Study Time

jj_villafane · #1 03-01-2010, 12:23 AM

I've created this poll out of the Study Schedule thread i posted a few days ago. Between all the ideas posted there we have come to an important question.

What is more efficient..?

To spend your whole day of practice (whether is 2 or 8 hours, it doesn't matter) on one aspect of your playing, or dividing the time you have each day to practice a little bit of every aspect of music and guitar playing..???

It would also be good to know why do you think one way is better than the other..!

Gilles · #2 03-01-2010, 12:56 AM

Both "ways" are good. It just depends :

1-What kind of person you are
2-What musical material you're tackling
3-For how long.

I doubt that one can spend many (let's say 5-6-7-8 hours) on ONE topic without really "subdividing" into smaller fragments of the same problem.

I hope this helps.

franco6719 · #3 03-01-2010, 05:06 AM

No one has voted, eh? Makes sense actually. Basically, I agree with the above. It's not really an either/or thing and there's no general answer that can apply to everyone that I can think of. I think my answer would be, depending on you situation, you should try to spend MORE time on one thing that you feel is a particular weakness at the time or more time on something that you need to focus on for a gig or for a lesson or other type of "requirement". If you have basically blank slate to do what you choose, you should still focus on one major, overall thing (I want to learn these four tunes, I really want to learn this solo, etc) without neglecting some time on the rest.

I think, really, it's something that needs to be thought about each day while you are practicing. In other words, practice thoughtfully. Am I overdoing this? What am I getting from this? Am I too "distributed" and not giving this other thing enough time? Etc...

randalljazz · #4 03-01-2010, 06:45 AM

lay out your work the night before...

fep · #5 03-01-2010, 09:04 AM

I can't answer the poll because neither of those options apply to me.

Every aspect of music?... I couldn't even make a list of every aspect of music much less study all aspects of music in one day.

But to answer what I think you meant to ask... I practice multiple aspects of guitar/music studies in one day.

FatJeff · #6 03-01-2010, 10:00 AM

How about a third option...Focus on a FEW items each day, and rotate them throughout the week?

jj_villafane · #7 03-01-2010, 11:03 AM

You guys are all right. It's impossible to review all aspects of music in one day. That question makes nosense. It's better to say A FEW aspects of music. I tried but i cannot change the poll :S

derek · #8 03-01-2010, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FatJeff

How about a third option...Focus on a FEW items each day, and rotate them throughout the week?

This is my vote.

fep · #9 10-02-2010, 08:23 PM

Or a fourth option...

4) Work on what's on the top of the to do list.

For instance today I spent my music time transcribing all the parts to the intro of the Headhunters Watermelon Man for one of the ensembles I play with.

Recently, most of my practice time is either writing charts or working out parts for tunes that I'll be rehearsing/playing on with ensembles.