Practice is going OK, and I’m seeing results, but I am beginning to mull some questions over:
Warm-Up?
Scales, arpeggios etc.? I’m not doing any.
Should I be?
So far I’ve been content to assume that the studies themselves, by their nature, will be sufficient.
One size fits all?
The studies are all very different, and I am starting to think that applying the same practice approach to them all, even though it is the easiest way from the point of view of self-discipline, may not be the most efficient path from A to B. I’m trying to learn these pieces well, not just adequately. So I need to find the best way of using the practice time.
The best answer I can think of is to have a notebook, and fill it in as I think a good teacher would. I will implement that right away.
Impatience
That little devil keeps popping his head up. I must remember that I’ve only been going a week, and things are going well. The best advice I can give myself is to keep things as they are for a period of, say, 4 weeks – which was the gap, incidentally, between my lessons when I reached the more advanced stages when I was young – and have a proper review of what’s working and what’s not.
It’s too early to be making changes.