The Bulletproof Musician For More Effective Practice, Try…Longer…Pauses
Jun 11, 2023
07:19
When you to students practicing, there's one thing that is often conspicuously absent.
Silence.
You'll typically hear a good bit of repetition - but not a lot of quiet time or space between repetitions.
And why does this matter? Well, studies have found that too little space between repetitions - or too short an "inter-trial interval" can actually inhibit learning.
So...is there an optimal length of time to inject between repetitions?
Get all the nerdy details here:
For More Effective Practice, Try…Longer…Pauses
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