Final Thoughts

Use the wisdom below to give your practice good direction.

Before each practice session read one of the following "thoughts" and focus on it throughout:

• Amateurs practise until they get it right; professionals practise until they can't get it wrong.
• Speed is a by-product of smoothness. Don't practise the scale, practise the smoothness.
• Think it ten times, then play it once.
• Only perfect practice makes perfect.
• Don't practice wrong.
• Several short sessions are better than one long one.
• Listen, listen, listen!
• Don"t practise things you can already play.
• Learn from your mistakes.
• Practise is the art of intelligent repetition.
• Really right, not just nearly right.