Improve Your Music

There is an old sporting saying that applies very well to music.
“Play on your strengths, train on your weaknesses.”
Put simply it means that a performance is not the time to try out your new stuff. One of the greatest assets you can have as a performer is confidence. Confidence comes from knowing “your [...]

Practice makes perfect, right? Almost. Practice is always central to any improvement in playing your musical instrument. Practice by itself is not enough though. To make genuine improvement you need to modify the old saying slightly.
From:
“Practice makes perfect.”
To:
“Perfect practice makes perfect.”
It’s a small but very important difference. What it means is that you need to [...]