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January 12, 2011

The Musician's Way Blog» Blog Archive » Deep practice

Many dedicated music students believe that if they can get through a piece in practice, they should necessarily be able to perform the piece on stage.

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I've been reading about deep practice and finding it's correlation to the Feldenkrais Method. Instead of re-writing a description of deep practice, I'll post this reblog from "The Musician's Way" blog. I highly recommend reading the book by Gerald Klickstein. More on deep practice and the Feldenkrais Method to come.

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Reading List

Brian Frederiksen: Arnold Jacobs: Song and Wind
Part biography and part description of Jacob's teaching philosophy and teaching wisdom. I refer to this book when preparing breathing lessons for musicians.
Sam Pilafian & Patrick Seridan: Breathing Gym, The
Interesting and useful breathing exercises. Some of the exercises may need to be modified for younger students.
Oliver Sachs: Musicophillia
Enjoyable read on neurology and music.
Kristian Steenstrup: Teaching Brass, 2nd revised edition
An Interesting read on the theory of playing and teaching brass. I found this book to be helpful in understanding things I already sensed, had been taught and discovered for myself. Includes interesting info on the teaching of Arnold Jacobs.

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