Not Pulling Strings. Application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Teaching and Learning Music

This book explores the aplication of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to teaching and learning music. It is thus arguably the first and only book to apply the accelerated teaching and learning techniques of NLP to making music.

CONTENIDO:

Prelude

One
Teaching and learning
Sense experience
Internal senses
Preferred internal senses
Accesing cues
Breathing changes
Lead system
Rapport
Verbal pacing
NLP and communication

Two
Language and teaching
The map is not the territory
Deletions, distorsions and generalizations of language
Presuppositions
Causal modelling
Mind reading

Three
The two sides of the brain
Musical skills
Memory
Short-term memory
Seven plus or minus two
Sequence
Mnemonics
Eidetic memory
Reminiscence and review
Long-term memory
Forgetting
Education and the right brain
Learning and performance

Four
Initial learning
Strategies
Learning to read music
Looking at the fingerboard
Aural memory
Aural tests

Five
Practice
Habits

Six
The Alexander technique
Posture
Tension and effort
Verbal instructions
Changing technical habits

Seven
Mental rehearsal
Submodalities
Mental rehearsal for improvement
Mental rehearsal for memorization

Eight
Permission to be wrong
Socrates and guesswork
Witting and unwitting answers
Experimentation
Trying
Overteaching
Hit and miss
Musical homeopathy
Negative practice
Diversion
Kinaesthetic diversions
Visual diversions
Auditory diversions

Nine
Musical standards
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Ideal standards
Testing
Grade examinations
Comparison and competition

Ten
Social attitudes
Individual attitudes
Responsibility
The teacher as a magician
Enforced practice
Motivation
The homeopathic music workshop

Bibliography