Remember these are guidelines: You can be a little flexible. For example: If you don’t have band/duet music to practice one day, cut it out and add the minutes to another category. If you really want to focus work on one solo for the whole time each day instead of doing each solo 10 minutes do the one for 30. Or just review the other solos quickly. If time is running short and you’ve completed your etude, leave it out so you can focus on what you need to work on. These are guidelines. As long as you're prepared for your lesson and your are improving you are doing great. Type of Student Typical Lesson Description Typical Practice Session Track 1 - The Serious Student - Long Tones, Harmonics, Lip Flex, Work with tuner, refinement of tone -Technical development. Generally student is expected to do most of the work at home after the material is learned. -Etude work -3-4 Solos -Duet if time -Band music if you are having an issue or test coming up. 5-10 min: Long Tones and Warm-up 15 min: Technique work. Technical exercises are daily exercises. You do them for years as part of your warm-up. You don’t do them all everyday, but strive to get through some of each each week. 5-10 minutes: Etude. You are expected to finish one etude a week. 15-20 minutes: Each solo. Solos are worked on long term. Several Months at a time. 5-10 minutes: Duet/Band The amount you spend on this will depend on you. If you are doing maximum practice times with 2 solos you will have a total of 1 hour of practice. If you are doing maximum practice and want to get through all your solos and duet/band on a daily basis you will have a total of 2 hours. Track 2 - The Moderately Serious Student -Long Tones, Harmonics, Lip Flex, Work with tuner, refinement of tone -Technical development. Generally student is expected to do most of the work at home after the material is learned. -Etude work -2-3 Solos -Duet if time -Band music if you are having an issue or test coming up. 2-5 minutes: Long Tones, Harmonics, Lip Flex, Work with tuner, refinement of tone, If you only have time to do one thing, do your long tones. 5-10 minutes: Technical development. Generally student is expected to do most of the work at home after the material is learned. 5-10 minutes-Etude work (you are expected to complete one etude-or book assignment a week) 10-15 minutes-2-3 Solos 5 minutes- Duet/Band Music If you are doing maximum time with 2 solos you are practicing 60 minutes. If you do the minimums with 2 solos you have a total of 27 minutes. Track 3 - The Enjoyment Only student -Long Tones, Harmonics -Book work -Band Music if needed -1-2 solos -Duet 2 minutes-Long Tones, Harmonics 10 minutes-Book work 8 minutes-Band Music if needed if you have nothing to work on add the minutes to book, solo, or duet categories. 10 minutes-1-2 solos If you have time-Duet If you do that example schedule you have 30 minutes. |