Know where you are before you decide where you're going. Take a quick skills inventory: what's coming up, where you feel stuck, and how you spend your practice time now. Then record yourself so you have a baseline, even if you don't listen to it yet.
Break your tunes into drills and fix technique before timing and tempo. A tune is hundreds of tiny skills strung together, so pull out the hard spots and work them on their own. Technique first, then timing, and speed always comes last.
Make a plan, commit to it, and give yourself credit for doing the work. Write down how much and which days you'll practice, and picture how you'll feel at the end of the week. Reward the effort separately from the result, and the results will follow.
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The Practice Playbook: How to Actually Get Better
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00:09actually get the How to practice playbook better:🔒
02:31a skills inventory Taking🔒
05:46professor and warrior the The🔒
06:48Picking list your and a short baseline recording🔒
09:30your cultivating vision down a commitment and Writing🔒
14:11Toolkit your play bagpipes #1: more🔒
17:24into drills break down Toolkit #2: things🔒
19:28form focus Toolkit #3: on🔒
21:10tool, T's use Toolkit the and #4: three the right🔒
23:28#5: the questions yourself ask Toolkit🔒
26:42Can you it do Consistency again? confidence and🔒
29:20credit Growth giving mindset yourself and🔒
35:157 birl Q&A: to the Member switching🔒
43:46tempo building the metronome and Q&A: exercises, Member🔒
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