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Effective Practicing
As an instructor, I hear a lot of excuses for not practicing, and I can certainly see the "dark cloud of shame" that follows in a student whose "dog ate their exercise sheets", or "I had homework all week"...or just "I forgot..." I believe there's a simple solution to it all. When one makes the decision to learn drums and invests in the initial outlay of acquiring proper equipment, there's an expectation placed that "one must practice in a manner congruent to the space that this gear is taking up in the corner," and so the need to "practice an…
