Archive for March, 2010

Basic human nature fights against musicians who want to learn to play a musical instrument efficiently.  Keeping a music practice log helps you fight back. Without a special notebook for music lessons and practice sessions, music students stand little chance in dealing with two factors in the framework of the human brain: 1.  Our tendency to [...]

Music recitals are rituals for young musicians learning to play a musical instrument.  These performances are usually seen by music lesson teachers as opportunities to perform music in public for the first time and to show off the skills that have been developed by the music students. Sometimes, however, students don’t want to participate in a recital, [...]

We forget almost everything we’re exposed to.  Can you imagine if this were not the case?  Your memory would be overflowing with every single item you see, every sound you hear, and every action you take–day in and day out. Your brain is constantly filtering out information that doesn’t seem important. This filter has a [...]

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
--Malcolm Gladwell