Practice tips

• Practise regularly – 15 minutes a day is much, much better than two hours once a week.
• Warm up with scales and arpeggios each time you practise, make sure you don’t always play the easy ones though!
• Work at the tricky bits that you can’t play, not the easy bits you can.
• Practise small sections at a time, slowly at first.
• When pieces are more or less note perfect, play them right through and keep going, even if you make mistakes.
• Grab every opportunity to play to friends and family; this helps you to overcome performance nerves.
• The more you practise, the quicker you’ll progress.