My practices are fairly structured I suppose. Every once in while when tired of the routine I just "noodle", and normally some song ideas come from those freeform sessions. But the point is that unless I'd done the boring practices a number of occasions previously, the freeform version probably would not have any value. As for the more routine stuff, I probably do half scales and left-hand, and then half application-specific. Stg like that.

Paul Ryan
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