Work one-on-one with Gregg Goodhart
to break through.
Practice Coaching is one of the fastest, most complete ways to improve your skill level.
Overcome any trouble spots in your technique and fix how you practice them.
And it doesn't stop with your one-on-one sessions.
As a coaching client, you also get two months free* of the monthly Practiclass, where you'll watch these same skills worked out live with other musicians and get your own questions answered.
*For new Practiclass subscribers.
See more improvement in one session than you've ever made before. Guaranteed, or a full refund, no questions asked.
Why how you practice matters
You're already getting good instruction/information. So why do some players perform well under pressure while others, working just as hard, still struggle?
The answer is in how you practice. The few who learn to practice the right way are the ones we call talented and gifted, but anyone can do it. The cognitive science is clear on this. When you've played something with ease many times in practice, the performance itself becomes easy. Stage fright fades. Expression and enjoyment expand as the technical difficulties resolve.
ABOUT GREGG
I'm Gregg Goodhart. I taught instrumental music for two decades, including thirteen years at a high school plus university, junior college, and private instruction. Fifteen years ago, I came across the research on how the brain actually builds skill in the cognitive and neuroscience literature. It made sense of everything I'd learned up to that point and pointed me toward an understanding nobody else was teaching.
I'm the only music teacher I know of who also works as a learning expert for academic teacher professional development across math, science, history, language, sports, and music.
How the coaching works
Practice Coaching runs weekly between your regular lessons, for four or eight weeks. The work supports your teacher's direction, or your own if you're self-directed. We figure out how to execute the practice, so every minute of the week builds skill.
It isn't open-ended. Four to eight sessions are enough for lasting change. The methods evolve in your hands over time as your playing evolves. Sessions are one hour each.
Again, Practice Coaching is in full support of what one’s teacher is teaching. While each student has full control over what we work with, my first question each week is, ‘What did your teacher want you to learn this week?’
More improvement in one session than you've ever made before. Guaranteed, or a full refund, no questions asked.
Performance Level Development
Performance Development
At any level of development, performance is usually a problem. We are really nervous, and don't enjoy it.
Most of us treat performance as something to get through, hoping the next time will somehow go better. It doesn't, because more of the same practice produces more of the same results. We know that just before we walk onstage. Fearing a poor performance is rational when poor performances are what we keep getting.
The solution is changing how you practice.
When we are able to retrieve all of the information we've stored in long term memory during every moment of our practice without fail, there's little left to worry about onstage. The hands and voice respond. The nerves dissipate. What's left is the music.
The answers are in cognitive science. They're effective enough that you'll feel the difference in one session.
Guaranteed.
Recital / Competition Development
As motivated and interested students of music, we want to prepare the best performance possible.
Motivated students want to prepare the best performance possible. Yet most of us are still struggling with sections of our piece on the day of the event, hoping for a breakthrough that almost never comes.
Learning to perform works differently than most people assume. The few who figure it out and apply it regularly seem gifted. But the techniques are in cognitive science, and anyone can learn them.
Most teachers don't teach this because schools of education and music don't teach cognitive science in any meaningful way.
With these methods, you can exceed your best expectations for recitals and competitions, and actually enjoy the performances themselves.
The results are guaranteed.
Virtuosity Development
Perhaps you are one of the few who have been able to figure out how to practice well.
Some of you have already figured out how to practice well. You've used contextual interference and retrieval practice without knowing the formal names for them. And yet, the final level of virtuosity still eludes you.
What's missing is usually a deeper layer. Things like neurobiological latency, the retrieval component of memorization, metacognition, problem solving with deliberate practice, and much more.
Ever notice a speed barrier near that level on certain passages? That isn't a coincidence. There are strategies for it.
This is the work that takes you from advanced to virtuoso.
The results are guaranteed.
Adult Learners, Self-Taught Players, and Pop Musicians
Maybe you came to music as an adult, or came back to it after years away. Maybe you've never had a formal teacher, or you play rock, pop, jazz, anything outside the classical track.
None of that changes how skill is built.
The cognitive science behind practice is the same whether you're playing Chopin or working out a Taylor Swift song by ear. How the brain stores and retrieves information doesn't care about your genre, your age, or whether you read notation.
If you're self-directed, the coaching gives you the structure most players only get from a teacher. We start from what you want to play and build the practice around it, so your limited time turns into real skill instead of repetition.
Adult learners often assume the window has closed. It hasn't. The plateau you're feeling isn't about talent or starting late. It's about method, and method can be learned at any age.
You'll feel the difference in one session.
Guaranteed.
More improvement in one session than you've ever made before. GUARANTEED, or a full refund, no questions asked.
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