Playing your best when it counts : mental skills for musicians : high performance workbook / Bill Moore.

Author/creator Moore, Bill, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoNorman, OK : Moore Performance Consulting, 2010.
Description98 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Subjects

Variant title High performance workbook
Contents Introduction: mental skills development -- Getting unstuck. The practice mindset ; The performance mindset ; Trust as your performance goal -- Playing your best. Understanding your best performances ; Understanding your worst performances ; Playing your best ; Steps for creating your performance script -- Your performer vision. Clarifying your performer vision ; Embracing your performer vision ; Mental barriers and solutions -- Sustaining performance excellence. Self-leadership and self-management ; Barriers to sustaining excellence ; Strategies for overcoming goal barriers -- Mental performance skills. Courage as a performance skill ; Trust as a performance skill ; Acceptance as a performance skill -- Courage: overcoming fear and self-doubt. How butterflies become dragons ; Preparing to be courageous ; Steps to instilling pre-performance courage ; Your performance preparation ; Your performance game plan -- Trust: getting out of your own way. The inner battle ; Trusting the untrustworthy ; Recognizing break downs in trust ; Training trust -- Acceptance: focusing and refocusing without judgment. Acceptance as a performance skill ; Acceptance expands attentional capabilities ; Acceptance strategies -- Getting where you want to go. Positive rituals ; Weekly planning ritual ; My weekly roles and goals ; My weekly schedule ; Practice planning ritual ; My weekly practice plan ; Keeping a daily practice journal.
Abstract "This workbook was created as a supplement to Playing Your Best When It Counts: Mental Skills for Musicians"--Page 2.
Abstract This workbook provides an in-depth understanding of the mental performance skills along with extensive application activities for helping you play your best under a variety of performance situations. It teaches the reader how to: approach each performance with a confident mindset; respond more effectively to unexpected events; play with more courage and trust; prepare mentally for performances; and play your best when it really counts.
ISBN9780979287312
ISBN0979287316

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3830 .M77 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold