The Bulletproof Musician
Ever wonder why you can practice for hours, sound great in the practice room, and still be frustratingly hit or miss on stage? Join performance psychologist and Juilliard alumnus/faculty Noa Kageyama, and explore research-based “practice hacks” for beating anxiety, practicing more effectively, and playing up to your full abilities when it matters most.
Podcasting since 2018 • 413 episodes
The Bulletproof Musician
Latest Episodes
How to Start a Performance with More Accuracy (Without the Onstage Warm-Up)
One of my teachers often used to say that no matter what you’re playing, when you’re on stage, the beginning of a piece is always the hardest part.Not because the opening is more difficult technically, but because we’ve generally been si...
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Episode 413
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7:55
When You Can’t Get Yourself to Start Practicing, Try This
In some years it feels easier to begin the new year with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Other years, it can be difficult to get going and build up those new habits that we’d love to develop.Whichever kind of year this is shaping up to b...
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Episode 412
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The Central Strategy Expert Musicians Use to Practice Difficult Passages
We all get stuck on problem passages from time to time. And it can be very natural to simply throw more repetitions at it, in hopes that this will eventually unlock something.But in doing so, we end up accumulating more and more incorrec...
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Episode 411
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9:26
How a Small Change in Self-Talk Could Improve Performance Under Pressure
The voice in our head can be an asset at times - but also kind of a jerk at the worst possible moments. And like that one person in the “quiet car” of the train that doesn’t seem to understand the rules, it never seems to be quiet when we need ...
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Episode 410
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8:26
A Learning Method That Outperformed Traditional Practice
A few months ago, when a sportswriter published an article in The New York Times about an unusual and “revolutionary” practice method that NBA star Victor Wembanyama and other elite athletes and teams (like the World Series-winning LA Dodgers) ...
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Episode 409
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