The Musician's Way Book Review

"The Musician's Way a guide to practice, performance, and wellness" by Gerald Klickstein

I'm engrossed in this book. It is packed with ideas, which I will share over the next few weeks. There is a link for additional material at www.musiciansway.com

Overview

1.      The five practice zones

• New Material: absorbing the artistic and technical content through precise practice, slow tempo
  
• Developing material: refining interpretation, increasing tempo, memorizing
  
• Performance material: reviewing the interpretive and technical particulars, maintaining tempo and practicing as performance
  
• Technique: honing your skills so you don't make a fool of yourself
  
• Musicianship: sight-reading, ear training, improvisation

2.      Planning your practice 

• Have a plan, work the plan
  

3.      Staying healthy and sane

• Musicians are notoriously out of shape which combined with anxiety from their ambition and crazy deadlines leads to all sorts of health problems, including injury
  

Cheers,

David Story



 

 

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