1 – Listen to a song you like a few times.
2 – Start playing it.
3 – Focus on the score.
4 – Play and Sing the 1st phrase.
5 – Star over from the beginning.
6 – Add the next note and/or phrase.
7 – Replay it in your mind.
8 – Start again.
9 – At each try, add spirit, rhythm and swing.
10 – Work on your phrases.
11 – Identify and fix errors.
12 – Fit small parts into the whole.
13 – Embrace a highly targeted error focused process.
14 – Making progress is a case of small failures.
15 – Break the move to its component parts.
16 – All of a sudden, the pieces snap into place.
17 – Operate at the edge of your ability.
18 – Screwing up makes you better.
19 – The mistakes will make you smarter.
20 – The learning process of “Deep Practice” has to expose you to an experience that makes you slow down, make errors and correct them.
21 – Obstacles are desirable in the long haul of your learning process.
22 – Study less and Practice more. Thinking about the sunset doesn’t allow you to actually SEE the sunset.
23 – The memory is not a tape recorder; it’s a living structure.
24 – The more we generate impulses, encountering and overcoming difficulties, the more scaffolding we build, and so, the faster we learn.
25 – Use time more efficiently: Small efforts produce big lasting results.
26 – Capture failure and turn it into skill.
27 – The trick is to choose goals beyond your present abilities.
28 – Stop thinking, start practicing.
29 – Keep practicing.
30 – Rest, focus and start the process again.