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<p>I would think that is just about ideal, and quite do-able.</p>
<p>As to my point that a couple of hours a day additional practice time when one is already practicing for hours a day, or a couple of extra semesters of practice, I was making the assumption that the student is not in any way “behind” other music students. Just from reading the various threads on this forum, it seems that many, if not most, music students have many years of music experiance before they enroll in college as music majors. There is something called the “law of dimishing returns” which essentially states that at some point, additional anything will start to accomplish less and less. Now if that music student didn’t start playing a musical instrument until the first day of college, then certainly an extra semester or two or an extra couple hours a day may be highly beneficial. But if a music major already had 10-15 years of lessons before he entered college, I would seriously doubt that another year would make that much difference. Someone with 4 years of music study may be significantly better than someone with 3 years, but it doesn’t seem to me that someone with 19 years of lessons would be that much better than someone with 18 years of lessons.</p>