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Category Archives: Music Rehearsal Tips
Chord Families: Learn with These Simple Tips
This is a guest blog post from Marc-Andre Seguin of JazzGuitarLessons.net. Marc’s giving some crucial information that’s helpful for all musicians.–David Motto When first learning how to play a musical instrument, most students realize that the same chords keep showing … Continue reading
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Best Counting Methods
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week: The Best Counting Methods One of the top pieces of advice music teachers give their students is to count all the time while they’re playing. Keeping the count allows musicians to improve their … Continue reading
Prepare for Any Performance
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week:6 Steps to Prepare for Any Performance From Learning to Mastery Once you can control all the notes for an upcoming concert, audition, gig, or other important situation, the practice room needs to become … Continue reading
Stage Clothes
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week:The Performance Preparation that Nobody Does Whether your performance garb is white-tie and tails or a vinyl mini-skirt, you need to be sure you can play well in your stage clothes. Hardly anyone double … Continue reading
Musicians as Athletes
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week:Musicians as Athletes The Demands We Make on Our Bodies Physical comfort while playing your instrument is important, and your actions before and after you play also greatly influence your ability to perform. Too … Continue reading
The Best Music Memorization Tip Ever
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week:The #1 Music Memorization Strategy There Are a Lot of Memorization Techniques Many musicians contact me asking me for tips on playing and performing from memory. It’s clearly something that worries a lot of … Continue reading
Quick Rehearsal Tip – Don’t Be Too Specific
Don’t get too specific with your musical decisions. It’s better to say, “We’ll vamp until cue” instead of “Play this 6 times.” No one will remember to play that section 6 times at your performance, and being so specific will … Continue reading
Quick Rehearsal Tip – Know Who is Giving Cues
Decide as a group who’s giving cues where they’re needed in different songs. Make your communication clear inside your group! Clear cues, and knowing where they’re coming from, will make everyone feel more confident on stage.
Quick Rehearsal Tip – Song Keys and Forms
Know your keys and song forms before the band gets together. This will save huge amounts of rehearsal time and lower the level of frustration in the room.
Quick Rehearsal Tip: End with Something Fun
End your rehearsals with something fun that everyone likes to play. You’ll remember the fun ending, not the hard work!
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