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You Are What (and Who) You Listen To

This year, pay more attention to what you listen to.
Make 2020 the Year of Mental Models

Mental models are one of the most efficient and effective ways to practice. Do more this year!
Practice Triage: Sorting Out Your Practice

Is it better to focus on practicing simpler or more complex problems in your practice?
Practicing Auditions [Step by Step]

Auditions are stressful, but you can audition better by simply embracing the process.
Learning Strategies: Block vs. Interleaved

There are two major learning strategies: block and interleaved. Which one is best?
Why You Shouldn’t Have (One) Warmup Routine

What do Lay’s chips and warm-up routines have in common? You shouldn’t have just one!
Dropping A Dime On Mouthpiece Measuring

I’m reminded of an excellent way to quickly “measure” rims without any fancy tools.
Most Effective Learning Style Feels the Worst

Active vs. Passive learning: sometimes the best medicine is the most bitter.
Memorizing =/= Learning

Telling a student to memorize something is not the same as telling them to memorize it. Seth Godin explains.
Eldon Matlick and A New (To Me) Tuning System

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 the ULM Horn Studio, and…