{"id":523,"date":"2010-08-04T22:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T02:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicboxmusicstudio.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-08-04T22:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T02:55:59","slug":"the-more-time-you-put-in-the-less-time-it-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicboxfmc.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-more-time-you-put-in-the-less-time-it-take\/","title":{"rendered":"The more time you put in, the less time it takes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"See<\/a>A sweet young man entered\u00a0a music\u00a0studio one day. He was so excited to start learning with his new teacher. He was a young teen and had an air of business about him as\u00a0he and the teacher\u00a0discussed scheduling and past musical experience. “I’m in a band you see and need some help with learning some of the songs”, he explained.<\/p>\n

“I can help you with that”,\u00a0the teacher\u00a0replied, and then asked how long he had been playing the piano. He looked at\u00a0the teacher\u00a0with a strange expression as if to say “duh!” and then proceeded to\u00a0announce that this would be his very first lesson ever!<\/p>\n

Taken aback\u00a0the teacher\u00a0asked if he could read music to which he replied “no”. Then, perplexed\u00a0the teacher \u00a0asked what instrument he was playing in the band. He said keyboard! Their first gig was in a month. This lad thought that after a few pointers he’d be playing Elton John and\u00a0the poor teacher\u00a0was put in the uncomfortable position of letting him know…well it just isn’t that simple. Learning how to read music and play an instrument take time.<\/p>\n

So how much time does it take to learn how to play the piano? Well consider the practice habits of a successful grade\u00a04 student. (grade 4 because that level is part way\u00a0between beginner and advanced levels) This student practices five times each week for approximately 60 minutes. That works out to 300 minutes per week, 1200 minutes per month. So over a ten month period (September – June), this student would have practiced about 12,000 minutes.<\/p>\n

Now consider a student who is barely progressing. She is only practicing 15 minutes, four times each week. That is one hour of practice each week which\u00a0works out to 240 minutes per month and 2400 minutes per music year.<\/p>\n

There is a very big difference between 2400 and 12000! It would take the second student five years to accomplish what the first student did in one year.<\/p>\n

My point is that the passing of time is not the deciding factor in how quickly you can master an instrument. It is how much practice occurs during that time that counts. The more one practices, the faster one will learn.<\/p>\n

I will admit that there are some students\u00a0 who seem to learn at a fast rate without doing\u00a0\u00a0much practice at all,\u00a0but\u00a0the success\u00a0is short lived as playing an instrument requires physical skill that can only develop through repetition and experience.\u00a0Great sight reading skills cannot help a student to play a fast and difficult passage when the requirements for execution are accuracy and speed combined with variances in\u00a0weight for dynamic effect.\u00a0\u00a0All of these skills\u00a0demand\u00a0rehearsal, experimentation and focused analyses. Sounds like work huh?\u00a0It’s worth it when you can play that same difficult passage with\u00a0ease and confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Getting back to\u00a0the\u00a0ambitious young man, it turned out that 12000 minutes of practice wasn’t part of the plan… and so after a few weeks\u00a0he switched to guitar lessons. (psst…you have to practice guitar too!)<\/p>\n

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