Part 2/3: Practice Tools (series: For the Love of Music Practice by Katelyn Emerson)

Written, recorded, and produced by Katelyn Emerson

For the American Guild of Organists’ Virtual Pipe Organ Encounter 2021

Music during opening and closing:
IV Naiades (from Pièces de Fantasie, Quatrième Suite, Op. 55, 1926-7)
Louis Vierne (1870—1937)

Played by Katelyn Emerson
1937 Wicks organ, Op. 1503, III/P/63, voiced by Henry Vincent Willis
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception
Peoria, Illinois, USA

0:16 Brief review of practice motivations and why it is important to practice well
1:04 Mythbusting! Why "10,000 hours" aren't the most important thing for mastery
1:45 Two steps for practice prep
3:28 The essentiality of listening
4:10 Start with music

Eleven Practice Tools
4:41 Introduction
5:18 Tool 1: Memory stick
5:35 Tool 2: Divide and conquer
5:51 Tool 3: Fingerings
7:04 Tool 4: Slow practice
7:49 Tool 5: Thoughtful metronome use
8:25 Tool 6: Parts together? Parts apart?
9:09 Tool 7: For scalar passages
11:50 Tool 8: For chordal passages
13:24 Tool 9: Approaching big leaps
13:49 Tool 10: NIENTE
16:24 Tool 11: Practice performing

16:46 Try this!

Part 1, A Reason to Practice, can be found here: https://youtu.be/0WjOwmREQ68

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