{"id":7601,"date":"2012-05-15T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:06:56","slug":"on-practicing-a-guide-to-good-work-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/15\/on-practicing-a-guide-to-good-work-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"on practicing &#8211; a guide to good work habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article on what makes for good practice habits (which has been making the rounds of musicians on Facebook today). It&#8217;s well-written, and applicable to everyone, regardless of their playing level.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/how-many-hours-a-day-should-you-practice\" target=\"_blank\">How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice?<\/a> @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/www.bulletproofmusician.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Bulletproof Musician<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t do it right, you&#8217;ll end up like this guy:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9DbUPjEbIvA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article on what makes for good practice habits (which has been making the rounds of musicians on Facebook today). It&#8217;s well-written, and applicable to everyone, regardless of their playing level. How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice? @ The Bulletproof Musician And if you don&#8217;t do it right, you&#8217;ll end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1YB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14287,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/26\/a-few-more-things-ive-learned\/","url_meta":{"origin":7601,"position":0},"title":"A few more things I&#8217;ve learned","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Several\u00a0years back, I wrote a post\u00a0or two about things that I wished I'd known when I was a younger musician \u2013 as a student, freelancing, and the first few years in a professional orchestra. 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