Practice Hacks for Musicians

Hi, I’m Noa Kageyama, creator of The Bulletproof Musician blog. I’m on the faculty at Juilliard as a Performance Psychologist where I help musicians learn how to perform better under pressure. In this mini course, we’ll be learning how to practice effectively and explore some of the research on effective learning and practice to provide you with a few more tools that you can add to your practice strategy tool box.

A Better Way to Practice

In the first lesson, we’ll take a look at the difference between two common approaches to learning - implicit and explicit learning. We’ll also explore the problem with repetition centric practice.

Doing Deliberate Practice

In the second lesson, we’ll get into a type of practice that you're probably already familiar with - deliberate practice. But more importantly, we’ll take a look at how to get your students or yourself to do more of it.

Mastery Illusion

In the third lesson, we’ll learn about the Mastery Illusion or the source of the “But it sounded so much better at home” syndrome.

Practicing for Skill Retrieval

In the last lesson, we'll explore another type of practice known as random or interleaved practice, which will help your students overcome this mastery illusion and also get better at playing much closer to their true abilities on the very first try rather than on the second or third try.  

About Noa Kageyama

Noa Kageyama is a performance psychologist and Julliard faculty member and is the performance psychology coach for the New World Symphony. Kageyama has degrees from Oberlin (BA, psychology), Juilliard (MM, violin performance) and Indiana University (MS/PhD, psychology). Kageyama specializes in teaching performing artists how to utilize sports psychology principles to more consistently demonstrate their full abilities under pressure.  

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