Practice Makes Permanent

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Musostudy

Intended Learning Outcome:

To be aware of the purpose of practising and to identify practice goals

Tool:

This expression demonstrates how we become proficient at what we repeatedly practise. By analysing practice regimes we can identify the areas where the level of challenge isn’t sufficient and skills which are already competent are being repeated rather than adding new, more challenging, exercises.

Activity:

Discuss the benefits of having a structured practice routine.

Students describe and analyse what and how they currently practise (whether in a practice regime or as a warm-up before a performance).

Ask them to identify the riffs/licks etc. that they always repeat and consider how challenging they find them.

Discuss what the next goals in their practice could be and ask students to devise a new routine incorporating these new challenges.

How:

Examples:

Large Group Teaching:

This can work well with large groups.

Online Teaching:

Success:

Students are successfully adding new, challenging, elements to their practice.

Next Steps:

Review this TLA throughout the year to help students continue to review and revise their practice.

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