Music achievement requires effort

Music achievement requires effort

We are all very aware that performing a piece of music is not the easiest thing in the world. But it is definitely possible. How to enhance our chances and not to name our performance as a “terrible” and very “stressful” experience? In this article you are going to read about how mental practice could help us on the way of practising the piece and make us more confident in performing.

Mental practice is defined as the cognitive (thinking) rehearsal of a physical skill without movement. The most effective way of mental practise is visualisation. To visualize in piano practice, is when one imagines the act of playing the instrument in the mind’s eye, with the eye closed (Piano-ology. 2017). It has been argued that visualisation, in this context, is more effective than vision alone.

If you would like to know more about this topic, please visit WKMT website:

http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/single-post/2017/12/14/Visualization-and-me-How-could-mental-practice-enhance-focus-and-performance-experience

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