practice Thinking About Practice: Part Five Reducing Music to Technique: Intelligent Bunglers and Brainless Acrobats First, some disclaimers: 1. The words in the title after the colon are not mine, they’re Carl Flesch’s and are from an
practice Thinking About Practice, Part Four Practice By Design Or Waste Your Time Although I can’t possibly have read everything written about practice, I’ve read, heard, taught, and done enough of my own to know that many
practice Thinking About Practice, Part Three Dagobah and East Coker When I first saw Scott Tennant’s Pumping Nylon[1] years ago, I was surprised to see a page that contained nothing but a quotation from Yoda:[2] Do
practice Thinking About Practice, Part Two Principles or Directives? A principle is a truth or proposition that shapes our reasoning and behavior. We want to have good reasons for what we do and sound principles can be those reasons.
Busoni Thinking About Practice, Part One Thinking About Practice; Practice Is About Thinking Today I inaugurate a multi-part exploration of something musicians do every day, but may take for granted: practice. Much of what is written about practice is