I am interested to pick teacher's brains for any practice strategies they have used that have proved to be really successful. Any ideas gratefully received.

Try this site...The Practice Spot
Heaps of ideas there, a great site to browse.

The AB has a section called "Teaching Resources" with some excellent pointers on approaching practice however, the best I've seen so far is from "The Contemporary Keyboardist" by John Novello. World known professional musicians also use it; check it out.

QUOTE (helen1959 @ Apr 6 2004, 01:33 PM)

I am interested to pick teacher's brains for any practice strategies they have used that have proved to be really successful. Any ideas gratefully received.

[QUOTE] I find it very productive to start a practice session on a given piece/exercise/scale etc. by playing through the whole thing or the the whole of the section I'm working on, noticing what goes wrong. Then I go back and work slowly through the problem section(s), playing each section at least three times however slowly I need to to get it right in detail, always starting just before the bit that went wrong. Remember that a wrong note involves a wrong move to that note. When I have covered all the sections that needed that treatment I move on to something completely different and leave the first thing to "soak" until my next session.