How To Perform Valuable Study/Practice?

[wildsoft]

hi all
i'm an autodidact trumpet player, have no formal education in music at all.. recently i just realize how important to learn the music theory, so i decide to learn by myself, because in my country there's so rare to find trumpet mentor...i've been routine exercising trumpet minimal an hour/day since i bought my first trumpet 5 month ago.. however, i already know how to play trumpet for years ago, but without music theory at all..

i believe "Practice is a must,More Practice is a worth ,but valuable practice is a key"
i take practice practice practice, but how to make the practice is more valuable for music newbie like me? for better understanding in theory also in skill itself, i know there's no shortcut, but a good method somehow is a 'shortcut' too

thanks for sharing

[sweets]

Yeah man, stick with it.

You're right that it's not how much you practice, it's how and what you practice to make the most use of your time.

I hear Wynton Marsalis practices an average of 2 hours a day and Allen Vizzutti practices about 4 hours a day. Both are awesome trumpet players and I think anyone that wants to be a professional like them needs to put in at least this amount of time daily.