Practice Tactics

Practice tactics give you new tools to make your practice more effective and more inventive. Having choice both wakes up you brain and gives you more motivation to practice. It turns out that dry repetitions do not work as well as we always thought. New information from the field of motor-neurology indicate that variation in practicing creates the rich learning environment that the brain likes. You remember more and are more alert when you apply different techniques to the same phrase. Our tactics can be applied easily during a normal practice session, as they are not extremely time consuming. This makes it easy to get started. Some tactics are designed to take you out of habits that get in the way of your musical expressivity or clarity in technique. Others are to widen your experience of your own playing by using spatial/aural attention. Yet others are designed to use the power of stopping to allow your brain to process the complex stimuli of playing or singing, which speeds up your learning process. Above all, practice tactics are fun, which it turns out, is what your brain and body like best!

Chaining Backwards and Forwards
Variation makes Perfect
Make No Mistakes
Cleaning the House
Motivation to Practice
Stop-Go-Imagine
Contrary Motion
Less is More