POWER PRACTICING - For every musician. Jack shows you how to get maximum benefit from your practice time.
by Jack Grassel
Jack’s book is to musicians what Zen in the Art of Archery is to archers: a practical text that increases accuracy, but more importantly, informs the life process itself.
- Topics: motivation, efficient use of practice time, creating an inspiring practice area, determining the length of the practice session, making the practice session interesting, the four types of practicing, the warm-up, metronome techniques, reading improvement, technique improvement, ear training, transcribing music, techniques which improve improvisation, the relationship between student and teacher, music lessons for children, preparing for a performance, the performance, listening to music constructively, physical and mental fitness.
These 27 pages are the basis for Jack’s seminars and his own daily practice sessions. Use these ideas as the foundation for expanding your own ideology.