The 80\/20 Principle is well know in the world of business: \u00e2\u20ac\u015320% of your customers create 80% of your profit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
But this universal \u00e2\u20ac\u0153law\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just apply to wealth creation. For example:\u00c2\u00a020% of the roads get 80% of the traffic. 20% of the runners take 80% of the trophies.<\/p>\n
This even works for learning violin. And the numbers are even more surprising:\u00c2\u00a0Only 20% of what your violin activities will produce fully 80% of your results. And it may even be more like 90\/10!<\/strong><\/p>\n And at the top of that 20% list is one glaringly overlooked item:<\/p>\n Violin Setup<\/strong><\/p>\n Meaning: what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on your violin, and how does it all fit your body?<\/p>\n This is fairly basic stuff, and a lot of it is just pure common sense.\u00c2\u00a0Still, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think of one other thing that can so quickly improve your playing.<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always wanted to play better, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not sure if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing it the right way”\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making up for lost time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re jealous of that beautiful tone that seems so easy for other violinist\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to improvise or play more advanced positions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Nothing will get you there faster than correctly setting up your violin.<\/p>\n Violin setup is truly your low hanging fruit. And that’s why I put violin setup in all of my violin teaching.<\/p>\n When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making up for lost time, you need a plan. A lifetime of work and much trial and error goes into creating a usable 80\/20 practice system. You could delve into dozens of pedagogy books, expensive lessons and master classes. You could make all the mistakes I made.<\/p>\n Or you could cut out the boring, pointless and ineffective busy work and learn from my my mistakes. Not to mention my wins! That would be a true 80-20 play, yes?<\/p>\n To Your Violin Journey! P.S. An 80\/20 strategy is especially important if you’ve been around the block a few times. I love working with adult students in Morro Bay, Los Osos and San Luis Obispo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 80\/20 Principle is well know in the world of business: \u00e2\u20ac\u015320% of your customers create 80% of your profit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But this universal \u00e2\u20ac\u0153law\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just apply to wealth creation. For example:\u00c2\u00a020% of the roads get 80% of the traffic. 20% of the runners take 80% of the trophies. This even works for learning violin. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[111,104,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dBill Alpert<\/p>\n