One-Stop Resource for Top Performing Tips

If you're a student or parent trying to help your child practice and become a better performer, this blog -- The Bulletproof Musician -- is a great resource for you! Its author, Noa Kageyama, is both an accomplished musician and a psychologist who is dedicated to helping musicians optomize their performance abilities. His most popular blog posts include the following:

• How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice?

• Why the Progress You Make in the Practice Room Seems to Disappear Overnight – PART 1

• Is Slow Practice Really Necessary?

• 8 Things Top Practicers Do Differently

• Why Improvisation Should Be Part of Every Young Musician’s Training

• How Many of Our Mistakes Do Audiences (and Other Musicians) Actually Hear?

• Why I’d Spend a Lot More Time Practicing Scales If I Could Do It All Over Again

• Why Practicing Practicing from an Early Age Is so Important

• The Cookie Thief: A Poem About How Oblivious We Can Be to How Wrong We Can Be

• Why Some Musicians Seem to Be Memorization “Naturals” (and How to Become More of One Yourself)

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