Binder Control and the practice of Practicing
Published: Jul 12, 2017 | Category: Music Learning , Self Teaching materials, Organization
Binder Control and the practice of Practicing
? A few thoughts about how to organize your binder. It will help organize our thoughts and our practice time.
What would be a "balanced diet" to growth healthy musical bones consist of?
Warm up/conditioning
Theory
Technique
Rhythm
Ear training. (intervals/singing)
Songs(sorted by keys and or titles)
Creativity/Original music
Goofing off, just plain fun stuff.
Many activities can combine many of those elements. Like playing (technique of strumming or finger-style) :& understanding (Theory of chord relationships) the chord progression of a song you like with a metronome (Rhythm). Then sing the melody while understanding how it realtes to the chords (ear training ). You can hum the roots of each chord, the thirds, the 5ths...
Where am I going with this? Well , lets have a binder that represents and supports our practice.
I suggest dividers by keys, by Subject. Each key could have its own song section.
Here are a couple of links for uncommon binder sizes (14x11) that can accommodate both vertical and horizontal (landscape) formats:
Binder choice 2 Binder choice 1
Happy filing,
Best, Bertrand
? A few thoughts about how to organize your binder. It will help organize our thoughts and our practice time.
What would be a "balanced diet" to growth healthy musical bones consist of?
Warm up/conditioning
Theory
Technique
Rhythm
Ear training. (intervals/singing)
Songs(sorted by keys and or titles)
Creativity/Original music
Goofing off, just plain fun stuff.
Many activities can combine many of those elements. Like playing (technique of strumming or finger-style) :& understanding (Theory of chord relationships) the chord progression of a song you like with a metronome (Rhythm). Then sing the melody while understanding how it realtes to the chords (ear training ). You can hum the roots of each chord, the thirds, the 5ths...
Where am I going with this? Well , lets have a binder that represents and supports our practice.
I suggest dividers by keys, by Subject. Each key could have its own song section.
Here are a couple of links for uncommon binder sizes (14x11) that can accommodate both vertical and horizontal (landscape) formats:
Binder choice 2 Binder choice 1
Happy filing,
Best, Bertrand