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A reader recently wrote in the following question: I used to play classical guitar, then stopped for a couple of years, and am now trying to teach myself jazz guitar. Here’s the thing: I’m a college student. Between classes, homework, and work, it’s hard to get in practice time. What would you recommend working on the most if I only have maybe 30-45 minutes a day? Sometimes it’s difficult knowing where to start/what to do I think most people can relate to this reader’s question. Being crunched for time is just how it is these days. Not to worry. You can still make huge positive leaps in your playing with very little time. Scope and depth The concept of scope and depth relates to how broad and deep a selection of anything may be. With regards to practicing, scope has to do with how many topics we choose to cover during any given practice session and depth describes how deeply we study each of these particular topics. Most people’s practice sessions tend to be broad in scope and shallow in depth. For instance, they’ll attempt to tackle tone exercises, dozens of scales in all keys, five new tunes, and what ever else they can cram into an hour! On top of that, the method they approach each of these topics with may be completely inefficient. For example, most people tend to learn new tunes from play-along recordings as opposed to learning them off the record, or they make one of these other 6 disastrous mistakes. A person who practices this way feels good about what they have done because they think they’ve put in their dedicated time into improving, however, sheer time in the practice room does not measure how much that practice benefits you. Let me repeat that: Time in does not directly correlate to benefit obtained. To have truly beneficial practice, scope must decrease and depth must increase. In an interview with Marian Mc Partland, Bill Evans expressed: “ If you.
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