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In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 3, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195343131
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195343137
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
Reviewer: Christopher A. Davis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Practice, Performance, and Wellness
Review: The subtitle of the book is an outline of what you'll find inside. Part one deals with, "practicing deeply." It begins with the necessary, but mundane, subjects of organizing practice time and creating a supportive practice environment. Klickstein divides practice into five zone: new, developing, and performance material along with technique and musicianship. Some of these are self-explanatory, others explore ares few people venture. How much of your practice includes sight reading and ear training?The following chapters look at how to work with material in each practice zone, and cover things such as mental practice, selecting repertoire, memorization, interpretative issues, and taking breaks in practice. The material is necessarily general. A book could not contain specific practice suggestions for every major piece in every instrument's repertoire. I consider the generality of this advice a strength. The practice concepts in The Musician's Way could be easily integrated with whatever your private instructor is giving you.I have always thought that there needed to be a good, lengthy book on practicing, but I'd never found one I liked. It had gotten to the point where I thought of writing something myself. Now I don't have to. The The Musician's Way fills that gap.Part two deals with performance issues. It begins by discussing anxiety's effects on our bodies, and continues with, "five facets of preparation," and issues of backstage and pre-performance routines.What I like most about the section on performance is its practicality. In short, Mr. Klickstein is not afraid to discuss what most people consider trivial issues. Are your clothes prepared? Do you have the music? How do you start and end a piece? How do you walk out on stage? So much preparation goes into the music itself, but nothing goes into stage deportment or easy issues that, if dealt with, can help a performer be less worried and more focused.Part three covers, "lifelong creativity." This section is a discussion on injury prevention and how to succeed as a student. The injury prevention section deals with, among other things, an issue that musicians don't like to talk about: hearing damage. Simply put, this section is terrifying. I'd never even thought about most of the things the book covers, but I'm certainly glad I know about them now.The portion on succeeding as a student covers things such as the student-teacher relationship and dealing with criticism.--Quote Junkie--One of my favorite things about this book is the relevant quotes placed before each section.--Strength in Formatting--When I first started reading The Musician's Way, I was a bit put off by the numerous lists put in boxed out asides.Over the course of the book, I realized that these were a strength. The formatting and lists allow quick reviewing, making this book a solid, easily-scanned reference.If you are... * a music student * a professional musician * a serious (or not-so-serious) amateur musician * anyone else, reallyYou owe it to yourself to read this book. The concepts found in it might seem like common knowledge, but there are is some powerful gems contained within the pages of The Musician's Way.The Musician's Way and The Savvy Musician make a formidable duo of books for any musician. Together they fill major holes in any music curriculum, and offer a wealth of knowledge collected in a few hundred pages. I can't recommend either highly enough.

Reviewer: JG
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: Started reading this at the library, and decided I needed to own a copy. Great book. It is an overview of a professional musician's view of life/practice/working with others. As an amateur musician, making the transition to professional musician, it had some great insights and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.

Reviewer: Admire or not to Admire that is the question
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: a must for performing musicians
Review: Inspiring and I learned SO much about how good practice leads to confidence while playing out. Now I’m excited to perform, to try out all that I’ve learned. This book has shown how to enjoy playing my instrument and not getting stressed and burned out.

Reviewer: A. Johnston
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not what I needed
Review: First of all, let me say this book is good. The content is very good for aspiring musicians. The issue for me was that it is NOT a good book if you do not play any classical music. This is really a book for any classical musician (or singer) and is geared towards an intermediate to professional performer. This book assumes you are already performing in recitals or concert shows. This will disappoint you if you are a) beginning your journey and/or b) practicing rock, folk, country, reggae or even light jazz guitar. The one great point I learned from it is to schedule my practice time and structure it so that I am not scattered, i.e, chords, scales, arpeggios, songs, notation, theory, etc. This small bit of advice (the Cliff notes version) has helped keep me focused and on track. Other than that, this is not for guitarists who are not classically trained or training.

Reviewer: Lynnzie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Definitely the Best Practice Advice Book
Review: How to practice is a skill not often taught. I’ve read quite a few practice books and this one had been the most helpful by far. I’m so grateful I found it.

Reviewer: Wholly_Cats
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great advice for students that points you in the right direction straight off.
Review: This is super useful. It's clear, well-organized and the advice made all the difference, giving me the benefit of wisdom regarding practice and performance. I hopped around to topics that seemed particularly relevant to where I am, and that worked just fine. I liked it so much I went back to the other topics just because the initial parts were so valuable to me -- all good. I sincerely recommend this book. I'm a beginning violin player, so every bit of advice was new and useful to me. Why it was particularly useful to me, when I first started playing, I immediately knotted my neck up from practicing way too long without breaks because it was so much fun, and I had visions of virtuosity within a week. Instead, it took me about a week to lessen the knots which haven't completely disappeared. Had I read this before hand I would have known better. Live and learn. But I still am aiming for virtuosity, but now with realistic sensibilities gleaned from this book. Enjoy playing!

Reviewer: Sam
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is a fantastic book and the only one I can see in the market of it's kind. Perfect for a musician who is wanting to further their knowledge on their instrument or get out of a rut or find their way through their musicianship outside of studies. Thanks Gerald Klickstein!

Reviewer: celiz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: In my view, this book is not a musical analog to Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way (which is more spiritual and general, I think). This one is a detailed guide for consciously developing a musical practice, with sections on practice, performance, and creativity. As the Preface says, it's geared toward undergraduate music students who already have some experience with music, including reading musical notation. However, I agree with the author that anyone who wants to get serious about music would find the book useful. For me the chapters on organizing practice time and space, and on performance anxiety are worth the purchase price; but there's lots of great stuff in here that will make your musical experience richer and more productive, whatever that means to you.

Reviewer: Happy Reader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I'm a professional performer and voice/piano teacher and this well written book is full of useful ideas, well explained and easy to put into practice. Well worth the price and thank you very much to the Amazon reviewer who recommended it when I was looking for another older (and out of print) book.

Reviewer: Pablo Ochoa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Un excelente libro para músicos serios que quieren aprender a controlar su tiempo de estudio y llevar una vida saludable.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Classroom to concert all elements covered in a logical way. Goes beyond music to deal with your life as musician.