Practicing instruments can be a challenge for many students and even for prime time musicians as well. I’ve encountered many classes where my students are being unable to advance or continue, in their syllabus or course of learning a particular instrument.
At The Cat Studio, the premiere music school in Penang, we take this seriously in hand.
Problems occurs when students becomes lazy to practice or even play their instruments. Not any more. They want to quit. Well, I’ve seen that, I even have students who dropped out, because of that reason. Well, why they dropped out, anyway, some may ask. Common reasons includes, ” I’ve school exams“,”No transport“,” Very busy” , and really, things like that.
Well, enough of the problem statement, this applies to every instrument, including the piano, violin, guitar, drum, even vocals! Yes!, I have even singers comes into the recording studio, unprepared and we take a hours, just to record a part in the song.
So what do we do?
My solution is simple, honest, I’m might be a lazy person myself too, but this works, listen. Parents may be wasting all their sweat forcing their children to study, practice and train for hours and hours. But hows this; I say, only practice 10 mins a day. Yes, 10 MINUTES. Is that manageable? Of course it is! It will not even break a sweat out of you. Music is a sort of education, one must be able to see, & mastering an instruments is based on repetition. So, 10 minutes x 7 days = 70 minutes.
Next step, would be playing your instrument in performances and gigs, organized, by The Cat Studio, Penang. What you learnt and obtain should be put into use. A musician that plays slick sounding guitars, rocks in his own bedroom, gets his brother to compliment him, but when out on a stage, becoming as shy as a mouse. Would that be an ideal musician? I think that is waste of talent and experience!
So in a nutshell, remember music is an education, and practicing 10 minutes a day & joining gis, WILL NOT harm you. It fact, it should improve your confidence, and add positive effects to your brain memory.
So that is all for now, practice hard, and Rock On!
Signing out,
Reuben Ch’ng in The Recording Studio
Penang, Malaysia
Thank you, as your student learning guitar, you do motivate me to learn and be all I can!
I just want to say that you are really helpful and patient when teaching me and I apprecite that.