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 | May 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
So in my last 2 posts, I shared the processes that I have developed for score study, practicing piano, and practicing singing. These are very specific processes that are only applicable to musicians. But developing processes in general is a very important tactic...
by Jessica Dorman | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have also developed a practice process for singing. It’s a bit of a different animal from playing the piano. First off, there are a couple of additional score study steps: 1-I generally ask my students to mark their breath plan and mark the word emphasis...
by Jessica Dorman | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
For those of you left curious by my last post, here’s my score-study process: 1-If I’m dealing with a digital score, I crop and straighten every page so that I’m not dealing with straining to read tiny notes or crooked pages. 2-I slash out all the tied notes. (I don’t...
