I bought Effortless Mastery and thought it was a waste of time - which I don't have enough of. I do like Seymour Bernsteins with your own two hands. I found his chapter of Performance Problems especially helpful.
On Sep 20, 9:21 am, Jason Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > I have heard good things about a book called Effortless Mastery by > Kenny Werner. > > http://www.amazon.com/Effortless-Mastery-Liberating-Master-Musician/d... > > > > On Monday, September 20, 2010, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Free Play; Improvisation in Life and Art" by Stephen Nachmonovitch is > > another partially dry but good read on improvising. > > Bugger > > > On Sep 16, 7:24 pm, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree re Wooten's book, the other titles are interesting here. > > >> I am slowly grinding my way though one called > >> "The Perfect Wrong Note" by William Westney. It is geared to piano, > >> however the tips can be used by anyone. It is about learning to trust > >> your musical self and offers great suggestions to improve the pay off > >> when practicing with an eye to efficient use of time to improve > >> overall playing. > > >> It is very dry, but the ideas are top drawer. > > >> linda > > >> On Sep 17, 1:33 am, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > If you haven't seen or heard about Victor Wooten's book, "The Music > >> > Lesson", you might look it up. It's a bit of a flight of fantasy > >> > (maybe?), but he does get to the heart of the subject. I seem to > >> > remember Tater saying something about reading it at one point or > >> > another. > > >> > While I'm on the subject of books, another one I like is called "The > >> > Art of Practicing" by Madeline Bruser. It's got all kinds of stretches > >> > in it and really focuses on posture/relaxing/no tension/no injuries > >> > while playing. It also explores the deeper meaning of playing music, > >> > as does Victor's book. > > >> > There's another book whose title escapes me at the moment (my memory > >> > is good, it's just short), a kind of journal about a classical > >> > guitarist who has quit playing for a while and then picks up the > >> > guitar again. The book is about his rediscovery of his love for > >> > playing music. I remember it as having some good stuff in it. Anyone > >> > know the title of that one? > > >> > What books have you folks found that have helped you deepen your > >> > understanding of playing music? I'm not talking mando instruction > >> > books as much as books that explore playing/practicing music. Maybe we > >> > could start at Taterbug Reading List. > > >> > -- > >> > My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and > >> > mandocellohttp://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Taterbugmando" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
