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Your position is well founded @BarbaraM
I copied this excerpt from today’s Monday Momentum email:
Science backs up the power of short, daily playing versus longer playing sessions that are infrequent or scattered.
For instance, a 2021 study from the National Institutes of Health found that taking short breaks between playing sessions allows your brain to “replay” and reinforce skills up to 20 times faster than if you cram all your practice into one long session.
Similarly, sports science shows that weightlifters who trained twice daily for 15 minutes improved more quickly than those who did one long session per week-proving that frequency trumps duration.
And when it comes to guitar, a study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that musicians who played for 10 minutes daily made 30% faster progress in skill acquisition compared to those who played infrequently but for longer periods.
So, by keeping your sessions brief and consistent, you’ll build muscle memory, finger dexterity, and rhythmic intuition-all essential for learning and playing “Johnny B. Goode’s” infectious groove.
You know the whole, “how do you eat an elephant… one bite at a time.” adage?
Well, apparently there’s science that backs that up… although I think we all know that if we were to eat an elephant we wouldn’t necessarily need science to tell us to take one bite at a time.
Anyways… all I’m trying to say is give yourself some grace and realize that if you are consistent the progress will come.
With that let’s duckwalk through another wonderful week of fun, focus, and progress.
Cheers!!!
– Tony