Practicing Music by Design: Historic Virtuosi on Peak Performance

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CONTENTS
List of Examples and Table
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
	Ian
	The Governor’s School
	More Than Just the Next Repetition
	Desirable Difficulties
	Fallacies Explored and Too Much Energy
	Bridging the Yawning Abyss
	Transformation, Not Mindless Repetition
	The Rote to Ruin
	Mindlessness. Mindfulness. Return to Mindlessness
	Hobgoblins of Little Minds
	A Little Island in an Infinite Sea
	Foolish Consistencies
2 A Foundation of Knowledge and Skill
	Information and Knowledge
	Novices and Experts
	The Center
	Structure Building
	Building Structures
	Practice by Design or Waste Your Time
	The Technique-From-Pieces Fallacy
	Rule Learners and Example Learners
	A Dreadful Muddle
	More Than I Can Express in Words …
	A Hateful Habit?
	Spaced, Interleaved, and Varied Practice
	What These Strategies Are
	How These Strategies Help
	Freeing the Future
3 Chunking
	The Magical Number Seven
	Mental, Physical, and Perceptual Chunking
	Motor Programs and the Time Paradox
	Explicit and Implicit Skill
	Choking and Other Curses
	Prototypical Chunking, or Dr. Wullner’s Blocks
	The More You Master the Chunks, the More You Master the Whole
	The Technique of Exercise
	Myelin
4 Mental Work
	Saved From Unprofitable Blundering
	Karl Leimer and Visualization
	Myelin … Again
	Let the Future In
	Daylight Upon the Magic
	Don’t Waste Fine Feeling on Wrong Notes
	Tips and Hints for Learning by Heart
	Learning to Memorize
5 Slow Practice
	Fitts’s Law
	Prerequisite for Better Slow Practice
	Great Artists and Teachers of the Past on Slow Practice
	The Slower You Go, the Faster You’ll Progress
	Alexander’s Civil War
	Inhibition
	Stopping-Practice
	Very Softly and Not Too Fast
	Well, You Get the Idea
6 Variety in Repetition
	Repetition, Repetition, With Variety
	Rhythmic Variations
	Applications of Rhythm Patterns
	Dynamics and Voicing
7 Continuity
	Performing Time
	A Fluttering of Chaff
	An Unbroken Mood-Line
	The Floating Fermata
	The Forest and the Trees
	Continuity in Performance
8 Phrase-Storming
	The Kernel of the Profession
	Try Practicing for Beauty
	Vision and a Passion for Variants
	The Thousand Cuts of Competence
	The Wet Sponge
	Preconceived Notions
	Exploration, Experimentation, and Playfulness
9 Feedback and Self-Criticism
	Contaminated Perceptions and Points of View
	Imaginary States and Other Illusions
	Motivation and Reward
	Corrective Feedback
	Errorless Learning?
	The First Step to Greatness
	Self-Criticism as Self-Cultivation
10 Codetta
Bibliography
About the Author
Index