Building habits

When learning an instrument or how to compose music, there’s often a lot of things to learn and it can be overwhelming at first. But if you think of it as building lots of habits, then it can be less overwhelming.

Separate all of the different things that you want to learn into chunks and practice one thing at a time.

Build each habit separately.

Then build habits on top of that.

Then once you’ve built one habit, add another. And another. And another.

Eventually the things that you worked on at the beginning will be second nature. The things that gave you trouble when you started will be incredibly simple.

They’ll be something you do natural … out of habit.

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