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Free Ebooks

Here are two ebooks on practicing that I’ve written over the past few years. They are free to download, read, and send to your friends. Enjoy!

Five Deep Breaths and a Pencil Behind the Ear

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.

Five Deep Breaths and a Pencil Behind the Ear (PDF format)


31 Days to Better Practicing

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.

31 Days to Better Practicing (PDF format)