Analysing Your Music Practice

Hi everyone,

In todays post I will be talking about analysing your own music practice.

Analysing your music practice means taking a mental note of all of the variables that comes with practicing and learning a musical instrument, and this could be over a number of different factors. There's also no right or wrong to analyse your own practice.

Benefits of Analysing your Practice

There's quite a few different ways that practice analysis will help you get the best out of your musical journey, as what it will enable you to do is figure out a range of different things when it comes to learning a musical instrument.

Analysing your Practice will help you to identify the following :-

- Any areas that you are struggling with, and that you may need additional help with

- Tricky rhythms

- Different tonal colours

- It will help you to identify the areas that you are playing well

Also, listening to a variety of different recordings will help you to understand what you are aiming for, and what you would like your interpretation to sound like. You can also pick and choose sections from the recordings that you have listened to, and then try to incorporate them into your piece/s that you are learning.

You can analyse the recordings, and then cross reference it with your playing and see if you like the interpretation that you have come up with. You can always mention it to your teacher that you have listened to a recording by x; and you would like a certain section to sound as close as possible to that recording. At least on a tonal level.

Please don't go overboard when analysing your practice, as this is mainly just areas that you might stumble across whilst you are practicing. It also doesn't happen in every practice session.