299: Diagnosing And Solving The True Causes Of Musical Struggles (Coaches Corner, Episode 9)
Musicality NowShow Notes
Join Christopher and the Next Level coaching team to discover the latest tips, tricks and techniques you can use to advance in your own musical life.
In this episode:
- Andrew shares an illustration of the power of musicality to fix even seemingly-unrelated problems with technique
- Zac gives a beautiful example of how active listening can dramatically simplify your learning tasks in music
- Andy explains how to get out of the "I should" and "I'll never" head trash and focus on what's really true in practice and performance
- And Camilo shares the power of self-recording to demonstrate with certainty the progress you've really made!
All that and more in this week's Coaches Corner!
Tip: find just ONE idea from everything that's shared, and take it to your next music practice session or apply it in YOUR musical life.
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Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/299
Links and Resources • Musicality Now: Can You Learn Perfect Pitch? Should You? (Inside The Book) • The Musicality Book • Musicality Now: Creating, Listening, Understanding (with Tony Parlapiano of popMATICS) • Musicality Now: Classical vs. Rock/Pop vs. Jazz Harmony (with Tony Parlapiano) • Musicality Now: Unlocking Harmony • Musicality Now: Be Yourself And Discover Your Own Music (with David Reed, Improvise For Real) • Improvise For Real • How To Write Songs • Next Level Coaching
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