ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of practice behaviors of college piano majors. The participants were 18 piano majors from a university in Busan, Korea. Each student`s practice was videotaped(30 minutes each, total of 270 minutes) and used for this study. The number of practice frames, mean durations of practice frames, the number of performance trials, the number of performance trials per frame, and mean performance trial duration were calculated(Maynard, 2006). Based on this, students` practices were determined into one of four categories of practicers(Rohwer & Polk, 2006), and the practice behaviors of each student were analyzed(Dukeetal., 2009). As a result, the number of practice frames, mean durations of practice frames, the number of performance trials, the number of performance trials per frame, and mean performance trial duration were different among students, but there were no significant differences associated with students` performance levels. Most students` practices were analytic and reactive. Top-ranked students practiced with inflection and repeated target passages until the error was corrected and the passage was stabilized.

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