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 | 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 | 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 | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
According to the experts you can’t truly multitask. You wouldn’t know that if you looked at my Google calendar. Especially in the before-times, I would regularly have multiple events in the same hour slot. The thing is, I wasn’t truly...
