by Jessica Dorman | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of my students recently asked me how he could get the most out of his practice sessions. My last two posts dealt with this to some extent: honestly evaluate your practicing, and make sure you put in enough correct repetitions to outweigh the mistakes. I’ve...
by Jessica Dorman | Nov 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my last post, I addressed how honestly evaluating your practice gets you to the goal of being able to play your piece faster than just trying to play your piece at tempo. Understanding how we learn works hand in hand with this honest self-evaluation. Whenever we do...
by Jessica Dorman | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you’ve ever been down the road of counting calories to manage your weight, you may have learned a valuable lesson about practicing. Colin and I both had a similar experience early on in our calorie counting journeys. We were using an app (MyFitnessPal) to log...
by Jessica Dorman | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
New experiences are hard. Transitions are hard. Probably the hardest transition I experienced was the transition from being a student to not being a student anymore. After elementary school, middle school, high school, undergraduate school, and graduate...
by Jessica Dorman | Aug 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Although I am a lover of organization, I do tend to find myself going through cycles with paper. Paper is hard to keep organized and being so thin, the mess sneaks up on you. “Oh, it’s just one piece of paper, I don’t want to deal with it right now” turns...
by Jessica Dorman | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
The need to unplug is real. Overwork is real. I have always been a proponent of the work hard, play hard theory. But as previously mentioned, I am a serial over-committer, so I’m probably overdoing it (on both sides!). In the last post, I talked about adjusting...
