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Foley Music and Arts Newsletter: The Quarantine Edition /May 24, 2020 by Chris Foley

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Over a week in early February 2019, I asked my students to come up with three successful practice tips and three not-so-successful ones. Here’s the result: a handy manual of ways that you can deepen your practice session - and things to avoid as wel… — Over a week in early February 2019, I asked my students to come up with three successful practice tips and three not-so-successful ones. Here’s the result: a handy manual of ways that you can deepen your practice session - and things to avoid as well.

In October of 2007 I wrote a month-long series of articles about practicing. Four years later, I collected and refined these articles into an ebook about how to deepen your practice process.