SELF EVALUATION

Yet another great piece of advice from The Musician's Way.....click the link below to read the complete article.

http://musiciansway.com/blog/2010/05/self-evaluation-the-key-to-artful-practice/

“The single most important goal for performing artists
is to see how they are doing.”

–Itzhak Perlman, violinist (The Musician’s Way, p. 202)

Suppose that you’re practicing a new piece. How do you know that one portion is learned securely enough for you to tackle another?

Later on, how do you determine that the music is concert-ready?

Then, following a performance, what enables you to pinpoint the aspects of your execution that need polishing?

The answer, of course, is accurate self-evaluation.

We musicians display our knack for self-assessment with every phrase that we play or sing. Our performances inescapably reveal whether we truly hear ourselves and perceive the impact of our delivery.