What do you do to practise for your instrument everyday?

I usually just kick of with Hanon and scales for ten or so minutes. Then get to learning pieces and the such.

hmm......when i'm in school,our class tunes and warm up for a few mins,then we work on the peices,scales,thirds and other stuff until the end of class.......

when i'm home,i'll play my keyboard and cello for an hour...........but i only practice peices on my cello if i dont know it,since its never taken me more than a week to learn a peice since i started playing. ^^

Hanon for 15 minutes

I do 8-5's for ten minutes and long tones for half an hour. Then I practice my assigned music and then I play Jazz and Anime music. Tank is so hard.

Tank?

I practice Chopin's etudes

Warm up with a 5 min improv on piano, then start practicing songs from my teacher.. i take like a break every 15 mins, for a 3 mins break, then im back on practicing again.

Start with the places I need to work on in my pieces, then I play for an hour straight. Take a break or two if I need it. Then keep practicing after that if I can.

I love to warm up with songs from the Final Fantasy piano collections. Then I get to work on my assigned pieces. Although come to think of it, I'm playing "The Castle" and "Secret Library Daguerro," both from FF, for a recital soon... so my warmups ARE my some of my assigned pieces. ^_^

Well for me it depends, sometimes i just play all th scales a few times, or hanon for about 15 min, or just improvise something, on the piano. And then i'll either get on with my composing or a piece.

I just start playing whatever's in my head and take it from there.

Warm up with a 5 min improv on piano, then start practicing songs from my teacher.. i take like a break every 15 mins, for a 3 mins break, then im back on practicing again.
I should try doing that; I find that I can't practice longer than a half hour without being at least a little distracted, and I cannot manage even three hours at the moment.

I wish I had an actual set routine; I've got too much to do to practice at the same time every day. Random rehearsals and concerts and things occur, well, randomly, and destroy my schedule. <_<

Well.. if you don't have anything to do (homework jobs stuff, whatever) thats what i ususally do.. but if you have something to do, do all your other priorties first, then music. It works out well. you wont be distracted (mentally), so you can keep on practicing as your fullest.

Well, yeah, time constraints can be a problem, but too bad. Homework can be done during lunch or in the morning before school if it has to be.

But I do like the idea of a three minute break every fifteen minutes; I've tried longer breaks and longer intervals of playing, but I have some spinal problems (And too short of an attention span) that sort of kills most practice attempts after a while.

Ahh.. well, that is a problem.

Hopefully I will steal your solution and it will work.

heh,

whats hanon?

yea same. idk what that is either?

improvising?
scales?
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usually i start with a 3 octave scale. first one note at a time, then slurring 2, then 4, all the way up to 24 on a bow.

Hanon is a book where they have these pages of exercises, little warm-up things.

Kind of like Etudes?

They're not songs. They're just exercises. Monotonous exercises.

Alright, thanks

They're not songs. They're just exercises. Monotonous exercises.
When I was little, my teacher started me on Hanon... I never got through the first book. Of course that was because I didn't want to play the piano to begin with, but... I have bad memories of Hanon.

They are like etudes, actually, but less melodic.