How Do Experts Maximize Their Practice? 5 Lessons From Athletes
A summary of research conducted on athletes with deliberate practice routines, and the resulting differences between experts and amateurs.
A summary of research conducted on athletes with deliberate practice routines, and the resulting differences between experts and amateurs.
Progress and self-development are hard to measure, and it’s all to easy to get discouraged. Here are 3 ways to spot skills improvement!
A handy analysis of recent studies suggesting learning “how to practice” can actually help your music practice become more efficient.
A brief look at the ways in which leaning into the emotionality of music whether joyful or sad, can help us learn and retain new information.
How introducing “new” information can help you retain and utilize the familiar stuff you already know, in new ways… Read on to learn more.
Starting out teaching new students? Here are some pitfalls to avoid and strategies to implement (for the benefits of the student).
A summary of research that supports the idea that our brain activity remains in learning mode while we’re at rest. Hence: take more breaks!
A powerful meditation on hiding behind what we don’t know — and how that, more than imposter syndrome, can impede the learning process.
“How we memorize” passages of music can actually affect much more than our practice routines, it can relieve anxiety, and boast confidence…
A short but sweet OpEd on why learning doesn’t have to be “grueling” to be effective, and how to master small skills, faster.