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Summary: A complete theoric and pratical guide to achieve real music
Review: Amazing! This book brings you to a world of reflection and deepness. A daily workshop with techniques to improve your ability to play and listen to music. If you want an example of what this simple book can do, listen to Petrucci's musicality and you'll discover the inner music inside you... Excellent print quality and graphics too!
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Summary: Fantastic! Every musician needs to read this book
Review: As a beginning cellist, I heard about this book working wonders with other musicians, so I purchased it for myself.It has brought out of me more confidence and made my music playing much more enjoyable. Since I am an adult student, I have a lot of insecurities and fears about music ~ this book has ideas and exercises to calm and focus even me. Wonderful!
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Summary: Build your confidence with everything and everyone
Review: As the other reviewers have mentioned, this book will not only help you with your musical performance and how to practice, but also how to deal with other situations in your chosen career (be it music or otherwise) and everyday life. I've read through the book only one time and I'm now planning on reading through it again. I have pages marked and highlighted that pertain particularly to the situation I'm in so I can concentrate on them more. The book states from the outset that there may be certain areas that don't pertain to everyone. That has been the case with me, but it's still interesting to me to read through these areas to see what other musicians might be struggling with or find useful. Who knows. Those areas may become pertinent to me in the future. This book was recommended to me because I struggled with performance anxiety. Since I've read through it, my private teacher has noticed a big difference in my abilities.
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Summary: Will improve your playing and teaching.
Review: Faithfully and imaginatively applies inner game principles to music performance and teaching. Summarizes in ways you can remember while you're playing or practicing. Materials on awareness especially good.
Adult students who are frustrated because their ears are good enough to hear all the flaws in their playing will find this book especially helpful. *Inner Skiing* didn't help my skiing much, but this book has helped me play the sax better and helped me coach my kids with their piano practice. Glenn Spiegel
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Summary: Vital Read for Aspiring Performers
Review: Former principal bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony, Barry Green has created what has to be one of the most important books on musical psychology ever written. As a young clarinetist myself, I've found this read to help me change from one who frets over my auditions and solos to becoming a confident musician in front of others. Green begins by discussing what makes up a good performance. He invented the formula P = p - i, where P is the level of the performance, p is the potential of the performer, and i is the level of mental interference during the performance. He explains how to decrease the amount of i in order to bring the level of P as close as possible to p. Green then digs further into his ideas by introducing to two "selves". Quoted, "Self 1 is our interference. It contains our concepts about how things should be, our judgments and associations. It is particularly fond of the words 'should' and 'should not' and often sees things in terms of what 'could have been. Self 2 is the vast reservoir of potential within each one of us. It contains our natural talents and abilities, and is a virtually unlimited resource that we can tap and develope. Left to its own devices it performs with gracefulness and ease." Green goes own to give advice and excercises on how to ignore the interference of self 1 during performance and how to let self 2 work uninterupted. Over the next chapters, Green goes into more technical and complicated details, while teaching us the powers of awareness, will, and trust. These three chapters are loaded with useful excercises, and most of them have the least do with music, at least directly. But they all tie in somewhere. Green also writes of 'Letting Go', a chapter all about how to 'become' the music while playing, rather than looking at it from a technical aspect. Later, there's a particularly good chapter on how to, not perform but, listen to music. It explains why sometimes we don't feel moved by the music, and then gives relevant solutions to enjoying the performance. Green chooses to end the book by not recapping all the techniques he have taught, but instead by writting several chapters on realizing how big a gift music is, and how to appreciate it to the fullest extent. Reading this book is a potentially life changing experience. I urge all of you to give it a try...even if you are already a capable performer.
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Summary: Unexpected benefits of this book!!!
Review: I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend. He thought it would improve my guitar playing. What I noticed almost immediately, within the excercizes is actually a methodolgy for dealing with attention deficit disorder! I have had ADD since before there was a diagnosis for it and the methods in this book are not only helping me with music but are also having a profound affect on other areas of my life. I don't think it was the author's intent to help in this regard, but this "inner game" method has far reaching implications....Thank you!!!...
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Summary: My Other Bible
Review: I bought this book several years ago and am about to buy another for my son, a performer in a major symphony orchestra. Soon he'll be auditioning for the principal position in his section. Although he has, in his own way, followed a path similar to that which this book preaches (I suspect it's that way with every truly sucessful musician) I want him to read this book, if for no other reason, to refresh and lock in these concepts, the concepts centered on extending beyond one's 'controlling' self.
Personally, I'm not a musician but I do love music (symphony season ticket holder for many years). The book has helped me to absorb more from the music, more on what the composer is trying to convey and less on critical listening from a left brain perspective. But there's more to this book than just the music aspect. This book did much to teach me to loosten up and extend beyond my over-controlling self. It's been a real godsend.
If you're an open minded individual and are willing to listen and change I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: I have not read a more fabulous book about music!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I have been a long time sufferer of audition anxiety, but this book effectively proposes solutions to eliminate the kind of worrying that used to paralyze me. Not only does Barry Green put forth his points in a logical, easy-to-understand format, but he often illustrates his points with anecdotes which help to make his ideas more practical and not so enigmatic and unworkable. Then he offers exercises for the reader which allow the musician to put his ideas into practice. This book will effectively teach you how to use ALL of your abilities to your fullest and will make you see music in a different, yet less mysterious light.
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Summary: Outstanding use of IG concepts for all levels of play.
Review: It is obvious that the author has worked extremely hard to preserve the integrity of Gallwey's concepts, principles and philosophy. Green's style of writing is clear and concise. I found the content easy to absorb, understand and apply immediately. For the beginner to the professional - this is a brilliant guide to better focus.
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Summary: only for open minded people
Review: it works for me, my guitarist and my drummer, but it didnt't work for my vocalist and my keyboardist. If you already have an open mind, this book is for you. But if you don't have it in the first place, this book is just a waste (although the purpose of this book is to open up your mind).
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