Practice Links

Must Have Books

• The Sol Ut Bookstore: Find all the books below and several more. Personally selected for quality. A few pennies of your purchase goes into our coffers, This helps us keep the lights on and allows us to continue to give away great music resources. Thanks! We've got books, recording gear, mutes, and more, all personally selected.
• The Musician's Way by Gerald Klickstein: One of the best books out there on practice. For an in-depth review, go here.
• The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten, master of the electric bass. For an in-depth review, go here.
• The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green. Another excellent read on how to think about music and practice. Green writes from a classical perspective, but it's good advice no matter your genre. For an in-depth review, go here.
• The Mastery of Music, by Barry Green. More excellent advice on music and practice. Green writes from a classical perspective, but it's good advice no matter your genre. For an in-depth review, go here.
• Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner. An excellent philosophy on how to play, listen to, and practice music. Changed my own musical practice radically! For an in-depth review, go here.
• This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin. This is an excellent introduction to how the musical brain processes sound. For an in-depth review, go here.
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. Another great primer on the perception of music. Good read.
• Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch. If you're interested in improvising (and if you play an instrument that makes a sound, you should be), this is a must-read. Lots of interesting material about music and the playing of it. For an in-depth review, go here.

Technology to Help w/ Practice

• Practice Gear: our very own store. Lots of gear to help with practice (metronomes to tuners to mp3 recording devices). A few pennies of your purchase goes into our coffers, This helps us keep the lights on and allows us to continue to give away great music resources. Thanks! We've got books, recording gear, mutes, and more, all personally selected.
• Audacity: By far the best piece of free audio manipulation software out there. Very well supported w/ help files, too. Simple to use and understand. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) files are here in wiki form.

Blogs

• The Practice of Practice: Drawn from over 31 years of practice (and counting) and informed by hundreds of research studies on aspects of practice. Blogger is a PhD student and his dissertation is on practice.
• The Savvy Musician: A good blog on the business aspects of music making for fun and profit.
• A Blog Supreme: Many posts on jazz. Perhaps too many. All of them good.

   

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