How to Practice Music Scales or Songs Effectively

Almost every musician that you meet runs into periods when practicing their instrument reaches a grinding halt.

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While it’s only time until you find the inspiration to begin practicing again, there are other ways to ensure that you pick up the pace sooner rather than later.

Of course, a number of teachers would have their students repeat a piece of music up until boredom, which leads to mediocrity, will set in.

Rote practicing is hardly the way to go when it comes practicing music at all even if this might come across as blatantly challenging methods that have been used for years, decades and centuries.

If there’s anything that’s true, it is the fact that practicing a song about 20 times until you get better and better at it will just not work. In other words, when you play a piece repeatedly just for the sake of repetition, this will hardly help you master it at all.

Of course, this doesn’t mean you don’t repeat playing certain exercises and songs but just that you do it with a completely different mindset. That’s all!

That said, the key to really improving when you practice a music piece repeatedly is focus your effort on a small part of the piece until you perfect. After this, you can ‘add on’ a new set of notes and then perfect that sequence of notes as well.

And keeping this mind, you have to remember that you have to keep listening to how the piece (group of notes as mentioned earlier) sounds each time you play.

Ultimately, effective music practice involves thinking about how you approach perfecting a song or scale.