The second part of Adina Mornell’s course teaches you how to optimise your practising for enjoyable, rewarding sessions and long-lasting success.
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Ask a Classical musician if practising is fun and they will likely tell you that their daily sessions involve long hours of hard work filled with lots of repetition to solidify technique. On the other hand, a Jazz musician might tell you that every day is different and that they don’t think of practising as work! Why the difference?
The second part of Adina Mornell’s course builds on the first part, taking the knowledge about how the brain works, ways music can be learnt and memory strengthened and applying it to optimise your practising. Over the course of three workshops interspersed with practical exercises, you will discover how to tweak your practice strategies for more enjoyable, rewarding sessions and long-lasting success!
Each of the workshops will be followed up by assignments that allow you to experiment – and have fun – with the learned material. You’ll discover innovative learning methods and learn how to employ new and individualised strategies that recognise and build on your strengths.
Workshop 1: Reframing Practice Methods and Goals
Building on knowledge gained in the first set of workshops, we’ll embark on an examination of practice habits. By exploring the ways past experiences and expectation influence motivation, you’ll find out how to set realistic goals and take the reins of your practice time. Be surprised at how quality trumps quantity!
Workshop 2: Employing the Powerful Tool of Self-Talk
We can’t expect to do something on stage we haven’t prepared at home. This applies not only to our understanding of the music we are playing, our interpretation of it and the skill we need in order to perform it, but also to monitoring our own thoughts and filtering them for distraction. With a few simple steps, you can become a better friend to yourself as a musician.
Workshop 3: Creating a Recipe for Practice Success
Creativity and experimentation in practice are what allows both amateurs and professionals to enjoy their time at the piano, while enhancing learning and reaffirming the positive mindset. This session will summarise and apply concepts from the two previous workshops while introducing deliberate practice and desirable difficulties: two sensational and scientific approaches to practice that build a bridge to the future.
Join us to collect even more ingredients for your own recipe for enjoyable practice and see how you can be authentic and positive in your musicianship!
Adina Mornell, classical pianist and recording artist, received her PhD in Music Psychology and Instrumental Pedagogy in Vienna. As professor at the music university in Munich, she conducts empirical studies in the field of musical performance science. Her teaching and research focus on deliberate practice, attentional focus and the intersection of neuroscience and music psychology. As a solo pianist, she has had several CDs released worldwide; her books and articles (in English and German) address performers and teachers.