Author(s): Christopher Berg
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 208
Tags: Practice
Half Title
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Examples and Table
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Ian
The Governor’s School
More Than Just the Next Repetition
Desirable Difficulties
Fallacies Explored and Too Much Energy
Bridging the Yawning Abyss
Transformation, Not Mindless Repetition
The Rote to Ruin
Mindlessness. Mindfulness. Return to Mindlessness
Hobgoblins of Little Minds
A Little Island in an Infinite Sea
Foolish Consistencies
2 A Foundation of Knowledge and Skill
Information and Knowledge
Novices and Experts
The Center
Structure Building
Building Structures
Practice by Design or Waste Your Time
The Technique-From-Pieces Fallacy
Rule Learners and Example Learners
A Dreadful Muddle
More Than I Can Express in Words …
A Hateful Habit?
Spaced, Interleaved, and Varied Practice
What These Strategies Are
How These Strategies Help
Freeing the Future
3 Chunking
The Magical Number Seven
Mental, Physical, and Perceptual Chunking
Motor Programs and the Time Paradox
Explicit and Implicit Skill
Choking and Other Curses
Prototypical Chunking, or Dr. Wullner’s Blocks
The More You Master the Chunks, the More You Master the Whole
The Technique of Exercise
Myelin
4 Mental Work
Saved From Unprofitable Blundering
Karl Leimer and Visualization
Myelin … Again
Let the Future In
Daylight Upon the Magic
Don’t Waste Fine Feeling on Wrong Notes
Tips and Hints for Learning by Heart
Learning to Memorize
5 Slow Practice
Fitts’s Law
Prerequisite for Better Slow Practice
Great Artists and Teachers of the Past on Slow Practice
The Slower You Go, the Faster You’ll Progress
Alexander’s Civil War
Inhibition
Stopping-Practice
Very Softly and Not Too Fast
Well, You Get the Idea
6 Variety in Repetition
Repetition, Repetition, With Variety
Rhythmic Variations
Applications of Rhythm Patterns
Dynamics and Voicing
7 Continuity
Performing Time
A Fluttering of Chaff
An Unbroken Mood-Line
The Floating Fermata
The Forest and the Trees
Continuity in Performance
8 Phrase-Storming
The Kernel of the Profession
Try Practicing for Beauty
Vision and a Passion for Variants
The Thousand Cuts of Competence
The Wet Sponge
Preconceived Notions
Exploration, Experimentation, and Playfulness
9 Feedback and Self-Criticism
Contaminated Perceptions and Points of View
Imaginary States and Other Illusions
Motivation and Reward
Corrective Feedback
Errorless Learning?
The First Step to Greatness
Self-Criticism as Self-Cultivation
10 Codetta
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
