"instrumental practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of practicing or playing a musical instrument. Example: My son's teacher stresses the importance of consistent instrumental practice in order for him to improve his skills on the piano.
The first printed book on musical instruments, Sebastian Virdung's Musica getutscht (1511; "Music Translated into German"), contains woodcuts of instruments and some indications of instrumental practice and technique.
Their instrumental practice averaged ∼1 hr each day.
Recently, many studies have focused on musicians' brains, which have revealed that significant structural change was induced by instrumental practice [7], [8].
The honing of visual pattern recognition and pattern matching skills resulting from instrumental practice and notation reading may explain our surprising results on the Raven's Progressive Matrices, since many of the items on this test can be solved using a visual pattern recognition/matching strategy.
While it may sound strange, singing or instrumental practice that strengthens the throat muscles will firm the tissue of your throat and mouth.
Even if your eventual goal is to become a rock drummer, the fundamentals offered in school band are quite valuable, not to mention that you have access to the school's instrumental resources, practice spaces, and teachers.
To assess how much of a public health problem emotional and instrumental feeding practices are, we explored the use of these feeding practices in a sample of Dutch mothers regarding their child's food intake between main meals.
To assess how much of a public health problem emotional and instrumental feeding practices are, it is important to know the effects of these practices on foods actually eaten between main meals, but it might be even more important to first examine the actual use of these potential parental risk behaviors and the type of foods that are offered in this context within specific populations.
The research questions were: (1) How many mothers use emotional and/or instrumental feeding practices?
There are widely held beliefs that emotional and instrumental feeding practices are undesirable parental behaviors [ 12].
The evidence that emotional and instrumental feeding practices are indeed undesirable has been inconsistent.
