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The Key Mental Skill of Expert Musicians

The Key Mental Skill of Expert Musicians

by Gerald Klickstein | Aug 29, 2020 | memorization, music performance, music practice, The Musician's Way

“When I sit in Paris in a café, surrounded by people, I don’t sit casually – I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.” —Arthur Rubinstein, pianist The Musician’s Way, p. 34 Like Arthur Rubinstein, countless expert musicians use...
Feeling Ahead

Feeling Ahead

by Gerald Klickstein | Oct 15, 2010 | music performance, music practice, The Musician's Way

“The mind always has to anticipate the physical action that is to be taken and then to send the command for its execution.” –Ivan Galamian, violin teacher The Musician’s Way, p. 48 Of all the skills required to perform music, one of the most vital ones is also the...
Awareness, Focus, Concentration

Awareness, Focus, Concentration

by Gerald Klickstein | Jul 11, 2010 | creative process, music performance, music practice

“A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of awareness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive, it includes everything.” –Bruce Lee, martial artist One of the most common questions I receive from music students is, “How...
Mental Imaging

Mental Imaging

by Gerald Klickstein | Jul 4, 2010 | creative process, creativity, music performance, music practice, The Musician's Way

“To rely on muscular habit, which so many do in technique, is indeed fatal. A little nervousness, a muscle bewildered and unable to direct itself, and where are you? For technique is truly a matter of the brain.” –Fritz Kreisler, violinist (quoted in, Kato...

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