how to practice when you're tired 

“Your level is a direct reflection of your practice habits.” I’ve been needing to hear this! Thanks Rob.

One thing is that just before bed learning gets a retention boost, so it can be good to learn late!

I really enjoyed this video, my only question is how do you avoid burnout when you’re constantly practicing? I’ve had issues with this in the past and it has deterred me from doing the techniques mentioned in this video.

your tips are reeeeally helpful!! thank you!!! :)

Really needed som tips on this topic! I soon have admission tests for music college, and it's been a tough few weeks so I'm very tired. Good video as always!

Legend, so helpful

Yes I need this

I have been struggling to increase practice time - nice ideas on how to strategize and incentivize at the tired end of my day

Thanks thanks a lot !!

Very nice videos and channel, you deserve 10M subscribers

Dropping knowledge bombs

What program do you use to record yourself? Thank you so much for your great and excellent work!!!!

got here through the email haha. Thanks for this video anyways-my schedule is kinda screwed this year because of high school graduating exams to college :////// and I still need to practice lots

Watching this while procrastinating.

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Thank you Sir! I'm finding some great help here to fill in gaps in my classical training, which as a working jazz drummer I've never really got round to doing since my conservatory study. I've often thought to my classical teacher at the time: "How I wish I could ask him this or that today." I tried to download your list, but the LINK WAS NOT WORKING? Anyway, thanks!

I get practicing when you have free time but losing sleep to practice isn't a good idea. Your productive output will actually go down when your mentally drained and need sleep. If your not using sleep hours I can see the point. If your extremely tired a cat nap can do wonders with a cup of coffee when you wake. I wouldn't sleep longer than 45 min though.

I love your channel and this video is very interesting, but honestly I don't know if that's the case with drums, but if you practice tired, the probability of getting an injury is much higher (ruining your body and next practice sessions), so that would classify tired practice as risky and unhealthy in my book, don't you think ?

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The insomniac paradiddler.

If you don't get more than 5hrs (for most its 7hrs) of sleep the next day is not going to be productive at all. Your hippocampus can't work productively which really effects the ablilty for the brain to learn and retain information. Sleep is extremely important and trading it for unproductive practice is not smart. Not only that, you will find that your practice is harder and not leading anywhere. You will get frustrated with your own progress and more problems pop up in your playing. Infact studies show by missing out on important hours of sleep your brain's age doubles. This is advice from Graham John Liverpool Phil Principle. ^^^ Also can't really get behind the whole watching TV while practicing thing. It's just a waste of time as you aren't being mindful about the technical elements that you're trying to work on. Instead as you ignore your hands getting tence or losing sound quality while you're distracted by an episode of Netflix, you're not training the mind to be constantly aware of your movments. And if your mind can only focus for 20min that's fine. So take a 5 min break, chug water and begin another set of drills. It's like mindfulness meditation where one may focus intentionally on a specific task and experience the fullness of that task. When you get good at utilising this process you enter a FLOW state and that's a really good sign of productive practice. Also what's up with your recording system? Just get a handheld Zoom Mic, no fuss or the need for laptops and programs just push a button and record. This video is just extremely frustrating, did this kind of thing in my 2nd year of Conservatoire and had a horrible time. losing sleep leading to not practicing effectively which lead to performance anxiety. Until I met Graham for that important lesson I've only been improving.

This video goes far beyond practicing a musical instrument. Replace the word practice with a ton of different things and you can do those two using this exact same advice

There’s gonna be a lot of wgi members watching

Being a non music college student + being in an amateur orchestra makes this video so relevant and helpful.