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Category Archives: Visualization
Feel Calm Stay Focused
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week:How to Feel Calm and Stay Focused Transitioning into the Zone Making the transition from all the crazy activity of your day to the relative calm of your practice room is not automatic. This … Continue reading
Making Time for Music
David Motto’s Practice Tip of the Week:Making Time for Music When You’re Busy Musicians contact me daily to tell me about the challenges they’re facing. As a performance coach, it’s my job to help them meet these challenges so they … Continue reading
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7 Visualization Essentials
There’s a lot more to visualization than seeing yourself being successful. I’ve talked before about how the word “visualization” is incomplete. It makes you think only of seeing things. Some performance psychologists and researchers are now saying “mental imagery” instead. … Continue reading
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Why Visualization is So Powerful
At first, it seemed like science fiction. Turns out, it’s actual science. Researchers took brain scans of people as they engaged in an activity. Then, they took scans of these same people merely visualizing doing the same activity using mental … Continue reading
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Creating Success with Visualizations
My last blog post was 10 Secrets and Shortcuts to Improve Your Skills. Number 7 on that list was to “Visualize Success.” For this post and the next few posts I’m going deeper into the visualization process. I want to … Continue reading
10 Secrets and Shortcuts to Improve Your Skills
What’s your answer when someone asks you, “How can I get better as a musician?” I hope you don’t say, “Spend more time practicing.” Most people don’t know how to practice. So, if they spend more time practicing, it won’t … Continue reading
