Adina Mornell: On Learning How to Practice in Such a Way That Performing Can Be Something We Enjoy, Rather Than Fear
The Bulletproof Musician
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Practice Assists - Are They Effective?
Musicians were asked to evaluate how their practice was going in terms of, did they do what they were planning? How difficult were the strategies that they adapted? Were they easy to adapt, hard to adapt? Were they effective? Were they not effective? And this momentary success was blinding to many of these musicians. They felt like, well, i've practise for 20 minutes this same chopin itude, and it's sounding better now. But when we listened and the or jurors listened to the recordings, it was 20 minutes of repetition where you couldn't even tell that it was becoming better. The study wa a real surprise to us because there was such a discrepancy.
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