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The article discusses ways of practicing jazz music. According to the author, the aim of practicing is to expand the tools available for use when improvising. It explains the significance of staying focused on the specified task and avoid confusing the types of practice with a creative artistic statement used during a performance. It outlines the techniques include in playing musical instruments such as familiarizing the arpeggios, scales and technical exercises. It stresses that the only way to be certain that an idea can be played cleanly and effectively every time is to have it entirely memorized.

The article relates the author's experience on how she made the first lessons for her beginning students easier and valuable. According to the author, the first methods that she taught to her students aimed at making them feel comfortable holding the instrument and produce a decent sound. Then, aside from discussing to them about good posture and breathing, the author demonstrated to them the proper embouchure for each instrument.

The article discusses the need of practice for learning music. As mentioned, it is impossible to place our instruments or our music under our pillows at night and learn the music. It suggests breaking things down to their simplest parts while learning our instruments and music in order to remove complexity and bring ease to the process of learning.

The article offers insights of music tutors on the advantages and disadvantages on encouraging the enthusiasm of young children for music. Topics discussed include the acknowledgment of the environment surrounding the child, provision of gratification to activate curiosity, and guidance on the proper holding of the musical instrument.

The article reflects the views of author on practicing music at home, with music rehearsal, and music lessons. Topics include musicians spend more time at home with the musical instrument and the rights as a musician; home workout takes place with home office instead of the office; and court ruling case of a professional trumpeter.

The article presents views of the article author on the difficulties encountered by students while practicing music. Most students practice in conditions that are probably less than ideal, and many ignore the advice of the teacher. Today children wake up to a radio alarm clock followed by "Good Morning America" on television, traffic noise, siblings screaming, and cats scrapping. Probably the biggest practicing obstacle for students and professionals is apartment living. The worst experience happened to a long-time faculty member at the music school Juilliard who was preparing for a Carnegie Hall recital on a hot day and left an apartment window open. A rock flew through the window and crashed on the keyboard with a threatening note tied around it. However, it is amazing that some of the best students have poor instruments and noisy homes, but they work hard and have a desire to learn. Many quickly learn how to maximize practice time and not waste it, accomplishing in one hour what others do in eight. In the end it is not the number of hours students practice, it is how hard they concentrate that matters. If they concentrate hard enough, all the perils of practice disappear.