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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »