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The Music Student's Illustrated Guide to Practicing

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An edition of Practiceopedia (2007)

Practiceopedia

The Music Student's Illustrated Guide to Practicing

Color Edition edition
  • 5.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

Practiceopedia is the big practice help book. Showing students how to work: A gateway to a wider world of practice possibilities -- it's all about teaching your students how to work smarter, so they get full value from every second they spend. Coffee table quality: Production values for this book have deliberately been set very high, with full color throughout on enyclopedia quality semi-gloss paper. Find help fast: Troubleshooting index allows students to look up common practice problems -- say "learning new pieces" or "preparing for performance" -- and then recommends all the entries that will help. For all instruments: Practiceopedia has been carefully put together to showcase practice ideas that are applicable to any instrument. 376 pages of information: Making this the biggest book on practicing ever written. Fully illustrated: Over 350 color illlustrations help keep the content engaging and reinforce key points. Browsable & reader friendly: Clear subheadings, use of bolded text for quick-scanning, pull quotes and sidebars make this a book you can dive into at any page. There's over 100,000 words of information in Practiceopedia, but the content is in a breezy magazine style that students will want to read. Creating practice experts: Practiceopedia ensures that parents who supervise practice sessions will never run out of ideas, and are able to get their kids lesson-ready in a fraction of the time, and with minimum fuss. - Publisher.

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PracticeSpot Press
Language
English
Pages
376

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Practiceopedia: The Music Student's Illustrated Guide to Practicing
March 26, 2007, PracticeSpot Press
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Table of Contents

Beginners : Curing your addiction to the start of your piece
Blinkers : Shutting out the things you shouldn't be working on
Boot camp : Where you send passages that won't behave
Breakthroughs diary : Being accountable for your progress
Bridging : Smoothing the bumps between sections
Bug spotting : Because you can't fix what you don't know about
Campaigns : Connecting your daily practice to the big picture
Cementing : Locking in the version you want to keep
Chaining : Getting to full speed, one segment at a time
Clearing obstacles : Finding what causes tricky bits to be tricky
Clockwatchers : Curing the unhealthy obsession with time
Closure : Knowing when you can safely stop practicing
Color coding : A whole new dimension to marking your score
Coral reef mistakes : Detecting invisible trouble spots
Cosmetics : Minimizing the impact of weak passages on concert day
Countdown charts : Factoring your deadlines into your practice
Designer scales : Choosing technical work to support your pieces
Details trawl : Ensuring you know what's really in the score
Dress rehearsals : Setting up your own concert simulator
Engaging autopilot : The dangers of practicing without thinking
Exaggerating : Overstating key ideas to embed them
Excuses and ruses : Why you'll never really fool your teacher if you haven't practiced
Experimenting : Testing different interpretation options
Fire drills : Training to cope gracefully with on-stage mistakes
Fitness training : Behind-the-seems practice to help all your pieces
Fresh photocopies : Creating your own custom scores, tailored for practicing
Horizontal versus vertical : Knowing when to change your practice direction
Isolating : Stopping problems from interfering with each other
Lesson agenda : Setting aside issues to raise at your next lesson
Lesson preflight check : Finding out if you're on track for next lesson
Lesson review : Ensuring last lesson is fresh in your mind while you work
Level system : The astonishing power of tiny steps
Marathon week : Pushing yourself to find out what's really possible
Metronome method : Sneaking up on full tempo
Not wanting to practice : How to manage the biggest practice crisis of all
One way doors : eliminating the need for constant revision
Opening and endings : VIP attention for the most important parts of any performance
Painting the scene : Giving your performances a cinematic edge
Practice buddies : Using the power of competition and cooperation
Practice traps : Bad practice habits that waste your time and direct your playing
Pressure testing : Ensuring you can produce your best playing when it counts most
Randomizing : The ultimate way to end the practice ho-hums
Prototypes : Building a model of the ideal performance
Recording yourself : Finding out and responding to what you really sound like
Recordings : Using existing performances to supercharge your preparation
Reflecting : Why the best practice sometimes makes no sound at all
Restoration : Relearning old pieces without regressing
Rogue cells : When the smallest unit of practice goes bad
Scouting : Getting to know your new piece before you start practicing it
Session agenda : Creating and working with daily practice to-do lists
Shooting the movie : A smarter way to work out what's next
Speeding : The hidden damage caused by practicing too fast
Stalling : What to do when a piece gets stuck
Thematic practice : A powerful alternative to practicing in sections
Tightening : Making the leap from good enough to excellent
Triage : When there's too much to do, and not enough time to do it
Triggers : Setting up cues that get you practicing in the first place
Turnaround time : Mastering new pieces in weeks instead of months
Varying your diet : Freeing yourself from dull, repetitive practice
Visualizing : The most important practice you'll ever do
Your practice suite : Setting up the ultimate practice space

Edition Notes

"The essential practice room reference for today's busy students (and parents!) so that every minute counts" - cover.

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Mawson, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
376 p.
Number of pages
376
Dimensions
7.8 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

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OL8481084M
ISBN 10
0958190534
ISBN 13
9780958190534
Library Thing
3237507
Goodreads
1193599

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