Adult students: Your favorite book on practicing?

[bernadette60614]

I'm gathering recommendations for my own library.

Thanks, everyone!  Happy practicing.

[bronnestam]

The e-book series by Graham Fitch. Called - tadah! - "Practising the Piano"

For great insights I also strongly recommend "The Perfect Wrong Note" by William Westney, together with "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle. Not specifically about piano or piano practice, but very good and inspirational reading.

[dogperson]

Graham Fitch also has great video tutorials on YouTube regarding practicing.

Another internet resource is ‘The Bulletproof Musician’.


Book: roger Chafgin’s book ‘Practicing Perfection’.  Quite expensive and dense reading.   The last section of the book is devoted to a concert pianist who taped  all of her thoughts as she was learning the Bach Italian suite.

[lsjshengll]

I think there should be a question: What style of music do you like? 

[progman]

Playing the piano for pleasure - Chas. Cooke

The art of practicing - Madeline Bruser

[keypeg]

I think there should be a question: What style of music do you like? 

You mean in the context of practising?

[pianorookie]

I have the book:
Practiceopedia: The Big Practice Help Book by Phillip Johnston and like it quite a lot. It is a wordy book with a lot of long explanations for things that are simple enough to understand. But, he has quite a few strategies for all kind of practice situations, a lot of them very obvious but ones that you might not think about consciously (e.g. a chapter on practicing long passages in small chunks and then putting those chunks together, a chapter on how to use the metronome etc).

[timothy42b]

While this youtube video is intended for a different instrument, it has application to piano as well.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+sulliman+trombone&view=detail&mid=84B4F6397E0B80905BB584B4F6397E0B80905BB5&FORM=VIRE