Learning to Learn: The Science of Neuroplasticity The first step of knowing how to teach yourself (orothers) is learning how to learn. And this video onneuroplasticity can give you all the tools you need.
A Small Trick for More Reward and Motivation to Practice If you've been needing more motivation, just oneor two small changes may be able toget you started on building better habits.
Improve Timing with Intermittent Metronome While most music teachers will tell youthat metronome practice is essential, there isanother component to improving your internal pulse.
Errors in Learning: Good or Bad? It's a common idea that mistakes inthe beginning stages of learning something arebad - but are they?
Avoid Overwhelm and Overcommitting This Semester: Time Block Avoid pre-pandemic overwhelmand overcommitting byusing time-blocking.
Should You Take a Summer Break? "Should I take a practice break overthe summer?" is a question I heara lot. Hear's my response for post-COVID.
Meeting Your Deadlines If you're scrambling to prepare for upcomingconcerts and audition, it may not bea skill issue, but a systems issue.
How to Get Better Rhythm An interesting study on they internal rhythmof percussionists and non-percussionists shows one easyway to improve your counting.
Practice Results Most Obvious AFTER Sleep You won't get better without practice.But you won't see the realbenefits of practice until you sleep.
Three Kinds of Tasks Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of tasks thatpeople do regularly. How you categorize your tasks impactshow (and how well) you do them.