Technical exercise. How long for one exercise? 10 minutes? 20? 30?

[musicioso]

Hallo guys

When i start practising i do some technical exercises first. Scales, arpeggios, scales in double thirds and sixth. Sometimes i do some hanon exercises, or sclales in octaves and many new things that i find.

My question is what is the most effective time for one simgle exercise. Sometimes i am so patient that i could spend 2 hours doing one single exercise. But is that useful? Or should i do that for just 10 minutes? Or 20?


Please, share your thoughts. Thanks in advance

Hug

[brogers70]

I think it's impossible to answer your question, except to say that it depends on why you are doing the technical exercise. Whatever your goal in doing the exercise is, you do it until you see a day's worth of progress to that goal, whether that means doing awesome_o's ABC exercise for 3 minutes, or spending a couple of hours doing slow motion scales. Only you know what your goals are and how you are progressing. I don't think there's a formula based on minutes per day that is worth anything.

[Bob]

I'd lean toward doing the same technique, but in different keys.  Easier to repeat that way, mentally.  More useful since it covers more keys, more patterns.