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When preparing for an exam, whether you are wanting to pass or not, there is only one goal: To pass. However, passing is seldom just … Read more

The silence in the audition room are heavy with judgment and ticking clocks. Before you can begin your initial selection, you enter, exhale, and go. … Read more

Forty-five minutes out from a recital, there is a certain kind of panic that occurs, but not one associated with any loss of memory. You’re … Read more

In a rehearsal room you might find the song feels too brief. You get through the structure one time and then it end. Or you … Read more

Maybe the warmup lasts too long, or your review take up too much time and leaves no room to introduce new concept. At some point, … Read more

This protects your method because it eliminates any guess work in terms of preparing for performance. To see how long you should be warming up … Read more

Two things is expected for music theory examinations; firstly knowledge of the rules and secondly an intuitive understanding of how something sounds. They don’t split … Read more

Most players see scales as just a warm-up before getting to important part: the music. This approach reduces technical practice to rote learning rather than … Read more

Sometimes, you’ll find yourself playing something just right in practice and then you stumble when it matters. More often than not, it’s not a lack … Read more

Without a map to guide our efforts, most of us become good at practicing until we are broken. We sit down with an intention in … Read more

Musical fluency begins with arpeggios. These takes chordal isolation and make it flow. What was once theory becomes something you can play. A metronome isn’t … Read more

Without planning, how will a song do? Who knows? Maybe it’ll fly, but it might just go nowhere. It’s typically not random. There is generally … Read more

And then it’s too late: you lift up your instrument or step to the mic for that extended phrase but discover, too late, that you’ve … Read more

While most singers are aware of their need to warm up, few realise that preparation time is an area where less is rarely more. Enter … Read more

When you glance down on a piece of sheet music, maybe you can’t even process what it says. If you’re an actor, a speaker or … Read more