Ah, the luxury of time, money & not having to work a day job! Unfortunately, this is not reality for most people. Question: why do you consider it a waste of time to spend time on repetoire during personal practice? Or did I misunderstand your statement? I find it helpful to help me to remember particular techniques that were worked on in my lessons by taking the time to review what rep that I am currently working on.
Pat Smith
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...> writes: The more often > you can study, the better, if you practice in between > your lessons (mentally -- that's VERY important -- > and, on the off-days, vocally), and give yourself a > day of rest once a week. Take lessons that are as > long as you can handle before getting vocally tired > (or, if you are a beginning singer, before your > concentration starts to wane). >
> Depending on what my goals are (sometimes we are > making technical breakthroughs, which require more > lesson time; sometimes we are drilling in those > concepts, which requires more of my practice time), I > study two or three or four times a week. Right now, I > am taking two 1.5-hour lessons a week and practicing > every off-day (but one) for 1.5 hours. I have studied > as much as four times a week, two for 1.5 hours and > two for 1 hour.
> Practicing: I think it's a waste of time to simply > warm up and run through your songs during your > practice time (unless your goal that week is stamina > for a particular piece).
> So my advice, in a nutshell, is: Study as often as > you're possibly able to without getting tired or > becoming too poor, and specific concepts + dedicated > practice sessions = progress. An hour of mental > technical study a day, an hour of working on your > languages a day, some squeezed-in bits of piano > practice and dance/exercise, and you're golden. What, > a life? This is great art. We don't need lives. > > > Isabelle B. > >
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