Title: The Music Lesson
Author: Victor L. Wooten
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How I got the book: A mentor of mine gave it to me a couple of weeks ago
How long it took to read: 75 minutes / 1 reading session
Read cover-to-cover: YES / no
Favorite lines: (Page # and line)
40. Very good. Now, we have ten different but equal parts of Music: notes, articulation, technique, feel, dynamics, rhythm, tone, phrasing, space, and listening.
82. They [children] may not realize what they’re doing, but by opening their minds to all the information available to them, their power of imagination and creation becomes limitless, which means their potential is limitless. You don’t get an imagination like that through concentration.
91. Through practice and repetition, could it be that you are just convincing yoru muscles and your mind that they already know what to do? Maybe that’s the primary function of practicing. My Take Away: Question for ya: where do you learn more, from
Success?
or from Failure?
Before you make a quick decision, consider where you learn the most.
Sure, we can look back on success and realize how well we did, how things worked in our favor. "Success leaves clues," you've probably heard that before...and, it's true. Upon completion of a successful event (or week, or project, or day!) it helps to stop, turn back and process that. What happened and what lead to success?
Failure, likewise, holds lessons. I can look back on things that I did that did NOT pan out the way that I had planned and I can learn all kinds of things. The real trick is to NOT go negative. Instead of "wishing things were different," look back on what happened and study the aspects of it that you could imagine presenting themselves again in the future.
Then, see yourself "doing it the way you would want to do it" in your mind.
Victor's book, The Music Lesson gave me a good overview "success." But, there was an underlying theme (not exactly overt...) that made me think something like, "I've got to be on the edge, ready to fail 'cause I'm so engaged and involved." That can mean a lot of things to different people...
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