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Bonus Material for The Practice of Practice

Nearly every chapter in the book has links to more information: images, videos, books, gadgets, and more. Below is the full list of these extras. Links and QR codes are provided in all formats of the book, so with a smart phone and a QR reader you can link to the information as you finish the chapter. If you’re reading on a Web-connected device, just click on the active hyperlink. Don't have a copy? Many flavors to choose from:
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​El talento no es nada cuando se trata de mejorar.  La práctica lo es todo.  Pero ¿qué es exactamente una buena práctica?  ¿Cómo se crea el talento a través de ella?  ¿Y qué tiene que ver un molinete con todo esto?  El foco de este libro es la práctica musical, pero estas técnicas e ideas pueden aplicarse a cualquier habilidad que desees mejorar.

Aquí se abarcan las estrategias e ideas esenciales acerca de la práctica que no encontrarás en ningún otro libro.  Aprenderás el Qué, el Por qué, el Cuándo, el Dónde, el Quién, y especialmente el Cómo de la buena práctica musical.  Aprenderás lo que la investigación nos dice acerca de ella, y, lo que es aún más importante, aprenderás qué piensan los grandes músicos de diversos géneros al respecto, y qué estrategias y técnicas usan para mejorar. Este libro te ayudará a progresar más rápidamente, ya sea que toques rock, Bach o cualquier otro tipo de música.

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Part 1: What’s Goin’ On?

Chapter 1: The Chicken or the Embryo
  • Zing-Yang Kuo
  • Rex Martin
  • Sona Jobarteh
  • Prasad Upasani

Chapter 2: Spinning Wheel, Got to Go ‘Round
  • Nicholas Barron: I’m Not Superman (his website)
  • Erin McKeown
  • Erin's talks practice.

Chapter 3: Your Plastic Brain
  • IMAGE: Inner Ear Diagram, by Max Brodel
  • IMAGE: Corpus Callosum
  • Michael Merzenich: Growing Evidence of Brain Plasticity
  • Rite of Spring, Nijinsky Choreography
  • Brains: The mind as matter
  • Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung

Chapter 4: Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
  • IMAGE: The myelin sheath
  • Jazz guitarist Bobby Broom talks practice.
  • New York Philharmonic trumpeter Ethan Bensdorf on practice
  • A Myelinated Nerve
  • Coyle’s  animated explanation of myelin

Chapter 5: Fail Better
  • IMAGE: Clam Graph
  • Beethoven’s manuscript for Opus 69 (starts on page 6)
  • Watch and hear two 20th century masters play Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano & Cello

Part 2: Motivation Station

Chapter 6: Motivation for Mastery
  • 5 Experts Answer: Can Your IQ Change?
  • Trevor Ragan's summary of Carol Dweck’s work on mindsets and praise for ability over effort.
  • IMAGE: High-res FREE, printable poster (PDF)
  • Sir James Galway on Mastery

Chapter 7: Ass Power
  • Jim and Greg’s interview with Mr. George

Chapter 8: Go With the Flow
  • Leo Kottke – Interview
  • Here’s the Thing: Alex and Jamie Bernstein
  • Leo Kottke’s Drool Story
  • IMAGE: Flow diagram
  • Dr. Csíkszentmihályi on Flow

Chapter 9: Goals & Goldilocks
  • Trip Through a Sierpinski Fractal
  • IMAGE: Goals as a Sierpinski Fractal
  • IMAGE: Bolero Strum Pattern
  • Troublant Bolero

Chapter 10: Silence is Golden
  • Derek Sivers: Keep Goals Private

Part 3: The Who

Chapter 11: Monkey See, Monkey Do
  • In Walked Bud
  • Mirror neurons from the good people at Nova
  • Giacomo Rizzolatti – Mirror neurons: from monkey to human
  • Dr. Ramachandran on Mirror Neurons

Chapter 12: The Blame Game
  • IMAGE: Diagram of Attribution Theory (relationship of constants-variables in the diagram)
  • Frans de Waal: Morality in Mammals

Chapter 13: Parental Units
  • DMK’s performance
  • Sidiki Dembele, Djembefola
  • Dorado Practicing With Samson

Chapter 14: Hot For Teacher
  • Orpheum Bell’s Chain Stitched Heart
  • Duke’s Video Essays on Learning Music: Refinement
  • Taste the String
  • Alberto Guerrero’s Finger-tapping
  • Elizabeth Eshelman’s McSweeny column

Chapter 15: Under Pressure
  • Kennedy Center Honors, 2012
  • Gurewitz’s full interview

Part 4: Time Is On Your Side (yes it is)

Chapter 16: The Day Is Long, But Time Is Short
  • Maurice André Plays Tartini, 1995

Chapter 17: How Much is Enough?
  • Charlie Parker Interview
  • Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins
  • Pianist Stephen Hough

Chapter 18: Guerrilla Practice
  • Taste the String: Hans Jørgen Jensen

Chapter 19: When No Practice is Good Practice
  • Alan Lomax’s interview with Jelly Roll Morton
  • Clifford Brown Plays Sandu
  • Ingrid Jensen: Jazz Trumpeter on Practice

Chapter 20: Blame It On My Youth
  • Marsalis play the Hummel Concerto (3rd mvmt)
  • Speed-metal, punk, thrash jazz

Chapter 21: When I’m 64
  • This American Life put together a band from Chicago Sun Times classified ads
  • Alive Inside: Music & Memory

Part 5: Wherever You May Roam

Chapter 22: Trash to Treasure
  • Landfill Harmonic in Cateura

Chapter 23: Under the Influence
  • fireflies sync
  • 32 Metronomes Swinging Together
  • The Influence of Social Networks
  • Colin Oldberg: Axiom Brass

Chapter 24: In the Zone
  • IMAGE: The Zone of Proximal Development 1
  • IMAGE: The Zone of Proximal Development 2
  • Scaffolding your ZPD Knowledge
  • Learning to Practice

Chapter 25: A ‘Shed of One’s Own
  • Singing into a waterfall: Intangible Asset No. 82

Part 6: Let’s Get It On

Chapter 26: Creative Practice
  • Erin McKeown: Making Proof

Chapter 28: Practice Anatomy 101

Chapter 29: Stare With Your Ears
  • Evelyn Glennie on Listening
  • Hear and see the kora as Ms. Jobarteh plays and sings her song, Jarabi
  • Hear Bachman tell the story and get the chord details
  • Ken Nordine’s Word Jazz performances

Chapter 29: Imitation Station
  • Bobby McFerrin: Watch me play … the audience!
  • Audacity
  • Check out Bistro Fada on Soundslice
  • Wulf Hein Plays a Bone Flute

Chapter 30: Drone Power
  • Between the Folds, a Peabody-winning documentary. Watch the trailer
  • The NY Philharmonic Brass
  • Practicing with Drones
  • Zakir Hussain & Rakesh Chaurasia
  • Watch the Brothers Hypnotic on Independent Lens

Chapter 31: Going Mental
  • The Speaking Hand (trailer). View the whole thing here ($15).
  • Coltrane’s Giant Steps Animated
  • Rowan Atkinson’s Invisible Drums

Chapter 32: Chaining and Back-Chaining
  • IMAGE: Chaining Sequence
  • IMAGE: Back-chaining Sequence
  • Clifford Brown Plays Sandu

Chapter 33: Go Go Gadget Practice
  • iTablaPro: Play with Drones (do it now)
  • iReal Pro: Chord Charts and Rhythm Section
  • Tempo SloMo: Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
  • Andrew Bird’s One-Man Band
  • Pat Metheney: Gadget-Master
  • Gadgets for Music Practice
Chapter 34: Rhythmning
  • IMAGE: Tumbao and Clave in Standard Notation
  • The Tumbao Pattern on Conga
  • The Son Clave Pattern
  • Asalato: You think Drum Set is Hard?

Chapter 35: Playing with Time
  • Watch the rockumentary Everybody Here Wants You
  • John Coltrane’s blazing fast tune Countdown
  • Minor Swing by Major Masters

Chapter 36: Let’s Get Physical
  • Musicians and the Alexander Technique
  • Lori Schiff ’s video
  • Feldenkrais Method
  • An Alexander Technique Lesson

Chapter 37: Improve with Improv
  • Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation. Definitely watch his TED talk.
  • Douglas Ewart: Life is Art
  • Teach Us to Care and Not to Care
  • Bobby McFerrin & Richard Bona
  • Sonny Rollins – Spirtuality and Improvisation
Chapter 38: Compose Yourself
  • Music Outside the Lines: Ideas for Composing in the K-12 Classroom by Maud Hickey
  • Location-Aware Music
  • The Music of a True Place

Chapter 39: Plays Well with Others
  • From the documentary Sound City, with an all-star musical cast
  • Djangofest: Samois sur Seine
  • Dr. Reimer’s autobiography

Chapter 40: Cover Your Assessment
  • Gene Weingarten’s 2007 story
  • Coach’s Eye App: Notated Video/Audio
  • Garage Band: App or Program
  • Spectre: Sound Analysis

Chapter 41: You and the Night and the Music
  • Mednick's site appears to be down (try again later, maybe). She presents her research in this talk, which is up and available.
  • ​Slow-Wave Sleep and Learning
  • Mednick (2008)
  • Mednick's Sleep Wheel

Chapter 42: Performance Practice
  • Nicholas Barron: Use Me Up
  • Nicholas Barron on practice.

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