Where To Find The Right Source of Inspiration and Motivation While Playing an Instrument

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It is in your pocket.

As an amateur violinist, I love to practice at least thirty minutes per day. That is the time I have for practising. Sometimes I don’t have the time to practice because of all the work I have to do.

So, in that amount of time, I have to find the right inspiration and motivation to play the violin. What happens when you have no inspiration and what happens when you don’t have any motivation?

Then practicing would be very hard in these thirty minutes practice session of mine. But I like challenges and love to see what I can do better for myself.

Yes, there are days that I don’t have any inspiration and/or motivation to practice. So, where do I find the inspiration and where do I find the motivation, then?

It is just in your pocket. Really, believe me. It is in your pocket. You have to let it slide in your system and think about different things.

When you don’t find the inspiration, go outside, walk three times through your street. What do you see in the streets? What did you do while walking through the streets and looking at the tree? How did the tree smell? What melody of your piece you are practicing comes to your mind while passing the tree and smelling the tree? What thought do you get?

When you bring your children to school, look at what you see through the way while walking to your children's’ school. What do you feel about seeing the house, gardens, fields, flowers? To what music passage in the piece you're playing does this walk remind you?

When you’re on your work, you hear people talking about everything related to work. What do you hear? What do you think when you’re listening to them? Is there a passage in a piece you are playing related to what you are hearing right now in your meeting?

Do something different than playing the piece you have to play. Like doing the laundry, doing the dishes, helping you children out with homework, or even call your best friend. Ask for a pep talk.

Last but not least, just listen to the piece you are playing, listen to other music you love, even another genre that has nothing to do with the music you are playing. What do you hear? What feel? What do you imagine about the piece or the music you are playing.

Write everything down in a notebook to remember for another moment and to improve yourself.

What helps me, is writing on the music sheet — at the place of the passage — what I am thinking about and what I feel and not to forget, what I imagine playing that passage.

Once, I attended the masterclass of Maxim Vengerov where he mentioned a passage climbing of the Chinese Wall. I love that and have implemented that into my habit of making music.

More about me.