Table of Contents

Part One - The Practice Way

How you go about learning a piece of music.

Part Two - The Technical Way

What your hands, fingers, and arms do.

  • Attack 8
  • Fingering 8
  • Position 9
  • Rests 11
  • Execution 12
  • Dynamics 17
  • Tempo 17

Part Three - The Mental Way

How you think about what you do.

  • Attitude 18
  • State of Mind 19
  • Visualization 21
  • Model 23
  • Spatial Orientation 24
  • Problems/Solutions 24
  • Practice 25
  • Listening 27
  • Patterns 28
  • Evaluation 28

Part Four - The Interpretive Way

How you communicate your musical message.

  • Character 33
  • Phrasing 34
  • Drama 34
  • Measures 34
  • Melody 35
  • Continuity 35
  • Pedal 35
  • Perception 36
  • Sharing 37

Part Five - Memorization

How to go about memorizing a piece of music.