Monthly Archives: December 2009
Geoff Colvin On Deliberate Practice
Here’s a short video I found by Geoff Colvin, author of the great book Talent is Overrated. In it he talks about Deliberate Practice:
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So Which Pill Would You Take – The Red One or the Blue One?
In the Wachowski brothers film ‘The Matrix’ there’s a key scene in the first third of the movie where Keanu Reeves character is offered two pills. If he takes the blue pill nothing changes for him and life will carry … Continue reading
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Deliberate Practice Tutorial 2
Here’s another Deliberate Practice inspired tutorial for bass guitarists. This tutorial was designed for one of my students to help him with a technique issue he was having – namely shifting smoothly from the E string to the D string … Continue reading
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Deliberate Practice Tutorial 1
Here’s the 1st in a series of free Deliberate Practice tutorials applied to bass guitar topics so that people can see how Deliberate Practice can be applied. This tutorial is based on two bars of STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH … Continue reading
Deliberate Practice And The Radio
So who listens to the radio anymore? We’ve got MP3 players for when we’re on the move. We’ve got CD players in our cars – mostly with the ability to play MP3 CDs or with an adaptor to plug our … Continue reading
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Deliberate Practice In The Developement Of The Funk Brothers
Stop a passerby in the street and ask them this question: Do You Know Who The Funk Brothers were? And the majority of people you ask won’t know the answer. Yet if you ask them who Elvis was? Or who … Continue reading
Can You Lead A Balanced Life And Still Aspire To Be Great?
You’ve heard how long it takes to be great, right? The figure commonly bandied around is 10,000 Hours.If you break that down you can hit that 10,000 hours mark if you practice 3 hours a day, every day, for 10 … Continue reading
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How To Avoid The Plateau – and How To Continually Improve In Your Playing
“Help me, man, I’m on the plateau!” I’ve seen that phrase – or variations of it – countless times in posts on TalkBass.com over the last year or so. I’ve had emails from some of my subscribers too with the … Continue reading
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What Is Deliberate Practice
If you’ve been reading the How-To-Play-Bass Ezine in the last few weeks you’ll have seen numerous mentions of my upcoming project – a multimedia course called Deliberate Practice. This article will give you an overview of what to expect from … Continue reading
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Try Again
If you’ve visited the Deliberate Practice Blog you’ll notice that it’s changed. The original blog got hacked and had to be nuked. So the posts that have already appeared need to be reinstalled….which I’ll be doing over the course of … Continue reading
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