In case you missed “Jennifer’s 10-Day EASY Holiday Practice Challenge”, I thought I’d share some of the content from the emails here, including the daily “Food for Thought” ideas. This post is #2 in a series of blogposts highlighting all 10 days!
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT #2
What’s an intelligent way to work on improving a musical passage? What do you notice?
– Start with a very clear INTENTION.
– STOP DOING what is unnecessary, to allow for optimal coordination, awareness, and responsiveness to the moment (Alexander Technique teaches this).
– TRUST the system within you that organizes and coordinates everything you do.
– Let go and PLAY! Observe yourself with detachment as you play, making the whole more important than the parts.
– STOP.
– THINK about what happened. What did you notice? Where was your attention? What actually happened? Where is the evidence?
– STOP. If you want to do it again, don’t try harder, don’t do the same thing that didn’t work, and don’t work hard at doing it differently, either.
– Instead, do some constructive thinking! THINK to create another clear intention for doing it differently next time.
– REPEAT these steps.
SIMPLIFIED:
– THINK
– STOP
– TRUST
– PLAY
…REPEAT!
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