I have found a lot of online summaries of deliberate practice frustratingly vague. So I bought a well reviewed out of print manual on deliberate practice in music called The Practiceopedia. The chapter headings give some ideas about the sort of resolution being gone for. I might do a book review at some point.
Chapter guide
Beginners: curing your addiction to the start of your peace
Blinkers: shutting out the things you shouldn’t be working on
Boot camp: where you need to send passages that won’t behave
Breakthroughs diary: keeping track of your progress
Bridging: smoothing the bumps between sections
Bug spotting: because you can’t fix what you don’t know about
Campaigns: connecting your daily practice to the big picture
Cementing: locking in the version you want to keep
Chaining: getting to full speed one segment at a time
Clearing obstacles: finding what causes tricky bits to be tricky
Clock Watchers: curing the unhealthy obsession with time
Closure: knowing when you can safely stop practicing something
Color coding: a whole new dimension to marking your score
I have found a lot of online summaries of deliberate practice frustratingly vague. So I bought a well reviewed out of print manual on deliberate practice in music called The Practiceopedia. The chapter headings give some ideas about the sort of resolution being gone for. I might do a book review at some point.
Chapter guide
Beginners: curing your addiction to the start of your peace
Blinkers: shutting out the things you shouldn’t be working on
Boot camp: where you need to send passages that won’t behave
Breakthroughs diary: keeping track of your progress
Bridging: smoothing the bumps between sections
Bug spotting: because you can’t fix what you don’t know about
Campaigns: connecting your daily practice to the big picture
Cementing: locking in the version you want to keep
Chaining: getting to full speed one segment at a time
Clearing obstacles: finding what causes tricky bits to be tricky
Clock Watchers: curing the unhealthy obsession with time
Closure: knowing when you can safely stop practicing something
Color coding: a whole new dimension to marking your score
Coral reef mistakes: detecting invisible trouble spots
Cosmetics: minimizing the impact of weak capacities on concert day
Countdown charts: factoring your deadlines into your practice
Designer scales: choosing technical work to support your pieces
Details trawl: ensuring you know what’s really in the score
Dress rehearsals: setting up your own concert simulator
Engaging autopilot: the dangers of practicing without thinking
Exaggerating: overstating key ideas to embed them
Excuses and ruses: why you’ll never really fool your teacher if you haven’t practiced
Experimenting: testing different interpretation options
Fire drills: training to cope gracefully with onstage mistakes
Fitness training: behind the scenes practice to help all your pieces
Fresh photocopies: creating your own custom scores tailored for practicing
Horizontal versus vertical: knowing when to change your practice Direction
Isolating: stopping problems from interfering with each other
Lesson agenda: setting aside issues to raise at your next lesson
Lesson pre-flight check: finding out if you’re on track for next lesson
Lesson review: ensuring last lesson is fresh in your mind while you work
Level system: the astonishing power of Tiny Steps
Marathon week: pushing yourself to find out what’s really possible
Metronome method: sneaking up on full tempo
Not wanting to practice: how to manage the biggest practice crisis of all
One Way doors: eliminating the need for constant revision
Openings and endings: VIP attention for the most important parts of any performance
Painting the scene: giving your performances a cinematic Edge
Practice Buddies: using the power of competition and cooperation
Practice traps: bad habits that waste your time and wreck your playing
Pressure testing: ensuring you can produce your best playing when it counts most
Randomizing: the ultimate way to end the practice ho hums
Prototypes: building a model of the ideal performance
Recording yourself: finding out and responding to what you really sound like
Recordings: using existing performances to supercharge your preparation
Reflecting: why the best practice sometimes makes no sound at all
Restoration: relearning old pieces without regressing
Rogue cells: when the smallest unit of practice goes bad
Scouting: getting to know your new piece before you start practicing it
Session agenda: creating and working with daily practice to do lists
Shooting the movies: a smarter way to work out what’s next
Speeding: the hidden damage caused by practicing too fast
Stalling: what to do when a piece gets stuck
Thematic practice: a powerful alternative to practicing in sections
Tightening: making the leap from good enough to excellent
Triage: when there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it
Triggers: setting up cues that get you practicing in the first place
Turn around time: mastering new pieces in weeks instead of months
Varying your diet: freeing yourself from dull repetitive practice
Visualizing: the most important practice you’ll ever do
Your practice sweet spot: setting up the ultimate practice space
I definitely want that book review. Assuming the lessons are good, I’m especially interested in how transferrable they are.