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Musician’s Guide to “Playing Fast”
It has always been the ultimate goal of many musicians. Sometimes, it’s even the reason young students sign up for music lessons; and definitely the “why” you and me spent so many hours locked up in...
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How To Be The Best Performer
Want to be among the top 1% of classical music performers? Then you have to be different. First, you must behave like the musician you want to become. That way you will trick your mind to do the same...
View ArticleWeezic : Play With a Symphony Orchestra at Home
How many musicians play alone with their score and metronome? How many musicians dream of playing concertos but will never have the chance to play with a real orchestra? Too many! http:/weezic.com is a...
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How to Reach Your Goals in Music
You cannot enroll in 1001 projects and expect proficiency at each one of them. If you do so you won’t have time to relax, which is an essential ingredient to stay fresh and work at your best level the...
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Judgment, Trust, and Classical Musicians
Shoes off and hand luggage ready to be scanned, I went quickly through security. Thirty seconds later my backpack reached the x-rays and the TSA agent cried out loud, “Oooohhh I think you are not going...
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Gratification, Effort and Musicians
Gratification Gratification will always knock at your door. She will stand near you and make her best offer—take it now or tell her to come back and bring more goodies. If you decide to hang out with...
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Musicians Need to be Reminded
It’s why you read this blog, right? No matter how many times I write about procrastination, if we don’t keep reminding ourselves how strong its power is, procrastination will affect our work. It’s...
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A Classical Musician’s Battlefield
I am more serious, quiet and restless. The symptoms are coming back and I feel like I’m about to graduate; my soul tickles and expects the unusual event. It’ll be a big day, an uncertain day, an...
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How to Build a Concerto or a Snowman
The Workout In the beginning it’s all physical, you learn how to get the sound out of the instrument. Notes and rhythms make the body of the snowman and along with the body, you have to build muscle to...
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Haunted by Practice Ghosts?
The night before you scheduled your practice sessions, your meals, coffee breaks, time to listen to a record, a meeting with an old friend and even the exact time you were supposed to go to bed. The...
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The Big Leagues of Classical Music
You committed to practice for years and leveled up in status and musicianship, now it’s time to move on. You decide to move forward and enter the Big Leagues. What you may not know, is that in the big...
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The Last 10 Minutes of Practice
You look at the clock on the wall, one hour left. Crap! You can’t go, not until five o’clock sharp. Whatever you are doing I know it’s not fun because you are looking at the clock. Time passes slowly....
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Do You Keep a Practice Journal?
How to you keep track of your progress? In your mind? Tsk, tsk ,tsk! Your old pal remembers a lot of things, but you can’t rely on your mind when you need details; it’s simply too much information. You...
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On Phrasing
When you play notes, you play notes. When you play notes in a context, you are making sense of the music. When you play each individual note with a correlation to the next one and then the next one,...
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The Meaning of a Good Life
A good life is not when you are lying on a hang mat for 30 minutes, you need a whole hour to call it “a good life” [joke]. No but really, a good life is born when you carefully craft your present...
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