Tag: cp practicing

At my last workshop, this question was asked by Rachel, an opera singer: “In performance, the stakes are higher. In practice, it’s hard for me to prioritize. There’s like a roadblock in my practicing, but in real life I’d handle it better.” It’s normal for real-life performance situations to make us perform better. More is…

I was looking through some old notebooks the other night, and I wanted to share this: I’ve noticed that when most people practice music, they don’t have fun. When I practice, however, I do have fun. So…why don’t you have fun while practicing? (It’s not because you suck at music.) Westerners view music as an…

I’m gonna lay this out there first: Being musical is not hard. So…why do you think it’s hard? You think it’s hard because you were told it’s hard. Think back to early experiences when you first realized that being musical was hard: Maybe you had a music teacher who told you that you weren’t being…