Time Management Breakdown

Sometimes, when a student tells me they and their family are TOO busy for them to havepracticed all week (for several weeks in a row), my dry erase marker comes out and we go to the white board. It’s time for a time management breakdown.

There, I break down 24 hours into minutes. We determine how many hours they sleep, are in school, travel to and fro, watch television, do homework, etc.

Then I break those hours into minutes and subtract them from the 24 hour minutes.

When they see, in black and white (or whatever color I happen to be writing with on that day) how many “free” minutes are available, and how minuscule 10, 15, 20 or even 30 minutes are compared to how many minutes are in each and every day, suddenly they realize how empty their excuse is.

THEN…

because I like to drive home my point as hard as I can, I show them how many minutes are in a week between lessons.

Use the “too busy” excuse one too many times and you, too, will get a lesson in arithmetic, a time management breakdown, and the limit to my patience.

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Some people ask why should I care if they practice or not. Hmmm… well, I’m getting paid to teach them how to play an instrument or use their voice properly; how to decipher the code and language of music theory (or facts, as I call them). I care because what they learn in my studio, or don’t learn, reflects on me, the school, them and their parents. Whatever I can do to drive home the importance of practice — even if I have to give the time lesson to the parent(s) — then that’s what I will do.

I want my students to succeed and achieve the best of their ability. If I can do that, no matter how great, or horrible, musicians they become, I’ll know I gave it my best shot. The very worst thing a teacher or parent can do is set a child up for failure. Not insisting on regular practice does exactly that.

How *do* you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.