How to practice in my way

How to practice in my way
I am learning the double bass and studied when I was ten yeas ago. I had like to share some experience for you to how to practice. Double bass is belong to the strings. The different between the brasses and strings is strings need more practice to improve the ability of each finger. So how many times you spend for every day is the most important. How can we improve the efficiency, and use less time for practice? I can give three suggestions.
Firstly, you need make a good habit when you practice, and you must think how to start before you play. Such as you can breathe in every start, the breathing is very important to play well for you. This is a good habit, It can be a signal to tell the audients I am starting play, and also can tell our self, I need value all the notes after this breath. The breathing is relationship to the technologies. So you must keep this habit.
Secondly, try to find the fun from the each piece, that can make you more passing. Whether you like this piece, it all have their own melody, if you do not like it, it just belong to you do not know the real mean of this piece, so you should know the each pieces’ background and the composers’ main idea, than put your passing and imagine to the practice, it is more helpful to find the fun of each piece.
Thirdly, Listen some recording whatever which piece you are playing. Because you did not know how is your song? It is good song or just a bad song. Listen to recording or search the related information about the recordings online. Listen thorough and repeated, in same time analyze how the players perform, Try to learn from them which you like it. After that, try to apply the technologies studied in the normal practice in order to control.
The three points are very important to practice and improve yourself. Those are the requirements to learn the music. I hope all of those are much helpful for you.