When it comes to practicing there are a few methods that you should follow that will really help your
long speech process along and make for the best results.
The first is that you want to have a clear idea of what your practice schedule looks like.
You want to be practicing on a daily basis nearly a daily basis daily basis maybe one or two days a
week but close to a daily basis.
I prefer a daily basis.
So you want to dedicate an amount of time that you feel you can are willing to regularly contribute
to practice on a daily basis.
If that were a half an hour that's fine.
Set aside that half hour is if it's one hour.
That's that's great.
Whatever works for you.
For a regular schedule is what you should build your practice schedule around.
So let's imagine that it's only 30 minutes.
We have a 30 minute practice schedule in the day.
You want to spend lots of time practicing so that you have five minutes set aside for scales five minutes
set aside for triads five minutes set aside for some other practice if you want major scale for example
or major scale to octave something specific that you want to work on.
One of the modes you set clear times for those.
So you don't just get lost in practicing that that you practice it for a set amount of time and then
you move on to the next element that you want to practice.
It's important to do it this way because it's so much more valuable for your learning to practice a
little every day rather than a lot on one day and then not practice for several days or for a few days
even so you want to practice out something a little bit every day and if you practice even just five
minutes of scales but you do that every day you'll see an increase in your ability if you were to do
that for 15 minutes every day you would see a faster increase.
And so on but that daily practice that regular practice is is what you want to shoot for rather than
passing a test the poor four hours one day and they're not practicing at all for another two days.
You'll be far more effective in your learning if you practice a little bit every day.
So the schedule that you know you can keep that will get you on a nice even regimen so that you can
dedicate a certain amount of time to the different elements that you really want to develop elements
that you really love tools you want to have at your disposal that sounds great to you that you feel
work for you.
Other elements that may use your you want to polish a little bit more that you want to work on a little
bit more.
Add those in and build half of your time around that.
But the other half your time or even slightly more than half should be dedicated playing songs to the
artistry of music to enjoying the craft not practicing scales and triads.
Those are fantastic and they are essential but they are they are for a purpose and that purpose is music.
So spend if you had that half an hour I would spend at least 15 minutes say 15 minutes is a nice even
split 15 minutes on the practice schedule that you had the regimen of five minutes five minutes five
minutes for Trier's scales arpeggios and major seventh chords modes whatever you want to work on.
But take that other 15 minutes and practice music.
Play a song that you're working on learn be learning songs by ear find tabs for songs that you love
songs that you really love and learn them learn the melody for songs learn the bass parts of course
for all these different songs whatever moves you learn them in practice songs and music is part of your
regular routine.
Also practice writing bass lines coming up with bass lines.
Another element to consider is that when you're playing a passage you want to finish playing on the
perfect version the muscle memory where you're building muscle memory if you make that perfect connection
you play it perfectly.
You want to take 60 seconds just relax don't do anything.
Just relax and absorb that let your muscle memory absorb that that perfect mind that she playing that
that perfect part that she played.
However you do whatever you were working on when you hit it right.
Don't go right into playing it again.
Take a minute take a minute.
Oh yeah.
That was a winner.
Take that win.
Let your muscle memory absorb that and then go back to practicing but always end on the positive.
Always end on that winning shot that shot that goes exactly where you want to go.
That's the one you want and that's the one you want to take home with you that's the one you want to
leave with.
So set that up in your mind so that you are finishing on that win even if it comes to practice sure
by a minute or two.
If you play it perfectly.
Better to end there and let your muscle memory do its thing than to go back and practice again.
It's also when you're practicing.
Use a metronome on a regular basis.
It's a great tool for basis to really develop their sense of time and their precision so that they can
play really tight in whatever setting they're in they can lock it in with a drummer they can lock it
in in a symphony or whatever the setting.
You have a solid understanding and feel for time that precision comes through practice with a metronome
particularly when you're practicing certain elements like shifting or building triads or elements that
might be a little difficult for the fingering.
The metronome helps you stay in time perfectly so that extra challenge will build into your hands.
This rhythmic intelligence is shifting so that you understand that for example when you're shifting
to a new position the shift happens fairly quickly.
You want to be able to shift quickly and then play perfectly in time so that people have this sense
of continuity and time has a real continuity and you're flowing through it at a beautiful and even tempo.
Keep the metronome as part of your regular practice.
The final component is to spend more time playing music.
Then you practice and think will come along perfect before you will see in the next lesson.