Thanks to this blog, I've signed up to receive emails from Bulletproof Musician, a great website that provides articles about everything music. Since subscribing, I've gotten a couple interesting emails, but this one stood out the most to me. In the email was a link to an article about "Beyond Practicing".
Beyond Practicing is a home-study course that helps musicians figure out the best way to bring their musical capabilities to a performance. It acknowledges the disconnect many musicians face between the low-stress practice room and the anxiety-ridden, shaking fingers reality of being on stage with an audience. The course itself seems really helpful, although it also costs money to take. If you're interested, I'll leave the link for anyone to check out the course. If nothing else, check out the article describing the course, because I found it very interesting.
One thing that stood out to me in the article was that the creator of the program, Dr. Noa Kageyama, is a sport and performance psychologist. He started as a musician, attending Julliard for performance, but now he focuses on the psychology of performance in musical and athletic situations. I think it's really interesting that he draws a line of connection between music and sports. Often we discredit the similarities because many musicians don't consider themselves athletic. In reality, the two are similar pursuits of passion and performance.
Sorry this post kind of went in two directions! Feel free to comment on either portion, Beyond Practicing or the connection between sports and music.
http://my.bulletproofmusician.com/beyond-practicing-2/
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