Musical Learning
When learning to play a musical instrument, what is your practice routine?
What is your practice routine when trying to learn a musical instrument? What was it when you were a novice, intermediate or expert? Did it change much? Do you focus on one piece of music at a time or several?
My instrument is the harmonica.
I’m playing the guitar now for over 4 years. The first trick is to be consistent and strict.
Consistent meaning: playing on a regular basis (preferably every day at least a little bit). Practice makes perfect 
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Strict meaning: don’t be too happy too quick and don’t take the easy way out.
As another Yahoo-user stated, starting really slow with a song or lick and gradually building up speed helps a lot too.
Another thing that helps, is to do some “warming-up” exercises. It could be anything, from a song that you know really well to some simple scales. This is particularly helpful when you’re learning an instrument that requires physical strenght (as in a guitar, drum, bass guitar, violin, etc…)
I think all of these things help regardless of being a novice, intermediate or expert. I believe that you never really master an instrument, you can get to a certain degree of mastery but you always keep on learning. You can never really say at a point that you can’t develop any further, there is always room for improvement.
Hope this helps (my first answer btw 
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