Happy Labour Day Weekend!

Even though lessons don't start for another week, take the opportunity this week to experiment with your schedules and decide where practice is going to fit in to your daily routines.

The amount of time you set to practice isn't really the point here. Although the more we practice, the more we learn and the more we will accomplish and be able to do, however, deciding to one day practice for 3 hours isn't going to make any difference in the long run. Without a daily routine, we are setting ourselves up to make learning the violin or any skill for that matter, a lot harder than it needs to be.

5 minutes of focused practice everyday, as a starting point, is an incredible habit to form. If we can make this feel easy, then we can eventually turn that 5 minutes into 10. 10 minutes into 20. 20 minutes into 30. And so on.

So start easy this week. Start with the minimum and put all your effort into just finding the time and playing something simple and easy. The work will begin soon enough - then the real fun starts!

Have a good first week back at school. See you all soon!

Suddenly we are ready. Daily practice begins!

A post shared by Amy Rose (@amysviolinschool) on Sep 1, 2018 at 5:45am PDT