Monday, March 24, 2014

Slow, Smart Practice

Itzhak Perlman 

I LOVE this video! I have students (and I've been guilty of this same thing) that love to play fast and want to play the entire piece and call it "practicing." While there is a time and a place for this kind of practice, it usually won't get you very far. In order to truly know how to express his music, one needs to incorporate SMART practice. What is smart practice? Mr. Perlman will help us understand what this means. One of things that really stuck out to me in this video, is when he says, "If you learn something slowly, you'll forget it slowly. If you learn something quickly, you'll forget it quickly."