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I’m back – with a new book!
The Musician’s Brain isn’t defunct, although you may wonder where I have been for the past 2 years. Actually, I spent the Covid years writing a book, and The Musical Brain: what students, teachers, and performers need to know, will be released by Oxford on March 3. (Oxford is offering a discount to my blog…
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From sight-reading to memorized performance
If you have performed from memory, you no doubt have had the experience of an audience member coming up after a concert and saying in amazement “How did you learn so many notes?” In the last few posts about memory, we’ve talked about learning and memory as two sides of the same coin, about the many…