music practice
Scales and repetition
Music practice is the deliberate, repeated work of developing musical skills—playing scales, rehearsing difficult passages, memorizing pieces.
Distinguished from casual playing by its focused intent to improve: I need to get in an hour of music practice before dinner.
Parents often negotiate with children about practice time and consistency.
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- drillsRepetitive training routines
- repetitionAct of redoing
- metronomeAdjustable beat-marking device
exercises · warm-up · fingers · hand position · technique · etudes · hours · daily routine · discipline · studio · mistakes · muscle memory · tempo · bowing · arpeggios · sight-reading · playing by ear · private lessons
- personal recordingsvoice memo, voicemail, home video, video diary, audio diary
- memory trainingmemory games, memory match, memory palace, memorization, mnemonics
- Parenting tasksfeeding, bathing, bedtime routines, school pickup, homework help
- family traditionsfamily traditions, holiday dinner, family dinner, family reunions, bedtime story
- personal goalsfitness goals, career goals, education, learning, self-study
- school recordingstutorial video, student presentation, choir performance, band concert, graduation ceremony
music practiceleisure time
Unscheduled waking hours
relaxation · goofing off · slacking off · idleness · doing nothing
music practiceperformance
Carrying out a task
recital · concert · live performance · gig · show
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