We are all bound and glued to our phones and OTT platforms. We spend an average of 3-4 hours on our phones consistently, and we are so accustomed to watching back-to-back series, shows, or movies on OTT platforms. If you calculate all those hours, it will be more than 25 hours in a week, which is 14-15% of the weekly 168 hours. It’s a massive % which is killing us slowly where we don’t even realize here the point is not to have entertainment if you divert those hours to learning your music just 3 hours per day for 5 days in a week, you would spend almost 15+ hours in learning which will help you progress 10% on your musical journey every week, it just the choice what we have to do every week.
Three hours a day is too much. We don’t have time, but actually, it is simple if you structure done, block 30 minutes of slots in the morning, probably start with 1 in the early morning hours when your mind, body, and soul are fresh to grasp the information all you need is to wake up 30-40 minutes early from your regular time to squeeze this time slot, so before you ready for your day for your school or office you are already done with one slot of learning which is intense.
The 2nd slot would be when you commute to the office. If you are not driving to the office at the time, you can watch a video of the piece or the song that you are learning instead of using mindless social media feeds; this will help you improve your learning skills, give focus on every line how the pianist is playing the songs or guitarist is strumming the pattern or the vocalist is emphasizing the lines with emotions, this mindful learning of 30 minutes will give enormous results over the long run, so your 2nd slot for the day which is 1 hour already done.
The third slot of your learning is to cut your lunch break to 10-15 minutes. For another 30 minutes, you continue to watch a video or practice the difficult passages or pieces that you are aspiring to learn or even learn a simple concept of Ear Training, Scales, and arpeggios will help you to learn and progress in your learning, so by now your 1.5 hours of education is already completed.
The return travel will give you another 30 minutes on the learning as the traffic is hectic, and you will find some time to explore what you were learning in the morning; you can continue to watch those videos till you finish you have a chance then you can as well make some notes or pointers to verify later. So, by now, you have already completed 2 hours of your learning, and you will be happy and satisfied with your efforts and the rest of your travel. You can enjoy your win by watching social media feeds!
Last hour of the day, after spending time with family and a meal before you go to bed, you will easily have 1 hour time; this hour is the crucial hour where you will practice what you have learned in those videos, the theory knowledge now you will implement them into the practice you will practice all the complex phrases of the pieces, scales, arpeggios and songs which you had watched them during your morning and afternoon hours, this will immensely help you to structure your learnings and progress will be immense over some time. So, your 3 hours of education are done, and we didn’t even realize it. Start your journey today!
The weekend is perfect. You get a solid bonus of 10 hours only for Saturday and Sunday if you can increase your 3 hours of learning to 5 hours of learning every day, Saturday and Sunday, preferably keep it practical and don’t know anything new from the course or YouTube you are following instead these 2 days should be dedicated to master what you have been exploring from Monday to Friday! Take the time to master them and ask your teacher or trainer to guide you through the topics; this way, you can master your skills every week.
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