin excessively tightly for 2 minutes each day, the gradually increase untill you can do that excessive holding for an hour biggrin by then you are pwolly extremely used to having your left hand free and won't get tired from practicing for hours biggrin
Always have a goal before practicing.
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:22 pm
Isilmeriel The ultimate secret... ... ... ... Take breaks biggrin Also, a good excercise is to hold you violin by your chin excessively tightly for 2 minutes each day, the gradually increase untill you can do that excessive holding for an hour biggrin by then you are pwolly extremely used to having your left hand free and won't get tired from practicing for hours biggrin Always have a goal before practicing. that's sounds like a really good excersise, some times, maybe, but doesn't that include tension in her neck and shoulder? and i've heard too many horror stories of people who hold their fiddles with just their shoulder and chin, so i'm not so keen. thanks a lot, neway! Maybe you have different methods, i dunno surprised Kalile, that really intriges me, and I think that's gonna help alot. biggrin
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:31 pm
ViridianEmbers Isilmeriel The ultimate secret... ... ... ... Take breaks biggrin Also, a good excercise is to hold you violin by your chin excessively tightly for 2 minutes each day, the gradually increase untill you can do that excessive holding for an hour biggrin by then you are pwolly extremely used to having your left hand free and won't get tired from practicing for hours biggrin Always have a goal before practicing. that's sounds like a really good excersise, some times, maybe, but doesn't that include tension in her neck and shoulder? and i've heard too many horror stories of people who hold their fiddles with just their shoulder and chin, so i'm not so keen. thanks a lot, neway! Maybe you have different methods, i dunno surprised Kalile, that really intriges me, and I think that's gonna help alot. biggrin Horror stories comes out of improper usage of this practice. That's why you start with 2 minutes a day razz the next week you can go on to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This method was taught to me by a number of authority violinists, one of them is the CM of the TSO biggrin it works. and btw, you are SUPPOSED to be able to hold the instrument solely my chin and shoulder, otherwise you would have an improper left hand position which leads to difficulty in shifting in fast passages, = amateur playing.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:52 am
Isilmeriel ViridianEmbers Isilmeriel The ultimate secret... ... ... ... Take breaks biggrin Also, a good excercise is to hold you violin by your chin excessively tightly for 2 minutes each day, the gradually increase untill you can do that excessive holding for an hour biggrin by then you are pwolly extremely used to having your left hand free and won't get tired from practicing for hours biggrin Always have a goal before practicing. that's sounds like a really good excersise, some times, maybe, but doesn't that include tension in her neck and shoulder? and i've heard too many horror stories of people who hold their fiddles with just their shoulder and chin, so i'm not so keen. thanks a lot, neway! Maybe you have different methods, i dunno surprised Kalile, that really intriges me, and I think that's gonna help alot. biggrin Horror stories comes out of improper usage of this practice. That's why you start with 2 minutes a day razz the next week you can go on to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This method was taught to me by a number of authority violinists, one of them is the CM of the TSO biggrin it works. and btw, you are SUPPOSED to be able to hold the instrument solely my chin and shoulder, otherwise you would have an improper left hand position which leads to difficulty in shifting in fast passages, = amateur playing. Good point...well, that puts me out! *poof* whee lol!
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:21 pm
The most important thing about practicing for a long time is making sure you have correct posture. If you don't, you will start to feel it, and eventually regret it. I just went through about 6 months of physical therapy and rewiring almost everything I knew about how to play the violin because I had too much tension in my left hand. Now I'm stuck with tendonitis. However, if you want to knwo the trick to being able to practice for hours every day, it's quite simple. Play for half an hour, take a ten minute break. Play for another half an hour, take another break. Your breaks and playing times can change based on how you feel, but that's the basic gist of it.
Another pracitcing tip that will make you sound infinetly better: practice slowly. Practicing slowly is the key to good intonation. All the great soloists will tell you, that the best way to prepare a concerto or something equally significant, is to play through the entire peice on the lowest tempo marking you can make your metronome go to. Then put it up one, and play through the peice again. Do it until you work your way up to your goal tempo. Now, that's kind of excessive for the amateur violinist, but the point is to practice slowly. It helps worlds.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:33 am
Gah! I never practice for more than an hour. Maybe an hour and a half tops. I just don't have time. If I wanted to practice longer I'd guess I'd do what Isilmeriel says and take breaks. Plus if you are actually enjoying what you're playing you'll want to practice longer.
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:17 am
Br7son The most important thing about practicing for a long time is making sure you have correct posture. If you don't, you will start to feel it, and eventually regret it. I just went through about 6 months of physical therapy and rewiring almost everything I knew about how to play the violin because I had too much tension in my left hand. Now I'm stuck with tendonitis. However, if you want to knwo the trick to being able to practice for hours every day, it's quite simple. Play for half an hour, take a ten minute break. Play for another half an hour, take another break. Your breaks and playing times can change based on how you feel, but that's the basic gist of it. Another pracitcing tip that will make you sound infinetly better: practice slowly. Practicing slowly is the key to good intonation. All the great soloists will tell you, that the best way to prepare a concerto or something equally significant, is to play through the entire peice on the lowest tempo marking you can make your metronome go to. Then put it up one, and play through the peice again. Do it until you work your way up to your goal tempo. Now, that's kind of excessive for the amateur violinist, but the point is to practice slowly. It helps worlds. thank you!!!! heart me bad, i don't especially like practising slowly, but i know it helps, just didn't know how much it did! breaks are ok, but they set me off track. redface sweatdrop thanks again biggrin
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:25 pm
Ah, this reminds me of my H.S. competition days...I once spent 3 days practicing, from about 8am-8pm, with breaks of course. How? Polishing, polishing, polishing. Play the whole piece together. Afterwards, analyze. practice the measures you screwed up slowly, then bring them each up to correct speed. Play the whole song again to help you integrate the problem measures back into the song. Analyze again. Refine the weak spots. I kept doing this for a very long time. If you do all your songs--and don't forget to come back to the ones you did at the beginning--you'll be suprised how time flies! Half the time, you don't even realize how much time has gone by! At least I don't...hehe.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:45 pm
hehe my record in 13 hours in one day, it was really fun, i'd say for tips, that you jsut need to have a reason for practicing, make it fun, practice with friends. When i practiced for 13 hours i was at a camp with everyone around me playing and the people there made me want to get ALOT better cause there was people who were better than me that hadn't been playing as long. So yeah, hehe ^_^ have fun!
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:41 pm
ViridianEmbers I've been playing for a little over 2 years now, and i've only mastered practicing for an hour. What's the secret to practicing for hours at a time??! i want to get better and better, but after just an hour I can go through a full repatour, playing each song many times over (i'm not counting the numberous fiddle pieces I know). whaaaat is the key to practicing for hours on end?? sad redface what makes you think you need to practice that much??? i've been playing for about 7 years and i practice an hour a day at most, but i'm not bad. also, what helps is to be in a group that rehearses a lot, like a school orchestra that rehearses every day. that will give you another 40 min. of playing a day and playing in an orchestra is more interesting than practicing on your own but you are playing just as much. and if you play everything you know in an hour, you should find more to work on so you aren't playing the same things so many times, or spend more time fine tuning and playing specific parts slowly that need practice. fiddle tunes are practice too. any type of playing makes you better.
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