Wait, hold on….
Can you practice too much?
Usually we try to practice more, not less.
More practice time *is* better in general. It will make your sound improve sooner.
However, if you’re practicing too much material in a session, there is large risk that you will not master anything.
Let’s say you’re learning ten songs at once. So you practice all ten songs within your practice session.
If you’re practicing for one hour, you’ll probably use 10-20 minutes to warm up. And you’re likely going tow ork on other exercises for another 20 minutes or so.
If you warm up for ten minutes and practice scales, harmony, and exercises for twenty minutes, you’ve got 30 minutes left (for an hour of total practice).
You can probably play one song without stopping in about three minutes. That means you would play through each song once…. and then the hour of practice time would be up.
You might memorize the songs. But how deep will your understanding of each song be?
In contrast, if you spent 30 minutes on one song, how well would you know it after a few days of doing that consistently? That sounds almost like an overkill amount of time to learn one song, no? So you would almost definitely have it memorized and you would be pretty comfortable with it.
How much time could you spend experimenting on that song with harmony, rhythm, etc?
Could you learn it in all twelve keys and then be able to play pieces of it in other songs?
-Neal