There are two major learning strategies: block and interleaved. Which one is best?
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What do Lay's chips and warm-up routines have in common? You shouldn't have just one!
Why You Shouldn’t Have (One) Warmup Routine Recently updated !
I'm reminded of an excellent way to quickly "measure" rims without any fancy tools.
Dropping A Dime On Mouthpiece Measuring
Active vs. Passive learning: sometimes the best medicine is the most bitter.
Most Effective Learning Style Feels the Worst
Telling a student to memorize something is not the same as telling them to memorize it. Seth Godin explains.
Memorizing =/= Learning
In a recent blog article over at James Boldin’s Horn World blog, James discusses a recent visit to the University of Louisiana-Monroe by Dr. Eldon Matlick, who is the Horn Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His blog article briefly covers some of the topics that Dr. Matlick discussed with […]
Eldon Matlick and A New (To Me) Tuning System
Practicing a musical instrument can be a frustrating experience. Lots of hours focused on just getting one or two small sections perfect, only to be faced with more the next day or week. However, practice isn’t just about focusing on small details and getting individual notes correct. At least part […]
Practice Recipe: 3 Parts Focus with 1 Part Distraction
How to plan your practice is a topic that I’ve covered before, but there’s a lot more to getting in “enough” playing than just sitting down for a practice session. The typical recommendation from the ever-popular Farkas book is that you need to get in 3 hours of practice per […]