Quality Practice
Susan Williams / Christopher Collings
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Mapping Mastery
Mapping Mastery is a self-paced video course designed as a complete learning cycle — from orientation and goal setting to performance and reflection. It brings clarity, structure and energy to your…
Here & Now: Sensory Awareness
This guided visualisation helps you to develop sensory awareness – a great way to warm up and to reach a state of deep engagement.
Here & Now: Self-Awareness
Here’s a visualisation exercise to help you connect with yourself – body, mind, and emotion – to help you be in a centred state for practice, performance and for formulating goals.
Performance Preparation Visualisation
A very practical mental training tool for preparing your performances is to do a Performance Preparation Visualisation. Positive visualization exercises have the best effects when you do them…
Performance Preparation Strategies
Which strategies can help you to be able to say ‘I am well prepared’? Here is a look at the weeks before a performance and how you can best use them.
Performance Preparation
How do you know if you are ready to perform something? Performing is a skill that needs to be developed and practiced. Once you know you can play a piece convincingly, you need to practice trust.…
Mindset
In this episode, we dive into the power of mindset and the deep-seated beliefs we hold about ourselves. How do these beliefs shape our practice and performances, our confidence, and the opportunities…
Motivation
In this episode, we dive into the different forms of motivation—intrinsic and extrinsic—and explore how they shape our actions. Why do some things excite us naturally, while others require external…
Building Healthy Habits
Creating healthy habits is an important part for being a musician. Changing habits sometimes seems hard, so we have to be aware of our subconscious mechanisms that hold us back from change.
You are the instrument
There is a lot of injury, stress and burnout in the music profession. It’s important to take care of your own health and wellbeing to be a great learner and performer. That means the right amount and…
Tools & Strategies
Having a variety of tools and strategies of practicing is essential for optimal learning
Finding Flow
Cultivating deep engagement and creating a state of flow
Attentional focus
What do we need to focus on in order to learn and perform music?
Exploration
Get to know your repertoire, instrument and self, rather than just trying to 'solve’ them
Self-regulation
How you are able to control your learning process is a big predictor of success for musicians.
Foundations
What are the qualities of a good learner and conditions for learning and how do we enhance them?
S1E1 What is Quality Practice?
This episode is an overview the basic structure of Quality Practice and the main themes and criteria for optimal learning for musicians.
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Quality Practice has published 17 episodes since July 2024, covering topics in Arts, Performing Arts.
Quality Practice is currently declining with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 15m.
