There should come a point where you do not have to practice the things that were once difficult for you.

At that point it is time to move forward and begin practicing something else that IS difficult, the goal of course being to work that particular whatever to the point where it, too, is mastered.

It never ends, Joe, and IMO it shouldn't.

Of course, sometimes it is good to revisit the scale, etude or exercise previously mastered, as things learned from doing the new things may be re-applied to the old friend with gain.

One of the things I've noticed from working my "Senior Citizens Centers Music Ministry" is that the very old folks who play music seem to be still in possession of their mental faculties - and many can still sit a piano, or a guitar, or a drumkit, etc. and PLAY.

So as far as your question goes, my experience is, "make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold."

The difficult exercise of a time past, once you have it under your belt, is the warmup drill of the present.

And so it goes.


--Mac

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