by Gerald Klickstein | Oct 22, 2012 | music education, The Musician's Way
“Your habits in the practice room make you the musician that you are.” -The Musician’s Way, p. 20 I’m pleased to present this guest post by Dr. Lisa Dawson of Indiana Weslyan University. -GK The Musician’s Way by Gerald Klickstein is being used by the Voice...
by Gerald Klickstein | Nov 8, 2009 | creative process, music practice, The Musician's Way
Let’s say that you’re about to practice a new piece of music: What’s your typical plan of attack? Researchers have observed that expert and student musicians display profound differences in their approaches to learning new material, and those differences lead to huge...
by Gerald Klickstein | Sep 10, 2009 | Assessment, music education, music practice, music technology, MusiciansWay.com, Self-recording
“There is nothing more fatal for our musical sense, than to allow ourselves – by the hour – to hear musical sounds without really listening to them”-Tobias MatthayThe Musician’s Way, p. 16 Imagine that you’re watching an artist paint in her studio: She spreads color...
by Gerald Klickstein | Aug 6, 2009 | music education, music practice, The Musician's Way
In The Musician’s Way, I encourage the singing of solfège syllables, scale-degree numbers, counting syllables, and letter names as part of the process of learning, memorizing, and interpreting music. In my own teaching and playing, I employ the fixed-do solfège...
