Happy New Year! The new year is a cue for change and new beginnings. A lot of people set resolutions and I will be one of those people this year. I have been reading and thinking a lot about music lately, particularly the mind/instrument relationship, and one of the conclusions I’ve reached is that your mind is your instrument. And while we practice to gain technique on our instrument(s), we become better musicians by training our minds.
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