Week 12:

Reading Ahead

PRACTICE ROUTINE

By this point in the year, you should have settled into a regular practice routine of 4-5 days per week, 15-20 minutes each day. Below is what each day should look like:

Warm-up: 3-4 Minutes (Bow Exercises & EOEC)
Practice (Say, Sing, Play 5x): 13-15 minutes
Perform a piece for someone or play-along with the IPS app: 1-2 minutes

String Basics: Pg. 10 - Reading Ahead

When reading advanced music, our analogy of reading a book to reading music starts to break down. Your brain has to do so many different things to play the music successfully, we need to start reading the music ahead of actually playing the music. If we don't, your brain is stuck thinking about what it needs to play, resulting in a break in the music, or as I call it, a "Thought Break." This week we start training your eyes to read ahead of your instrument, only 1 note right now, but it's a huge help in playing through a piece fluently!

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