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Practicing vs Performing vs Playing for Fun

Practicing vs Performing vs Playing for Fun

by Gerald Klickstein | Apr 10, 2025 | creative process, music performance, music practice, The Musician's Way

“Beyond personal fulfillment, the decisive aim of practice is to prepare performances because, as an art form, music centers on the interaction between performer and listener.” -The Musician’s Way, p. 4 For vocalists and instrumentalists alike, music making cycles...
Thinking and Feeling While Performing

Thinking and Feeling While Performing

by Gerald Klickstein | Oct 26, 2022 | creative process, music performance, performance anxiety, The Musician's Way

“Give yourself over to the emotion of the music while you also lead the music, directing your execution and the emotional flow.” –The Musician’s Way, p. 187 Aspiring musicians work hard to develop technical and interpretive skills, which are the most obvious abilities...
How to Write a Grant Proposal – A Concise Guide for Musicians

How to Write a Grant Proposal – A Concise Guide for Musicians

by Gerald Klickstein | Apr 27, 2022 | creative process, Entrepreneurship, music careers

“Let your community feed your creativity.” –The Musician’s Way, p. 313 If you aspire to present innovative or community-focused performances, there’s plenty of funding available to support those sorts of projects. In fact, many funding organizations are keen to...
The Musician’s Way in Two Verses

The Musician’s Way in Two Verses

by Gerald Klickstein | Mar 30, 2022 | creative process, music careers, music education, The Musician's Way

“Ultimately, your musical progress will depend more on your skillfulness with the creative process than on any talent.” –The Musician’s Way, p. 313 When I teach introductory workshops on The Musician’s Way, I organize concepts using frameworks that musicians can...
Uniting Solitary and Group Practice

Uniting Solitary and Group Practice

by Gerald Klickstein | Nov 10, 2020 | collaboration, creative process, music practice

“You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.” —Paul Klee, painter The Musician’s Way, p. 121 Like a painter dipping into a limited palette, a musician practicing an isolated part has to adapt to material that’s incomplete. A part played or sung out of context...
Improvisation for Classical Musicians

Improvisation for Classical Musicians

by Gerald Klickstein | Oct 30, 2019 | creative process, music careers, music performance, music practice

“It’s very gratifying to improvise in front of people. I feel I’m including them in what I’m doing, taking them someplace they might like to go and haven’t been before.” -Jim Hall, guitarist The Musician’s Way, p. 102 Improvisation is the most playful way that we can...
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