(Note: if you’ve taken this session before, please check in on it again. It’s been updated and even includes a method for breaking deeply engrained bad habits that works remarkably well. Bring your most stubborn bad habit with you and we’ll fix it!)

From the time we first pick up an instrument, we’re told how important it is to practice but few of us get useful, practical guidance on how to practice. This session will give you strategies for organizing your practice time, and we’ll leverage the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and performance psychology to overcome bad habits and learn music, in a deeper, more efficient manner, improving memorization, and performing more confidently.

We'll talk about 'Deliberate Practice’, and some lesser known but super-valuable practice strategies like variable, interleaved, spaced and mental practice, all of which have been shown to dramatically improve playing accuracy and memorization. We’ll discuss the importance of goal setting, strategies for creating practice habits that stick and some less obvious but important factors like sleep and taking practice breaks.

We’ll also talk through the very real differences between practicing to learn a tune, vs practicing to perform a tune, and learn a few strategies to help make your performances at jams, open-mics, coffee houses and concert stages rock solid.

If you want to learn more efficiently and perform more reliably, with more confidence under pressure, this session is for YOU!

‍For all instruments and all experience levels.

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