Do you ever dodge your creative work? Say, your practice or writing time arrives, and you race off to do some chore. It might be a chore that you detest, but now it calls to you. Then, instead of refining your music, you start cleaning the house or doing whatever. If...
Have you ever been confounded by a thorny passage that wouldn’t come together? You know, the sort of material where even after days of working on the music, you notice no real improvement. Probably every musician encounters such problem spots from time to time....
“Take the action and the insight will follow.” -Anne Lamott, author The Musician’s Way, p. 107 Whether we plan to create a performance, composition, essay, or mousetrap, we have to launch our project and work on it regularly. But we all know that creative ventures...
“The path you take is your path and no one else’s, so welcome it.” -The Musician’s Way, p. 314 To build our abilities as performers, we have to develop personally effective ways to practice, collaborate, present concerts, engage with our communities,...
Welcome to The Musician’s Way Blog. In this, my inaugural post, I want to explain in a few words my motivation for writing my book The Musician’s Way, creating MusiciansWay.com, and launching this blog. I took up the pen and carved out a corner of cyberspace to help...
