Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Conceptualizing and Scheduling Goals

I like the focus this chapter makes on setting goals. Here are some ideas on how to set goals with your students.

How to Make Students Accountable with Piano Practice Targets and Goals

Piano Student Goal-Setting Worksheet

A Must-Do Activity During Your First Week of Piano Teaching

Are You the Piano Coach or Player?

Teaching With the Student’s Goals in Mind

-----
You just finished reading Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Conceptualizing and Scheduling Goals.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Physical Support for Performance

"In shopping for such a pattern, look for a basic core of knowledge about diet, exercise, and rest and adapt it to your particular case."
(page 35, Kindle edition)

"Once you have established a personalized set of beneficial lifestyle choices, you need to see how it will benefit your performance goals; seeing the connection will help you stick to this template for optimum health. Longtime investment will result in physical reserves that will enable you to handle the periods of tension and stress attending performance."
(page 36, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Physical Support for Performance.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Why We Perform

I found one of the excercises at the end of the chapter really intriguing, and I thought it might also be a fun idea to use with students.

"Make a list of ten musical works that represent ultimate challenges for you. Imagine the excitement you will feel one day as you step out on stage to perform each of these pieces."
(page 32, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Why We Perform.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Assessing Yourself

"To complicate matters, the ability to turn in a successful performance stubbornly resists codification, and to some extent remains a mercurial art. After decades of study and research, the components that make up successful performance remain elusive, differing not only from individual to individual but also from circumstance to circumstance. Even after years of experience, veteran performers cannot and do not take for granted the skills necessary to turn in a first-rate performance."
(page 7, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Assessing Yourself.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

Lesson Resources on Rachmaninoff

Here are some resources you can use with your students to work through different pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

- background on Rachmaninoff

- Classical Music Lessons for Kids - Daisies // Rachmaninoff

- Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances

- Reggae to Rachmaninoff

- Lapbooks on Clementi and Rachmaninoff


-----
You just finished reading Lesson Resources on Rachmaninoff.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.