From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs
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How to practice
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs
How to practice
- I'd like to talk now a little bit about practicing. About how to practice; how to get the most out of, out of the limited time that all of us have to spend with our instruments. I'm sure you all have regular lives that a mandolin might not be the thing you do for 24 hours a day and so there's always that time crunch. How in the world am I going to find time to do all the things I want to do on this instrument? And, a couple of things come to mind. One is, I always leave my mandolin out where it's sitting out where I can see it, rather than in the case, under the bed. Just so that, as you walk by you see it there sitting there calling to you. That's one. I like to have a station where my practice always takes place at the time, which I think is very helpful. To always have the same place. So it's not this gigantic ritual of having to get the case out, go find the chair, go get the music stand, go get the tuner and the metronome, near your computer and set this whole thing up. So…
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