{"id":8,"date":"2026-10-11T00:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/how-much-should-a-beginner-practise\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:58:34","slug":"how-much-should-a-beginner-practise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/how-much-should-a-beginner-practise\/","title":{"rendered":"How much should a beginner practise?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regular short practice helps new players more than one long session before the next lesson. These are good starting points for the first months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Young children (6 to 8):<\/strong> 5 to 10 minutes on most days, ideally with a parent nearby.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Older children and teens:<\/strong> 15 to 20 minutes on most days.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Adult beginners:<\/strong> 15 to 30 minutes, whenever it fits, even three times a week helps.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Start with the hard bit:<\/strong> spend the first few minutes on the passage your teacher marked, then play something you enjoy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep the instrument somewhere you can see it, and practise at the same time each day so it becomes a habit. If practice turns into a fight, tell your teacher: they can change the pieces or the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little and often beats one long session a week. Here is a simple routine for children and adult beginners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-cadenza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}