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Tips for studying a game ?

#1
A lot of people told me to study masters games. So I writed down a few of the best games I know (simple enough for me to understand), and try to play these again. But I'm kind of stuck, I don't know what exactly I can study and am not confident (and a bit overwhelmed).

I'm a musician ; the best way I found to great improvement in practice was replaying master's phrases until I can really play it like it's my phrase, my notes, with the master's influence and my touch.

So I figured for chess it can be true ; but since I'm new, I can't figure a way, or a system to study chess with the same efficiency I study music. (Perhaps it's because I practice music for 23 years and am a new chess player. The habits and knowledge aren't the same obviously)
#2
I wanted to say : "to study chess games", not "to study chess", I already have good advice for other chess fields.

And I would like to precise that I was pretty happy to stay rated around 1100 until I began to fall and fall under 1000. And no matter what I don't win my games these days (So I play less and wait until I'm confident both in studying and playing, I think it's useless to play when you don't have this confidence but maybe I'm wrong.)
#3
"Irving Chernev - Logical Chess: Move By Move" is a true classic in this subject, I highly recommend to everybody. There are 33 very instructive master games in it, and it's explains the logic behind every move.
#4
Emmanuel, it takes a lot of time. Don't fix yourself on the rating. There are always fluctuations. Always keep a constructive and analytic approach, and most of all take pleasure in what you study. A good book that i'm reading now is Chess Strategy by E. Lasker.
In all fields is better a little bit of focalised practice than too much time spent studying. And remember, this is a game, anyway, a very serious and creative one. That's my view on the subject.
#5
If I were you, I would focus on tactics and safety issues first. Check out Dan Heisman's articles on the subject.
#9
For: emmanuelnkil reference game lichess.org/N1V8Ernc#10
Your next move, move 7 is a simple blunder to fix.
The knight was relatively pinned.
Step 1: The next time you want to move a chess piece, start by imagining it is no longer on the chessboard and mentally note what your opponent could then do to your pieces.
Step 2: Then imagine it is where you want it next and mentally note what your opponent could do differently now that the piece is at a different location.

Two pieces that line up in a direction causes trouble. They form a battery with lots of power on a particular square. You cannot disregard a battery of pieces attacking a particular square.

Maybe you might like to study from wiki sites. Search for chess principles, chess tactics, and chess strategies. You might want to apply the words of wisdom that the masters have been passing on for generations for positional play.

Learn the three golden principle rules for the opening and apply them in the trainning section lichess.org/training/opening

Learn all the tactical motifs will help you create combinations.

You start winning games when you have learned mating patterns.

One thing is for sure you must review your blunders or you will continuously repeat the same blunders.

You might learn something new by joining this team lichess.org/team/chesscademy
#10
They do recommend study grandmasters games
but Im not sure if Its the best idea if You are about 1000 elo,
I dont want to sound arrrogant but I think playing at the early stages of the game, Its the fastest way to learn.
I dont know if You have played in another site before but here You have only played 199 games,
so I would not worry much about the subtle play of grandmasters and would keep playing to eliminate simple tactical shots of my game.

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