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Music Mastery & Talent (Fundamentals (dedicated to the basics (The…

- - - - the story of the skateboarders - they find motivation in wanting to be like the guy doing the cool tricks; they don't just want to learn to skate, they want to BE the guy skating
- - - - The closer feedback moves our attention to ourselves, the worse it is for us. The research showed that experts - people who were masters at a trade - vastly preferred negative feedback to positive. It spurred the most improvement. (see other ppl do it wrong to catch mistakes and improve yourself)
  - - - 1) Avoid Someone Who Reminds You of a Courteous Waiter
        2) Seek Someone Who Scares You a Little. Look for someone who: Watches you closely, is action-oriented, and is honest, sometimes unnervingly so.
        3) Seek Someone Who Gives Short, Clear Directions
        4) Seek Someone Who Loves Teaching Fundamentals
        5) Other Things Being Equal, Pick the Older Person
    - - SIX WAYS TO BE A BETTER TEACHER OR COACH
        1) Use the First Few Seconds to Connect on an Emotional Level. Effective teaching is built on trust. Before you can teach, you have to show that you care.
        2) Avoid Giving Long Speeches - Instead, Deliver Vivid Chunks of Information. Short, targeted, customized messages to each student, one at a time.
        3) Be Allergic to Mushy Language. All good teaching follows the same blueprint: Try this concrete thing. Now try this concrete thing. Now try combining them into this concrete thing. Communicate with precise nouns and numbers - things you can see and touch and measure - and avoid adjectives and adverbs, which don’t tell you precisely what to do.
        4) Make a Scorecard for Learning. Pick a metric that measures the skill you want to develop, and start keeping track of it.
        Zappos ignored the usual scorecard and began tracking the occasions when their customer-service representatives went above and beyond the call of duty - “delivering wow,”
        5) Maximize “Reachfulness” What kind of space will create the most reachful environment? How can you replace moments of passivity with moments of active learning?
        6) Aim to Create Independent Learners
- - - - IE learning a piece or solo note for note
      - Be careful, slow, and keenly attuned to errors.
        Make one simple move at a time, repeating and perfecting it before you move on. Pay attention to errors, and fix them.
        The Suzuki music instruction method does this.
  - - - IE improvising
      - Soft skills are the result of super-fast brain software recognizing patterns and responding in just the right way.
        Soft skills are built by playing and exploring inside challenging, ever-changing environments. - (jam sessions, live performances, improvising, creating original music)These are places where you encounter different obstacles and respond to them over and over.
        Practice should be aggressive, curious, and experimental, always seeking new ways to challenge yourself.
        After each session ask yourself, What worked? What didn’t? And why? (reference my blog post: Hippy House about creating an environment to play and experiment)
        
        vocalising without the instrument: being free and creative THEN going back to analyze your patterns and what you liked to replicate later
        
        apply theory after your ear