Music practice can be lots of fun—if you know what to practice and how to practice it! It feels so good when you can see your own progress, enjoy accomplishing your goals, and share the beautiful music that you make. And it feels really good to arrive at music lessons, band and orchestra rehearsals, try-outs, contests, and performances confident and ready to shop your stuff!

The ULTIMATE SECRET to gaining the greatest benefits from lessons and rehearsals, making the most progress in your instrumental playing, accomplishing your music goals, and achieving the highest marks at contests and the best possible performances (without being overcome by nerves!)—and having the most fun playing your music!—is careful, complete, and consistent PREPARATION.

Careful, complete, and consistent preparation enables you to perform at your best with confidence and pizzazz. First, you must leave each lesson, sectional, or rehearsal with a precise plan of action. You must know exactly:  a) what new concepts you learned, what skills you reviewed, and what music you covered;  b) what and how, and how much you are to practice; and  c) what your goals for the next lesson, rehearsal, contest, or performance are.

In a nutshell, you must know what and how to prepare. Then secondly, you must arrive at all lessons, sectionals, rehearsals, contests and performances well-prepared; and, in order to arrive well-prepared, you must prepare…beforehand! To crack the nut, you must plan, organize, and execute your personal private music practice in such an efficient and effective manner that you are fully prepared! 

Fantabulous Music Practice!®

—music practice that is intelligently and systematically planned, organized, and executed—is key to becoming better today than your were yesterday ...and better tomorrow than you are today!!!

Fantabulous Music Practice!^®

Plananizer^® Success Manual: Volume One

Volume One includes:

Bonus Intro: 

Includes the FMP!™ Definition of Excellence, History, and Getting Started notes to Teachers, Students and Parents.

Bonus Section: Practice into Performance Pizzazz

An easy-to-understand explanation of WHY it seems so difficult to crack open the case and start practicing and WHAT to do about it....starting right now! This section gives you an eagle's eye view of the FMP! Plananizer Success System and explains how FMP! addresses, works through and overcomes practice avoidance issues all within a flexible, fun-filled format. 

1-High-Five Success Prep Guide

A five-step guide to successful music preparation. Your High-Five Success Prep Guide gives you a positive outline for beginning, carrying out, and ending each practice session in a way that engages your mind, emotions, and energy. No more thoughtless run-throughs or mindless motion! Follow these five easy steps and you will be zooming your way to excellence.

 

2-Plananizer® Principles 

Your Plananizer Principles shine a guiding light to show you how to pleasantly and profitably invest your time and efforts while in the practice room. This section is bursting with short but power-packed info-bites of creative and constructive ideas to make your practice time fun, full of variety, and productive. The five encompassing categories are--

1) Plananizer Principles for a Personal Space:
Create an Energetic Environment

2) Plananizer Principles for a Personal Program:
Establish a Dynamic Routine,

3) Plananizer Principles for Personal Achievement:
Commit to Active Excellence,

4) Plananizer Principles for Personal Growth:
Grow Your Musical Garden, and

5) Plananizer Principles for Personal Fulfillment:
"Bee" Your Beautiful Attitudes.

3-Escaping the Excuse Trap 

An action plan to escape those all-too common excuses that camouflage as friends but steal away your music dreams by sabotaging your weaknesses and torpedoing your efforts toward excellence. Escaping the Excuse Trap will show you how to:

1) Expose Common Excuses

2) Decipher True Meanings

3) Face Musical Challenges

4) Conquer with Productive Solutions, and

5) Move on to Excellence!

Bonus: Sneak Preview of the 

Plananizer® Pilot: Personal Success Journal

(excerpted from FMP! Plananizer^® Success Manual Volume 2)

Bonus: Sneak Preview of the 

Fantabulator™: Personal Practice Evaluator

(excerpted from FMP! Plananizer^® Practice Companion

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Yes, music practice—intelligently and systematically planned, organized, and executed with your FMP! Plananizer Success Manual—enables you to gain the greatest possible benefits from your lessons, sectionals, and ensemble rehearsals. Fantabulous Music Practice! propels you forward and gives you the confidence to master those nerves and perform at your best. Fantabulous Music Practice! jumps starts you out of the inertia of excuse-making and accelerates you toward the realm of excellence. And... Fantabulous Music Practice! is fun. What's more, Fantabulous Music Practice! works for players of all genres of music:

Classical

Folk

Jazz

Rock

etc.

and all types of instruments:

Piccolo

Flute

Oboe

Clarinet

Trumpet

French Horn

Trombone

Euphonium

Tuba

Violin

Viola

Cello

String bass

Guitar

Drums and other percussion

Piano

Organ

Bagpipes

Accordian

Kazoo

...and many more!

So, what are you waiting for?

Fantabulous Music Practice!^®

^{Plananizer® Success System: Volume One} 

for All Instruments!