Learning Goals
Applying the lessons learned in Emotional Preparation and How Your Brain Works, we are going to learn how to study-practice music the right way. It is critically important that you fully understand the simple, but powerful, concepts presented here for at least two reasons. First, they will instill study-practice skills/habits that will transforming endless frustration into a lifetime of unfolding joy. Second, they inform the Piano-ology teaching approach and will be referred to throughout the site as they become relevant.
Links to Lessons
Mindset
- A Test for Talent
- Quality First, Quantity Second
- Motivation
- It’s All Mental
- Habits
- Problem Solving
- If at First You Don’t Succeed
- Studying, Practicing, Exercising
- The 80-20 Principle
- “Memorization”
- Managing Your Expectations
- Micro-Lessons
Study-Practice Tips
- Study-Practice Session Guidelines
- Ways to Know a Piece of Music
- Ears First
- Divide & Conquer
- Slow Playing
- Visualization
- Hands Separate
- The Drummer’s Trick
- Feedback
- Before You Begin, a Meditation