Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Ensuring Quality

Since this chapter focused on quality, I've rounded up some resources on helping your students develop good tone.

5 Ways Beginning Piano Students Can Sound Better… Faster

Piano Tone Production

Does approaching notes in different ways at the piano affect tone production?

4 Reasons Why Animals Help in Teaching Music Tempo and Articulation

Express Yourself Matching Game

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Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Techniques to Develop Secure Memorization

This chapter focused on memorization, so here are some tips to helping your students memorize their music.

Taming the Piece Beast: An Easy Tip to Memorize Piano Music

12 Tips for Memorizing Piano Music

6 Quick Tips for Memorizing Music

30+1 Ways To Help You Memorize Music Flawlessly

The Best Way to Memorize Piano Notes

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Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Dealing with Repetition and Drill

Since this chapter focused on repetitions and drills, here are some resources on helping your students develop their musical abilities with drills.

Make Ear Training Fun

Fun Games for Helping Kids Develop Good Piano Technique

Building Strength and Dexterity

I Like Sticky Candyfloss: Finger Strength Exercise

5 Simple Exercises to Help Relax Your Hands

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Mastering the Art of Performance - Reading Together - Keeping Preparation Fresh and Focused

"Conceptualizing musical performance goals and planning a procedure to achieve them are often hard to institute. Novices often feel that it is much easier just to wade in and start working. Even those experienced in performance find that their lives are geared to a repetitive cycle of activities designed to prepare and produce performance events. Such a cycle is almost always tied to a timetable of some sort, so that getting ready to perform and meeting the challenge of the next deadline tend to be all-consuming activities often attended by pressure. As a result, these individuals feel they have no time to stop for some vaguely beneficial reorientation. Yet conceptualization and planning are fundamental to performance success. The energy needed to undertake and sustain any performance is generated by our ability to glimpse an overall to conceive a mega-goal, a larger plan, with as much clarity as possible. Moreover, focusing on a goal and direction renews motivation by helping to pinpoint what it is we are attempting to achieve and by what route we plan to get there. In addition, we garner an understanding of the connections between our immediate tasks and the achievements we hope to forge over the long haul."
(page 41, Kindle edition)

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