Why do we hope for individual practice from our singers?
In the point of individual practice to move forward? I don’t think so?
I actually think the most important thing is to make sure they don’t go backwards. I can accomplish plenty in two hours a week, as long as everything we accomplish in rehearsal is still present when we meet a week later.
It’s when that progress dissipates over the ensuing seven days that we struggle. Taking the first 25% of rehearsal to get back to where we ended is a big barrier to rehearsal growth.
And so we ask for regular individual practice. Not so we grow between rehearsals, but simply so we don’t sink.