Noe Kageyama is a Juilliard-trained violinist who is now a sport and performance psychologist. He discusses the famous work by Ericsson and subsequent scholars on deliberate practice — there seem to be hundreds of blog and popular press articles that do this — but then goes on to give specific advice with rich, sophisticated examples [...]
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Well, this is pretty cool. I’m probably the last pianist on the web to discover this, but: the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall has put some master classes online, with video, scores, some other supplementary material. They are organized into topics so you can experience them organized around the piece in question, or by [...]
Tagged Learning, online, teachingCognitive psychologists have found that one process in human learning is automatizing: complex tasks, when practiced or rehearsed enough, become automatic, so they can be performed using little or none of a very scarce resource: conscious attention. Anyone who drives a car is familiar with discovering one has been daydreaming and not consciously paying attention, [...]
Tagged books, practiceDon’t criticize my spelling: Mike Saville is British. And the blogger who publishes “How to Practise“, which is a site that provides a wealth of straightforward, often helpful practice tips, mostly in the form of exercises, drills, tricks (not really sure what to call them). Similar to a few books I’ve mentioned, like Practiceopedia, and [...]
Tagged Learning, practiceHarriette Brower’s 1915 book, Piano Mastery, is online in a public domain Project Gutenberg edition. She recounts interviews she did with about 20 master pianists and teachers (e.g., Busoni, Paderewski, Goodson), includes essays on interpretation by William Mason and William Sherwood, and offers her own essay on technique (from hand position through practicing, memorizing, tone [...]
Tagged books, online, teachingBen Clapton offers a blog devoted solely to music practice.
Prof. Brent Hugh (Missouri Western State College of Music) maintains a rather extensive page on piano practice principles and methods. Throughout he sprinkles observations from the psychology of learning to clarify and justify the principles. I’d be happier if he provided some references for these “psychologists say” comments, because it is easy to mis-generalize research [...]
Chris Foley (Collaborative Piano Blog) spent October writing a music practice essay a day. What an undertaking! I think many of his ideas are good, and several are new to me. Some will be controversial (most modern serious teachers I know think Hanon-type exercises are very unproductive, for example), but Chris seems to be aiming [...]
Here is a listing of the books I have on practicing the piano. And a listing (incomplete) of the books I have on music generally (including practice, interpretation, playing, theory, harmony, history, etc.).