Music Ed Mentor Podcast #034: Playing the Inner Game of Music

Key Takeaways

We need to maintain our relationship with music

When our livelihoods begin to depend on music, our relationship with music – originally based simply on joy – can get tested. We can learn to remain connected with that original joy.

Turn up the music

“Find some sounds to drown out the shouts.” We must learn to amplify the music in our minds to drown out our anxieties.

The number one tip we can learn from the Inner Game of Music?

We need to be informed, and sometimes educated, to things that may not be in the normal pedagogy. There are two kinds of feeling or energy – that which is inside us and which is in the music itself. We can learn to merge the two.

podcastElisa Janson JonesOctober 19, 2018learn music, practicing music, confidence, imposter syndrome, performances, performance anxiety, inner game, batch 2