Piano Practice

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Could anyone advise me please how much piano practice a day/week should my primary age child be doing?

TIA

MY DC were told recommended to do 15-20 minutes every day, one day chords, the next time pieces of music.

They were set so much homework it became a real chore and now wont go near the piano

Ok so I was thinking of encouraging 10 mins in the morning and 10 mins in the evening. And that matches what you were 'advised'!!!!

Think I'll encourage that, but be aware that it could turn into a chore.

Mine do about 10-20 mins a day, more if ds1 has an exam coming up (he has grade3) , less for ds3 who has only just started. Longer at weekends with dh. Less than 10 if they can get away with it!

That's good I seem to be in the right area time wise. Let's just hope my ds agrees

10 minutes on 4 days/week.

Ragged do you do alternate days or not at weekends?

def every day if you can.

DD is supposed to try and do 10-15 minutes a day, but hav to admit hat we do miss out the odd day esp over weekends when we go away, etc.

We have a big 10 minute sand timer - once she has practised her set stuff for that time then she can use the piano to play whatever she wants.

20 mins a day.

DD got up to grade 2 by the end of primary. We also used to call it 5 a day, as she had to do 5 lots of the things she was working on that week and that seemed to be more acceptable to her even though it still took approx 20 mins.

Is it better to do little and often, rather than big chunks of time, but less often?

Sand timer good idea but I can see mine 'wasting' time as sand went down.

I like the 5 times of each thing, as that of course will cause the time to naturally extend as the pieces increase in length.

Better to do little and often [another music teacher] as it helps to embed it in the brain somehow. If you do a big chunk on one day, try to back it up with some 5 minute chunks on other days. Doing short chunks and concentrating really well also leads to less bad habits than doing big chunk and being slumped, doing for the sake of the time etc. If they only "have" to do a little bit, they might accidentally get absorbed and find themselves doing longer without realising as they won't resent it so much! Love the sand timer though.

Crikey, DD insists she was told just twice a week for 10 minutes each time.
She is only in silly little group lessons for 20 minutes each time. It's more like taster sessions, really.

DS (9) 10-20 minutes a day plus a bit of playing favourite pieces for fun.

DD(6): just begun. 10 mins, most days.

mine never did more than 10 mins a few times a week at that age, with longer sessions if taking an exam imminently. One gave up and one continued and got more diligent about practising at secondary school (at around the stage when the music gets more interesting to play). Neither would ever practise scales though.

Actually remembering back it was quite often 20-30 mins once a week just before the lesson when they realised they'd not done any up to that point - but this isn't recommended, just the way it often seems to work out.