What’s your answer when someone asks you, “ How can I get better as a musician?”

I hope you do n’t say, “ Spend further time rehearsing.” Utmost people do n’t know how to exercise. So, if they spend further time rehearsing, it wo n’t actually help them.

Then’s what will be to them rather

They ’ll keep making miscalculations, but further miscalculations than normal since they ’re spending further time rehearsing.
They ’ll keep feeling frustrated, but now they ’ll feel frustrated longer than ahead.
They still wo n’t know the answer to the question, “ How can I get better?”

I ’d like to answer their question.

Then are 10 proven secrets, lanes, and strategies to ameliorate musicians’ chops.
Every item on this list will speed up your literacy

1. Hear, Hear, Hear

Do n’t indeed exercise a song until you know exactly how it sounds. Know how the song or the variation or the air actually goes, note by note. Be suitable to sing it. Be comfortable with it in your mind. This will hectically drop the quantum of time it takes you to learn to play the song on your instrument.

2. Break Everything Down

I mean everything. Pitches. Measures. Expressions. Breathing. Fingering. Song Forms. Note Lengths. Timbre. Everything. Work everything down to the lowest unit that you can work on. Fix small, specific problems and stop fussing about the big picture of performing.

3. Go Slow

Go really slow. Go really, really slow. So decelerate that there’s no possible way to make a mistake. So decelerate that you can feel and fix details in your fashion that you did n’t indeed know about at “ normal” practice pets.

4. Do n’t Perform

Do n’t spend your practice time performing or running through entire songs. Runthroughs aren’t helpful until the final phase of rehearsing. That final phase only happens when you’re actually ready to perform. The before phases of rehearsing are about problem working. Doing a runthrough before you ’re ready can actually be dangerous.

5. Narrow Your Focus

What would be if, for just a many short twinkles, you put all of your energy and attention into fixing one musical issue? Just one. What if you were so focused that you did n’t indeed notice effects going on in the same room? If all you see, hear, feel, and suppose about is the one issue you ’re fixing, you’ll make amazing progress.

6. Know What You ’re Doing

Noway exercise for the sake of rehearsing. Always have commodity you ’re trying to negotiate – a small, specific thing just for moment. Negotiating a small thing is addicting, leading to further thing setting and further achievement. Before you know it, these small accomplishments will make you a better musician!

7. Fantasize Success

Utmost musicians worry that they ’re going to do commodity wrong. You ’ve got to turn this on its head. Spend some time each day doing amulti-sensory visualization of yourself playing faultlessly and loving it. See it. Hear it. Feel it. Be it. You control the visualization. After all, it’s in your mind! Fantasize perfection.

8. Stop Stopping

Nearly every musician naturally practices in such a way that they educate themselves miscalculations. They play until they make a mistake, suddenly stop, go back, slightly fix the mistake, and move on. All this teaches you is to include miscalculations, stops, and fixes in your performances.

9. Be Hard on Yourself

I do n’t mean to tell yourself that you do n’t sound good or that you ca n’t play commodity. I mean

• Pay attention to the little effects you generally let slide.
• Play exactly in tune. Exactly.
• Be extremely precise with your measures and tempos.
• Always be as exacting as possible.

10. Know Who to Hear To

Do n’t pay attention to other aspiring musicians – some with lower experience than you – who’ll try to tell you how effects work. This information will be grounded solely on their own experience and may not have anything to do with you and your requirements.

Rather, learn from experts who truly know what they ’re talking about. Pay attention to these people. They understand how effects really work. They wo n’t just give you their particular opinion. Their ideas will be grounded on proven styles backed up by exploration and by the top people in their area of moxie.