Office Hours – July 2025
*How to get learn the notes of fast passages
*How to deal with "switches" or pivots where you have to remember which direction to go when playing simi…
Author: Noa Kageyama
Rebecca Shockley: Mapping Music for Faster Learning & Secure Memory
Memorizing music effectively is less about remembering each individual note and marking and more about memorizing chunks of notes. And since we are visual creatures…
Office Hours – June 2025
*Riffing on some ideas around technology, apps, and practicing as Noa remains slightly discombobulated from a couple nights of not much sleep 😵…
Pamela Frank: How to Do Score Study II
“Study the score” is something we’re often told. But what are we supposed to be studying? What should we be looking for? What matters? What…
Office Hours – May 2025
*Thoughts and questions about concepts like constraints and differential learning that were presented in How We Learn to Move, by Rob Gray.
Angela Beeching: Staying Connected to Your Body on Stage
In this workshop, Angela Beeching walks us through a visualization script to help us be more in our bodies and be more confident in owning our space o…