Dyring Music Practice Expectations

 

How Much Time to Practice

• Students are expected to diligently prepare lesson assignments each week.
• Every part of the assignment is important.
• The amount of practice time depends on your age, your level, and your goals.
• Your daily practice time should be the same as or more than the length of your lesson.
• More practice time will help you to improve faster.

Split Up Your Daily Practice Time

• Good practicing happens only when you are not distracted.
• If your mind starts to wander, it’s time to take a break!
• Come back later on in the day when your mind is fresh again.

Take Notes of How Much You Practice

• You can benefit from writing down your practice time.
• Write down in your lesson notebook how many minutes in each session, then add up your time for the day.
• For example, if you spend 15 minutes, then another 20, your total that day would be 35.
• Seeing how much time you actually practiced can better help you to understand your progress.

Quality of Practice

• The quality of your practice time is much more important than the number of minutes.
• With better quality practice time, you will accomplish more in less time.
• Practice and repeat small sections of your music at a time to focus on improving them.
• Aim to solve problems instead of repeating mistakes.
• Remember that you can’t do quality practicing unless you actually spend time practicing!
• Check the Resources pages for more advice on how to practice well.

Role of Parents

• Positive encouragement and reminders to practice can be helpful for students to learn to develop a stable practice routine.
• The most helpful guidance from parents motivates students to learn to solve problems for themselves.