50 Quick music practice tips

Wow! When I started the Quick Tips section of the site I thought I might have 10 or maybe 20 quick and useful tips to help you all with your music practice. A few months later and we're at 50 already!!

That's basically enough for a new practice tip every week of the year!

These tips are meant for you to dip in and out of as a way of inspiring your practice or getting a new perspective on things. They apply equally to piano, guitar, violin, flute and horn. Whatever instrument you play you will find a useful tip here.

Do you have any quick music practice tips not in our list? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

1. Think Before You Start
2. Posture
3. The Right Frame Of Mind
4. Use Other Peoples Time
5. Develop A Schedule
6. Listen To Yourself
7. Don't Practise Wrong
8. Take A Break
9. Warm Up
10. Begin At The End
11. Clarity
12. Get Up Early
13. Know Your Piece
14. Rhythm Quick Fix
15. Think More
16. Look for right.
17. Exaggerate
18. Remember the 2 golden rules of sight reading
19. Mental Practice
20. Record Yourself
21. Be a student
22. Don't just read, act!
23. The only stupid question is an unasked question
24. Sight read everyday
25. The Right Way?
26. Musical Exercises
27. Listen properly
28. Be Better Today
29. Nine times wrong, one time right
30. If you can't hear it in your head you can't play it.
31. Practice out of tempo
32. The way you think is the way you practice
33. Spend time to notice your mistakes
34. Recreate your lesson
35. Continual improvement
36. Practising may be fun
37. What you can't hear you can't correct
38. Don't suppress your mistakes
39. After the fact adjustments
40. Perfect Imagination
41. Why practice?
42. Have Fun
43. Review goals for motivation
44. Stay Positive
45. Be your idol
46. Two Practice Rooms
47. Take responsibility for your own progress
48. The TV is not a practice aid!!
49. Practice the most important thing
50. End on a high note