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Why Study or Review a Score?

because...

Knowing not only your part, but those around you gives you the best possible chance for performance success. Having an accurate aural picture of where your part fits in to the entire work is also an incredibly enriching practice. It makes every successive rehearsal and performance a building block to better playing and greater enjoyment for you and your listeners.

Rehearsal: Listening Always - And Risking Being Heard

You've heard me in rehearsals encourage the "presence" with which you play and the ability to engage in the moment with your fellow ensemble members by listening as closely as you can and making real time adjustments. Once you can hear others' parts interact with your own, your musical instincts take over and you sound fantastic as a group. Access to that possibility exists in every moment that you play. The video below is a really good illustration of what I mean. Take some time to view it when you can really concentrate on its content. 

Two other pieces of video I think you should see, not least for their content, but also for their candor. The things referenced here apply to so many other aspects of how we can live in the world successfulyy. 

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