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College | Flute | Musicians | Just Thoughts | My Notes | Performance
Choosing the Right Private Lesson Teacher: Key Considerations
How to Learn a Piece of Music | A Comprehensive Guide
Stuck on how to approach learning a new piece of music? This post goes through the best ways to explore your newfound piece, and the first steps to learning it.
Music Terms Definitions, Lingo and Other Words
Music is a foreign language. Much like any other language, it has terms and definitions that all musicians should know forwards and backward like the back of their hand. This blog defines and indentifies these terms and language you need to know.
How To Write a Bio (for Musicians)
This is your big break. Every successful individual has a story, and that story needs to be told. Your bio may be one of the most important parts of your career. This blog will detail how to write a bio and the most important parts to include in it.
Listening Guide for Music | Intentional Listening | Passive, Active, Analytical and Contextual
How do you listen to music? it is a process that differs person to person. This guide seeks to provide ways and examples on how to listen to music, through examining my own music listening process.
What do I do if I do not like my Private Lesson Teacher
For some music students, there will always be a professor, instructor, or teacher that perhaps you do not always see eye to eye with. This blog will outline step by step what to do in these situations, and give you the best options of how to repair (or not) the relationship.
I have Severe Performance Anxiety | Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and Music
The excerpt touches on how performance anxiety, panic/anxiety attacks, and nerves affects a person and affected me and my music making. Personal anecdotes describe my journey into the profession of music and, along the journey I elaborate upon how I dealt with managing all of this.
The Benefits of Private lessons
The Pros to taking private music instruction and or lessons. Reasons to as why anyone, young or old should study privately with an applied music teacher.
Grants for Musicians (and more)
How to Dress for an Audition or Performance: A Musician’s Guide to Attire
A note to those who are taking lessons with me
My Favorite Websites
Youtube Channels to Follow
Attending your First Classical Concert? Awesome, Here’s What you Need to Know
The blog contains ways to make your very first and subsequent classical music concert experience enjoyable! Many of the procedures and etiquette that occurs at such venues is unspoken and almost something that only a musician themselves would know or someone who frequents classical concerts. This post aims to help you navigate the experience with ease, and to make you feel as if you have been doing this your entire life!
How to Dress for a Recital or Performance
What to wear for a music performance. The ifs, ands, do’s, and don’ts, to not having to waste hours and many an outfits changes just before the performance. Tips on how to stay stylish but within appropriate parameters.
How Do I Prepare for a Performance, Audition, Jury, or Recital?
A guide to preparatory measures in regard to music performances, auditions, juries, and recitals. The blog also serves as an introduction to common music practices, such as performance, rehearsal and orchestral etiquette.
Welcome to The Anxious Musician
The Anxious Musician serves as a modern take on the realm of classical music as a profession. Through the lens a BIPOC, it serves as a way of dealing with common music student/professional issues and providing resources to musicians that do not quite fit the “mold” of western music education institutions.