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Visualizing For Successful Performance

What mental picture do you have in your mind when you are practicing? Are you picturing your favorite drummer? If you have an important concert coming up do you picture what might go wrong? Do you imagine that others may be critical of you? If so, you are very normal. These typical mental pictures can be helpful—or extremely harmful. Role Models When we are young we usually have a hero or favorite drummer. In order to improve, we tend to copy our heroes. We listen to their records, go to their concerts and read all we can about them. This is all positive but only up to a point. Sooner or later we have to break away and develop our own style of playing. However, the mind can be a repetitive mechanism. Years after we have stopped copying and have begun to create our own style, those old “pictures” may […]
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