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Old 01-30-2023, 07:45 PM
fwellers fwellers is offline
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Default How many songs to practice

So my question is for learning songs.
I've finally come to a place where my choices for songs to learn is more in line with my abilities. I'm finding it easier to be able to get the songs under my fingers easier and quicker, but without any degree of mastery of them.
And I finally am beginning to realize a little more that I need to resist the temptation of speeding up until I stop making mistakes.

Because of this, and because of my intolerance for boredom, I have 4 or 5 songs in the oven right now in various stages of clumsiness.

My idea, and what I've been doing, is to play each song once or twice through, and then concentrate on the areas I suck the most at. With four songs this takes about an hour a day or so.

I think this may be a good number of songs to do at a time but thought I can ask here for thoughts or wisdom.

Noteworthy is the fact that I really haven't mastered any songs ever, in over 8 years of playing.

Thanks,
Floyd
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