
Mapping Mastery
Mapping Mastery is a self-paced video course designed as a complete learning cycle — from orientation and goal setting to performance and reflection. It brings clarity, structure and energy to your musical growth, suppor

Hosted by Susan Williams / Christopher Collings · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 16 episodes
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Practicing is the main activity of a musician. We all know that it is not just the amount of practice that we do that brings results, but the quality of our practice. When we understand how musical learning works and how we ourselves function best our practice can be efficient, effective and joyful! Learn about Quality Practice with musician and performance science expert Dr. Susan Williams.
Susan Williams / Christopher Collings hosts Quality Practice, a arts show with 16 episodes published.

Mapping Mastery is a self-paced video course designed as a complete learning cycle — from orientation and goal setting to performance and reflection. It brings clarity, structure and energy to your musical growth, suppor

This guided visualisation helps you to develop sensory awareness – a great way to warm up and to reach a state of deep engagement.

Here’s a visualisation exercise to help you connect with yourself – body, mind, and emotion – to help you be in a centred state for practice, performance and for formulating goals.

A very practical mental training tool for preparing your performances is to do a Performance Preparation Visualisation. Positive visualization exercises have the best effects when you do them directly before going to sle

Which strategies can help you to be able to say ‘I am well prepared’? Here is a look at the weeks before a performance and how you can best use them.

How do you know if you are ready to perform something? Performing is a skill that needs to be developed and practiced. Once you know you can play a piece convincingly, you need to practice trust. Performance preparation

In this episode, we dive into the power of mindset and the deep-seated beliefs we hold about ourselves. How do these beliefs shape our practice and performances, our confidence, and the opportunities we allow into our li

In this episode, we dive into the different forms of motivation—intrinsic and extrinsic—and explore how they shape our actions. Why do some things excite us naturally, while others require external rewards? Understanding

Creating healthy habits is an important part for being a musician. Changing habits sometimes seems hard, so we have to be aware of our subconscious mechanisms that hold us back from change.

There is a lot of injury, stress and burnout in the music profession. It’s important to take care of your own health and wellbeing to be a great learner and performer. That means the right amount and quality of sleep, di

Having a variety of tools and strategies of practicing is essential for optimal learning


What do we need to focus on in order to learn and perform music?

Get to know your repertoire, instrument and self, rather than just trying to 'solve’ them

How you are able to control your learning process is a big predictor of success for musicians.

What are the qualities of a good learner and conditions for learning and how do we enhance them?

This episode is an overview the basic structure of Quality Practice and the main themes and criteria for optimal learning for musicians.
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