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Best explained and surrounded with insightful tips! Your signature, but I still not seeing it coming most times. Nice surprises!

I used to record my playing one out of every two weeks to get feedback from my teacher, and I do it now also for myself. But each time I fall in an otherwise very unprobable sequence of false starts and discarded half takes. This is the first time I find that's a profitable situation, instead of a problematic one in which I need to heal my attitude towards (or, in other words, this is my first hint on how to address this, by taking all this in a positive way). Thanks!

That was really helpful. Thank you. (I'm glad I subscribed)

Great tips and I recognize all of them. Since my retirement I have all the time to practice. Almost every day and my instrument is all set up to get going immediately without hindering anyone. The most valuable tip for me it to break “the project” into small pieces, chunks as Mark calls them. What I did not hear in this video (I hope I did not miss it), is to get it in your head first. That insight helped me a lot.

It works.

Mark, how does this work when you are a live guitarist that is shredding leads to big crowds? I feel like if i looked at the crowd; I would lose it even more. Can you give an example of how you would do this while on stage holding your guitar?

The thing is this - for me - I once played a week with a former Jazz Messenger - who assumed that I knew all that repertoire. I didn’t. It’s a ‘niche’ repertoire too. I was embarrassed by my playing. And I grew to hate him. He never ‘accommodated’ me at all. I struggled but I made it eventually. A huge learning curve for me. He was a b*****d. A very well known messenger.

Monk will forever remain a ‘mystique’. Never truly understood - yet such a pivotal giant in bebop music. Not all players liked him necessarily. Miles for instance . . . .

You’re wrong. Mark knows what he’s talking about.

i hate putting pressure on myself and reacting negatively. it takes away the fun. what i do is play music i make or learn to play a cover of a song i like. when im learning it it's fun. but when i go to record it all of a sudden there's tension like ok NOW WERE RECORDING DON'T screw up. and it clouds my mind. i'm not fully there like wheni was ok with making mistakes. i need to implement the mindset of okness when im not recording to when i am. thanks u made alot of sense.

In addition to your tips…I find it helpful to turn off my phone, close the door to my practice room and focus for 20 min solid time on the timer (as you recommend)

Nice advice. I already do all of these things here and it was nice to hear you confirm that my practice sessions are efficient. Thank you for this.

I'm very shy as a soloist but I've found that collaborating with others really brings me out of my shell. It's such a beautiful experience when music is communal, and when musicians collaborate well.

Do you have a video on how to fix the spasms caused by central nervous system and adhesives scarring in the arachnoid membrane?

Saw this in Andrew huberman podcast,❤

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My pianist friend shared that she rewarded herself for memorizing a few measures at a time by pouring M&Ms out onto the piano top. She popped a couple each time she was successful. That was in 1963 as a 12 year old, prior to any knowledge about reinforcement.

Long time, no post! Can we expect more content in the near future?

Flow. 😃

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Glad I rediscovered this video. I tried it out yesterday, using this idea after each "minitask" on my daily list, and got lots of stuff done. To make it interesting, I used "Wheel Decide" to make a spinner that randomly selects between 6 choices... 3 are in the "no rewards" side (1. nothing, 2. do 10 squats, 3. spend 3 mins tidying up) and 3 are on the reward side (1. watch something on my TH-cam queue, 2. have a cup of tea/coffee, 3. venture into the cursed lands of Twitter). Might change the last one about Twitter as it's not that compelling. Anyway it might be partly placebo effect, but I found it fun, and ended up doing more work than expected (I kept rolling "nothing", and really wanted a cup of tea).

Ty. I do private singing lessons and I have a show tmrw this is exactly why I need?!

I learned a lot from this short video . Thanks.

You always go to the heart of the matter and untie the inner knots that bind us. Your positivity is practical and compassionate.

We used to have that same tiger poster in our practice room years ago. It was a great practice room and I wrote a lot of songs in that room.

17:53 Curiosity “Saved” The Cat! 🙏🏻

Carlos Santana spoke of being "inside the note," and this is a big part of what he was talking about. :)

Brilliant!! Thank you for this!!!

I have a very curios question: why the circle of fifths works? For example, why it happens that the number of alterations regularly increases going along this circle?

This is a great video. Thank you.

Hello Mark, Yes, this does work, I do it all the time; so have several of our family going back at least two generations, as I remember, Sometimes it helps to imagine it is someone else talking to you, someone who you respect well. John R. ALCM organist.

Excellent advice for someone like me that vacillates between feeling accomplished and feeling useless.

Thanks! 😊

A no-brainer. I have some interesting keyboard chords that have come up, getting better at playing them could be a lot of fun, but the underlay placement of old-russian words in the faster passages of Rachmaninoff's massive All-night Vigil will be needed very soon in a real concert, so it will make a big difference right now to have the words aspect of even one of those repeatably correct. That might make it seem possible to do the same with two or three more similar fast passages in the work.

Nice simple lesson Mark. You know I've spent a lifetime coaching sport and I find coaching myself in a positive way, as a musician or anything else, is natural. I've never seen or heard the advice about using your own name before. What a simple, clever and effective technique that is. I saw an article on the news last night about a hospice that has a telephone kiosk in the garden for bereaved people to go into and have conversations with a person they have lost. It strikes me "the wind telephone" would be a useful tool in this form of coaching. Or, come to that, helping people through mental health crises. Thanks for all the advice. I am using the stuff I got from the Road Map course daily, so thanks for that too.

I have to say my graduation speach and i will use this thats❤❤

Need this rn, my brain feels overloaded with information, I’m studying 4 different instruments and whew 😂 need to find some good methods so thank you

Really liking your videos.

Awesomeness thx

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I would be fully occupied just with the timing.

A few years ago, I took your course on how to practice. I enjoy reading your emails in the morning over tea. You have had a profound impact on my music. I now have a music room where my band (which I didn’t have before) comes to rehearse every week. Every morning, after tea, I go in there to practice with an idea about what I want to accomplish. My playing has moved forward in ways I had always hoped for but that had always felt out of reach. Thank you doesn’t express my gratitude well enough.

Very articulate and the content is on spot! Motivating- Thank you!🎻🎵🌻

If they work on me I will subscribe to your Chanel

First minute is a waste

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Excellent and solid advice! Last night I got unexpectedly upset before a performance which threatened to destroy my concentration. Deep breathing and some gentle physical movements helped me relax and then I thought about the audience. I ended up giving my best performance!

Good morning, I am so happy to view your ideas, methods and numerous ways in which to get better at playing music. You have given in sight into why certain things we've been told does not work. I often wonder why I don't seem to improve, you have unveiled those reasons thank you. I would love to learn more and support your channel, tell me how I can become a part of your community, again thanks, Edward Henderson

Juggling really helped slow things down. It is also impossible to be sad when you juggle. Also made me realise why studying math is so hard. It's not repetitive enough. I have to make my own repetitions.