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Mintzer on Practice

• improvise as a composer
• think from note to note
• 1 saturation (listening)
• 2 emulation (phrasing)
• 3 technical (methods)
• 4 piano (all areas-scales/bach)
• 5 performance (leading/writing)
• write tunes that show what you do or want to work on
• use motives-rhythms and melodic
• practice improvising on motives
• elaborate on and expand your own ideas
• play free to find ideas
• transform old ideas
• find truth in critiscism
• practice using dynamics
• practice using shadings
• practice using space
• write out a solo
• practice it (if you cant-you dont hear)
• sing it
• solo should sound like a tune
• write an etude
• focus on a device
• practice it
• practice melodies over and over-transform it each repitition
• stretch rhythms (create arc)