by Jessica Dorman | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve written several articles about practicing now. As you increase the number of hours spent at your instrument, you increase your risk of injury. The number 1 defense against this is good technique, yet even if you have great technique, you can still...
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...
by Jessica Dorman | Mar 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
You read that correctly. While I do have a chart of recommended amounts of daily practice time on my studio policies page, that’s just a basic guideline. Because it’s not so much about the quantity as the quality. Well, ok, if you don’t put in the quantity, you...
by Jessica Dorman | Jan 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
I hear this so much. Honestly, I hated practicing as a kid, too. I didn’t start to enjoy practicing until I learned how to do it well; I didn’t start to enjoy practicing until I started having flow experiences (when you lose track of time...
