Tools
Tools I’m building for musicians
Most of what I teach lives in habits and decisions — what to practice today, how to rotate excerpts, when to push and when to back off. The tools here are attempts to take that practice-strategy work out of my head and into something musicians can use on their own.
Free on the App Store and the web
Play Fast Notes
A practice-strategy app for organizing repertoire and drilling passages. Snap a photo of a tough section, choose how you want to attack it, and the app paces the work — across a single session or a multi-week audition prep. Web, iPhone and iPad.
Built from the practice system I made for myself. Free to start, with a Practice Pro upgrade for the full set of tools.
Digital course
Audition Lab — Music 360
Six modules and more than thirty video lessons built on the argument at the center of my book Behind the Screen: more hours in the practice room doesn’t equal results. It runs from building your lists and your plan, through rotation systems, mock auditions and randomized rounds, to the day itself.
More tools may show up here over time. If you have an idea for something a practice app should do that nothing on the market does well, tell me about it.