(Instructional). The essential companion for every musician. Accessible and authoritative, How to Practice Music is an ideal guide for anyone learning to play music. Suitable for instrumentalists and vocalists of any genre, this comprehensive handbook will give you a better idea of how to practice music, good reasons for doing so, and the confidence to succeed. Concepts: how to be motivated; how to plan your practice; how to warm up; how to practice core skills; how to practice pieces; how to practice mindfully; how to practice playing; and more!
In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.
talent means almost nothing when it comes to getting better at anything, especially music. Practice is everything. This book covers essential practice strategies and mindsets you won't find in any other book. You'll learn the What, Why, When, Where, Who, and especially the How of great music practice. You'll learn what research tells us about practice, but more importantly, you'll learn how the best musicians in many genres of music think about practice, and you'll learn the strategies and techniques they use to improve. This book will help you get better faster, whether you play rock, Bach, or any other kind of music.
MUSIC PRACTICE: A GUIDE FOR ALL MUSICIANSLEARN ALL THE BEST PRACTICE TIPS, TRICKS, AND TECHNIQUES USED BY THE GREATEST MUSICIANS IN THE WORLD...ALL FOR THE PRICE OF A COFFEE!Do you want to know and practice like the professionals do? Are you struggling with your playing? Having trouble getting motivate? Do you want to improve your playing and bring it to the next level? I decided to write this book because I was struggling with my own practice and playing and it took me many years to learn new strategies to get myself to where I wanted to be. Now I want to share these proven strategies with you. Some of them I discovered myself, but most of these I learned from professionals. If you're serious about playing, practicing, and improving your skills on your instrument, then this book is for you! Whether you are a beginner or professional, classically trained or not, this book contains proven strategies that can be applied by anybody. Why should you buy this book?This book is a compilation of the best practice tips and strategies from the best musicians in the world You will learn practice tips used by world class musicians ranging from pianists to violinists and trumpeters to clarinetists. This book contains over 80 tips for practicing everything from rhythm to intonation to challenging passages. You will learn how to practice effectively and efficiently What you will learn and discoverHow to set goals and the importance of setting goals what the experts do differently How to have an engaging practice session 10 Must-have practice habits 24 Ways to practice with the metronome various ways to practice intonation Different ways to practice performing 10 different ways to practice memorizing music Fast practice vs. slow practice Many more practice tips, tricks, and strategies Want to Know More? SCROLL BACK UP TO THE TOP AND CLICK THE BUY BUTTON! Tags: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Basses, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba, Trumpets, Guitar, Vocal Singers, Saxophone, Recorder, Organ, Euphonium, Harp, Percussion, Music Practice, Music Performance
"This book will encourage, support and inspire all music pupils. It can change a reluctant pupil's attitude to music practice and motivate them to want to practise. It will help pupils understand how we learn to play a musical instrument. It will encourage pupils to take responsibility for themselves, and for their own progress."--Page 4 of cover.
(General Music). Proven successful in private lessons and in the classroom, this planner is a must-have for all musicians. Teachers can use it to set goals and assignments, and students can monitor their progress, time and efficiency.
First, Learn to Practice is a book about how to practice a musical instrument - any musical instrument. It's suitable for all musicians - professional, amateur, student or beginner. Whether you play in a concert hall or your own basement, First, Learn to Practice can show you how to get the most pleasure, and the most progress, out of your practice time.
The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Music Education offer a comprehensive overview of the many facets of musical experience, behavior and development in relation to the diverse variety of educational contexts in which they occur. In these volumes, an international list of contributors update and redefine the discipline through fresh and innovative principles and approaches to music learning and teaching.
George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.
This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. Each main section - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century - contains an introduction dealing with contexts of performance as well as sources and theory. This is followed by detailed discussions of vocal and instrumental performance.
