The learning revolution that is unfolding before us is changing the way we understand and approach music practice. By incorporating contributions from other fields of knowledge, such as neuroscience and psychology, we can enhance our practice habits and make them more efficient, accessible, and creatively engaging.
By this time, you’ve had the opportunity to build a rich resource of new ways of thinking about and doing your music practice, that will lead you to much faster, more satisfying, and more musical results.
Feel free to return to this chapter as many times as you like and use it as a template for your expanding practice skills.
Remember, that even though the core principles we’ve discussed in this chapter stem from scientific research into accelerated learning, music is an art—and your playing during “practice time” can be just as much of an art as the music itself.
Like any art, skill and creativity must combine to produce unique individual expressions. You can be using the same concepts and exercises as someone else, and yet your practice sessions may look and feel very different from each other, and still both produce amazing results.