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Lighting the path of understanding. Seven short classes that turn the practice science everyone quotes into steps you can use in your very next session.
The Masterclasses
Each class is a 30 minute lecture packed with detail, a 30 minute Q and A, and step by step PDFs you can put on the music stand. $37 each, or $197 for all seven.
The principle behind all high achievement practice. We read books about it and still do not know what to do minute to minute. I break it into a few steps that work for anyone, from beginner to master. K. Anders Ericsson mapped the process in 1993, and he watched me present this in 2017.
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Were you ever taught how to memorize, or taught anything about memory at all? School gave us plenty of tests that needed it. There are proven ways to build memorization the same way you build muscle, and once you know them you get faster at it over time.
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Figuring it out. We ask players who are great at improv to teach it, but they cannot remember their own first step, or the one after that. Learn creativity at the most basic level, and watch how fast it moves once that part clicks.
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Where to start. Whether it is notation, chord charts, or tab, most of us cannot get notes off the page without a fight. The first step is a physical eye skill called saccades that almost nobody teaches. A few minutes each session is all it takes.
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The greatest thing you have never heard of. We talk about muscle memory and ignore the brain that runs the muscles. Ditch the 25, 50, and 100 rep grind and get strong and automatic with fewer reps in a week than you used to do in a day.
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Like safe steroids for technique. Ever change the rhythm on a passage and watch it improve, then watch it stop working? The rhythm was never the point. It was desirable difficulty, and there are many ways to produce it for a lifetime of improvement.
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Not what you think. This is the four decades of research by Carol Dweck at Stanford, not the poster in the school hallway. It explains why most of us cannot get out of our own way when we learn, and once you can see it, you can get past it.
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Every masterclass, every Q and A, and all of the step by step PDFs, at the discounted price. This is the whole path from where you are to how learning really works in practice.
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A True Story
The first research I dug into was K. Anders Ericsson's work on skill development. In 2017 Florida State University invited me to present on deliberate practice and the related pieces of what I call the ecosystem of learning. FSU is also where Ericsson did his research, and he came to one of my lectures.
I live in Los Angeles, so famous people do not rattle me. Ericsson did. I started the lecture, went to put up the slide describing the process he discovered, and it hit me who was sitting there. I had never run any of it by him. Talk about stage fright. Try abject fear. I had no choice, so I kept going.
He was kind enough to talk with me several times afterward and offered a few small critiques. On my explanation of his process, including the new way I taught it and the pieces I had added, he did not want to change a thing. That is the job. I take research that is very hard to read and explain it to real people, so you can skip a decade of digging.
One note on the ten thousand hour rule. Ericsson's research found that the top students at one music conservatory had practiced about ten thousand hours on average. They were not masters yet, and it was an average, not a finish line. Malcolm Gladwell turned it into a rule to market his book Outliers. Ericsson wrote about all of it himself in Peak.
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