Teaching tools for instrumental music teachers, musicians, vocalists and students
Rapidly correct persistent errors in understanding, performance, instrumental technique and habit patterns

Habit patterns

Instrumental music teachers, musicians and students try to get it right the first time but invariably end up spending a time trying to correct errors, misconceptions, technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

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

For example, John always has the wrong posture at the piano and Mary's bowing technique has still not improved despite repeated correction.

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

These limitations of traditional teaching, coaching and training programs are apparent in all settings including music, 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.

Students and performers appear to pay attention during instruction and actually improve. They practice their new, correct, skills and knowledge over and over but the next day, when placed under performance 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, e.g., old entrenched attitudes, misunderstandings and poor techniques, resurface.

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

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

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

• A new perspective on the transfer of learning problem.

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

• A fast and practical method of transition and conversion training.

This page describes our music technique improvement program.

Training options

Training in Old Way New Way^® Learning is available in an online course, either with or without email support, or in a training workshop for small groups.

Online course

Online courses are designed by professional educators and follow modern instructional design principles. The Flash based courses can be downloaded and are self-paced, interactive and self contained. Step by step instructions, examples and case studies teach you all about Old Way New Way^® Learning and how to apply it to a wide range of human performance problems in your field of interest. Most courses include at least one video segment that shows Old Way New Way being used; some courses contain four video segments. Online courses that come with with email support cost more but are tailor made and provide step by step solutions for your own selection of specific performance problems.

Workshop

The one-day training workshop provides face-to-face instruction and follow up support for small groups of practitioners, e.g., teachers, instrumental musicians, vocalists, and so on.

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music technique correction program

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.

music technique correction program 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 program 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
practical assignments that teach you the generic steps in Old Way New Way training
practical assignments that guide 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 and video transcript 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
The Teacher's Checklist, 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 music 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.

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Teaching tools for instrumental music teachers, musicians, vocalists and students Rapidly correct persistent errors in understanding, performance, instrumental technique and habit patterns