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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.

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Music technique correction program. This program:

• will greatly improve musical 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: What makes our courses different?

While we cannot offer you a "magic bullet" or a "quick fix" to solve all your music performance problems, we do give you the knowledge and techniques you need to change others and yourself more rapidly.

This knowledge consists of a course of instruction in why self change is hard, why skills, behaviours, techniques and old habits die hard. You will learn an alternative explanation for these problems and a new solution.

You will also learn a new, powerful and user friendly technique for changing your skills, techniques, actions, behaviour and habits quickly and permanently.

The correction process and the way we go about it is completely transparent - nothing is kept back or hidden under the pretext of "professional secrets".

We will pass on to you our professional expertise in how to achieve rapid performance improvement. By the time you finish our course you will know, "how to do it" - you will be empowered to take personal control of the change process.

However, you still have to do the work and put in the time and the effort to achieve the desired change. This is necessary because self change is such a highly personal and individualistic process - no one can do it for you.

Traditional change methods often give you only a slow rate of change and the change may not last very long - plenty of pain and often no gain. When you use our approach successfully your efforts will be rewarded with faster improvement and lasting benefits - much less pain and more gain.You can then help others change themselves, using this knowledge and technique.

We offer three types of courses to suit your learning style and budget - online self-paced courses, on-site consultation and training workshops.

Each course is tailor made to suit your specific requirements.

Each course is strongly applied and highly practical and involves live work with music students and musicians; there is a minimum of "classroom" type learning and what there is can be immediately applied to the "live work" component of the course.

You can combine different courses, e.g., a CD ROM course followed by an on-site consultation.

Music technique correction program for music teachers

Choose from these music performance rapid technique improvement program formats.

Music technique correction: Full music performance rapid technique improvement program including video

CD ROM containing course materials including two ten-minute video demonstrations (AU$59. Currency conversion). Order form. More details.

Music technique correction: Downloaded courses without video

Downloaded file containing course materials including transcripts of the video demonstrations but no video footage (AU$39. Currency conversion). Order form. More details.

Music technique correction: Online courses

Online music performance rapid technique improvement program includes all course material on CD ROM including the videos, plus step-by-step guidance and support in a course that is customised just for you (AU$395. Currency conversion). More information. Order form.

Music technique correction workshops

One-day music teacher development workshop tailor made for music teachers from beginner to advanced.

Music technique correction online course

Suitable for ...

• Individuals wanting to improve their musical performance
• Music teachers and their students
• Performing artists - vocalists, actors, musicians, dancers, models and their teachers
• Anyone with a need for music performance enhancement.

• Self paced, you decide how fast you want to go
• This course equips you to become a competent and confident user of the change methodology, so you can use it to change yourself or help others to improve, or both.
• The course has a theoretical and a practical component and is heavily biased towards the practical side.
• Course communication and feedback is rapid via email. If necessary, we also use conventional communication such as document mailing and mailed audio and/or video footage of a student's performance and the correction sessions
• The individualised, self-paced course draws on your own personal and professional experience and incorporates interesting, relevant and practical projects that immediately apply what you learn.
• The knowledge and techniques you will learn can be applied to a wide range of performance problems in musical performance and can be used with individual students, small groups and whole classes.

Music technique correction course order form

Take advantage of convenient credit card payment via our secure server. You can also phone, fax, or post your order. We accept international bank draft, Australian personal cheque, money order, and major credit cards.

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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.