Practice as little as possible

Practice as little as possible. Try to use practice time as efficiently as possible. Practice like you’re lazy. Practice like you have a rehearsal tomorrow for a whole musical that you’ve never seen the music for.

Learn how to practice as efficiently as possible. Find out what works for you. Some practice techniques don’t work for everyone. Find the practice techniques that work for you.

Maybe you like looping one bar over and over until you can play it perfectly. Maybe you like playing passages so slowly that everything is perfect. Maybe you like practicing in small bursts. Whatever works for you is what you should do.

Try to ask yourself, “how do I learn this in five minutes?” Then try to actually learn that measure or two in five minutes. If you can actually do that you’ll get much better at practicing. It’ll force you to crunch your practice time and practice method and cut out any of the unnecessary stuff.

Practice as little as possible.

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