TALK: Visualisation, Imagination, Identity

Key Takeaways-

  • You must be convinced of your ability to execute your goals
  • Visualisation has a carryover to muscular ability
  • Have a strong grasp of what you want to be as a player and work towards that. Don’t practice for practice’s sake.
  • Think about what your imagination wants from you and work towards serving that
  • We have the ability to learn from watching, even watching sped up videos
  • Watching your own playing is very beneficial, watch for finesse, fluidity and poise. (This can be recorded or with a mirror)

Heres an article on visualisation and motor control in musicians –

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747442/

Listen to the last question in this interview….

This is the video with the conception story, check out the first 10 minutes…