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This page describes Old Way New Way^® music performance improvement courses for music teachers, their students and musicians for improving transfer of learning in music performance.

Old Way New Way Learning^®

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Music technique correction: This program, when properly applied:

• will greatly improve music performance
• will quickly correct bad habits, poor technique and other performance faults
• reduces performance anxiety and its debilitating effects
  greatly improves transfer of learning
• increases performer flexibility and adaptability to change
• is backed by published research, case studies and performance trials
• is readily adopted by music teachers and performance coaches as part of their professional toolkit
• can be learned through videos, self-paced courses and workshops ranging from $39 to $395.

Music technique correction course details

Our Music Performance Improvement course is an advanced music teaching skills course designed for experienced music teachers, students of music and accomplished musicians.

Old Way New Way^® music performance improvement is a teaching and self improvement skill useful to all music teachers, music students and musicians, regardless of instrument, age or ability level.

For music teachers, the Old Way New Way^® method of music performance improvement can enrich your music teaching experience and improve your teaching effectiveness.

Old Way New Way^® teaching is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by published experimental research in refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations involving performance improvement stands unchallenged.

This course will provide you with explanations, demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way to accelerate your student's learning, overcome technique faults and other bad habits, and resolve performance anxiety and other music performance problems.

You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way Learning; discover how it has been used to quickly correct skill development problems; see step-by-step demonstrations of its use with music students; learn to prepare your own skill correction and behaviour change protocols that you can use in many different teaching and live performance situations; and learn how to use Old Way New Way^® to speed up adaptation to things new, and make students and musicians more flexible and adaptable to change.

Music technique correction course contents

• course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
• background reading for the practical assignments, with a self-administered test of understanding of the main concepts, accompanied by model answers
• demonstration of the brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement and makes old habits die hard
• a practical assignment that teaches you the generic steps in Old Way New Way training
• a practical assignment that guides you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way, first to change your own behaviour and skilled performance, and then to change a music student's piano technique, and
• a ten-minute video demonstration (in the CD ROM and online courses) or video transcript (in the downloaded course) that shows you how the piano technique problem was handled
• another practical assignment showing how to improve a violin student's bowing technique, and a ten-minute video demonstration showing how this was done
• a generic Old Way New Way^® protocol template that you can modify to suit many different kinds of technique and performance improvement situations
• stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way^® and conventional music teaching, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and how they differ
• case studies of how Old Way New Way^® can improve music performance
• examples of how Old Way New Way^® has been used in physical therapy, including posture correction
• examples of its use to correct misconceptions and misunderstandings that may sometimes be the root cause of music performance problems
• how to use Old Way New Way^® for skill transition training
• list of published research that underpins this methodology
• implementation support options, including e-consultation, an online course, and on-site consultation

The special introductory price of the CD-ROM is AU$59 (currency conversion).

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For background information on the Old Way New Way^® Workplace Training method, please visit our music technique correction home page.

Why don't they learn?

Trainers, teachers, instructors and sports coaches try to get it right the first time with their students, trainees and athletes but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct errors, misconceptions, non-compliance, technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

Because these errors were not corrected early, and were inadvertently repeated over and over (i.e., practised), many error patterns are actually learned, habitual and automatic and therefore much harder to eradicate.

For example, John always writes "recieve" instead of "receive"; Mike always has to be reminded to wear his safety goggles; Mary always slices her golf swing; Susan always follow cars too closely when driving; and Geoff is mentally still following the previous aircraft’s pre-flight checklist even though he's converted to another aircraft.

We all know that old habits die hard and many habit patterns are resistant to conventional change methods.

These limitations of traditional teaching and training programs are apparent in all settings including sport, workplace training, education, therapy and personal development.

Re-training or re-education, the typical solution to these problems, improves things only slowly, if at all.

Although learners may appear to pay attention during instruction and practice their new, correct, skills and knowledge over and over, the next day when placed under pressure or when unsupervised and left to their own devices, they seem to have forgotten what they’ve learned and the same habit pattern errors (old entrenched attitudes, beliefs, misunderstandings, work practices and routines, faulty procedures, poor techniques and unsafe behaviours) resurface.

A prolonged adjustment period and poor transfer of learning are the two most typical outcomes of education, training and coaching efforts worldwide.

All this wastes talent and resources and makes change and transition programs so much less cost-effective. There’s got to be a better way.

Fortunately, a cognitive science discovery called Old Way New Way Learning offers:

1. A new perspective on the transfer of training problem.

2. A fast and practical method of transition training.

3. A cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid skill and technique correction, and habit eradication.

This page describes Old Way New Way^® music performance improvement courses for music teachers, their students and musicians for improving transfer of learning in music performance.