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Mindful Musicianship

Mindful Musicianship

by Gerald Klickstein | Feb 28, 2011 | creative process, creativity, music performance, music practice

“Learning the basics in a rote, unthinking manner almost ensures mediocrity.” –Ellen Langer, psychologist The Power of Mindful Learning, p. 14 How does mindfulness apply to music making? When we’re mindful, we notice. We attend to our sound, emotions, execution, and...
Beautiful Repetition

Beautiful Repetition

by Gerald Klickstein | Nov 20, 2010 | creative process, music practice, The Musician's Way

“When, through repetition, you practice being inventive and playful, your concerts will resound with those same spontaneous traits.” –The Musician’s Way, p. 53 We musicians do a lot of repeating. In practice, we necessarily repeat material to refine our skills, learn...
Getting Started

Getting Started

by Gerald Klickstein | Sep 15, 2009 | creative process, creativity, music practice, writing

“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...

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