Thread: 60/40 Practice.
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Old 02-26-2005, 12:21 AM   #1 (permalink)
dbacon
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60/40 Practice.

I have a rule of thumb for my daily practice. 60% of my time is spent re-inforcing things I can do well. 40% is spent working on stuff I don't do so well. I make sure to keep up all the skills I'm good at, and hit hard things I have trouble doing after I'm confident the other skills are solid. Another way to think of it is to sound great for 60% (of course always sound the best possible) and then push the envelope the other 40%.

I try to end with good sounding material as well, so the horn goes away when the confidence is high!
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