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The Inner Game of Music Paperback – 6 Jun. 2003

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The battle that many musicians, of whatever level, have to face is an inner one - against nervousness, self-doubt and fear of failure. In this highly successful book, first published by Pan in 1987, musician Barry Green explains the basic principles of 'natural learning' that make up the Inner Game methodology, and shows how to apply them to reach a new level in the learning and performing of music.

With special features on ensemble playing, improvisation and listening skills, and with exercises that help intonation, artistic phrasing and technique, The Inner Game of Music is invaluable to performers, students, teachers and anyone with an interest in music.

Print length

256 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Pan
Publication date

6 Jun. 2003
Reading age

18 years and up
Dimensions

13 x 1.63 x 19.71 cm
ISBN-10

0330300172
ISBN-13

978-0330300179
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Book Description

Overcome obstacles, improve concentration and reduce nervousness to reach a new level of musical performance with this bestselling guide.

About the Author

Ever since Timothy Gallwey missed a heartbreakingly easy volley on match point in the National Junior Tennis Championship at the age of fifteen, he has been fascinated with the problem of how human beings interfere with their own ability to achieve and learn. His search for practical ways to overcome the mental obstacles that prevent maximum performance led to the basic discoveries first described in this, his bestselling classic. Since the completion of The Inner Game of Golf, he spends most of his time in the Los Angeles office of the Inner Games Corporation, developing an Inner Game approach to such diverse fields as selling, management, stress, diet, music and the quality of work. He is also the author of The Inner Game of Tennis, and the co-author of The Inner Game of Music.

Barry Green, a native Californian, served as Principal Bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for twenty-eight years. As former Executive Director of the International Society of Bassists, he is currently directing a young bassist programme for the San Francisco Symphony Education Department, teaches privately at Stanley Intermediate in Lafayette and at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has organised the Northern California Bass Club.
Principal Bassist with the California Symphony and the Sun Valley Idaho Summer Symphony and active as a bass soloist and teacher, Green has been performing for young audiences in schools in the Bay Area as well as bass workshops and in concerts on tour. He has studied with the legendary bassist Francois Rabbath and wrote The Popular Bass method in three volumes in collaboration with the Bay Area jazz bassist Jeff Neighbor.
The Inner Game of Music has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. Barry Green has also written seven Inner Game of Music Workbooks published by GIA Music for keyboard, voice, instrument and ensembles. His seminars, workshops and personal appearances sometimes include a unique lecture/concert called 'Journey into the Mind and Soul of the Musician' that demonstrates concepts in his The Inner Game of Music and The Mastery of Music, also published by Macmillan.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Reprints edition (6 Jun. 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0330300172
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0330300179
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 1.63 x 19.71 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 738,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 330 in Music Appreciation
- 5,061 in Music Instruction & Study
- 5,452 in Music Education & Teaching

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W. Timothy Gallwey has produced a series of bestselling Inner Game books, which set forth a new methodology for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields. For the last twenty years Gallwey has been introducing the Inner Game approach to corporations looking for better ways to manage change. He lives in Malibu, California.
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Apple Girl UK

Essential reading for performing musicians

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2022

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If you are a performing musician that wants to perform well you need to read this book. Process your fears and anxieties. Improve you practice times and your performance.

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Christina A. Veasey

Great little volume is now getting a little 'old hat'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2021

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Do read it as it is so useful for musicians and performance conditioning. Best if followed by the 'mastery' version for further updates. Great little books and recycled - thank you 'WeBuyBooks'

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J. McNeill

What we think about while playing music

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2013

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I have found this book very helpful and insightful. I learned the french horn when I was young and experienced the performance anxiety familiar to most musicians. Having taken up guitar thirty years later nothing much has changed on that front, except that this book really helps. This is not just for recitalists or students, but for anyone who plays music in front of others. Whilst I agree that the salient points could have been captured in a shorter book, I rather like it the way it is.

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Joanna X.

A Must Read for any music performer, student or teacher!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 June 2014

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For anyone who was interested in understanding what goes on in our head when we perform for other people, this book provides an invaluable insight to the psychology behind our thoughts, doubts and wandering mind when under the pressure of performing in public, regardless of how many or few. The book arrived quickly and safely, well protected and shrink wrapped, brand new. I gave the book as a gift for a piano student of mine who stresses out over the recitals. He has since bravely agreed to take his national exams! This book can transform your thinking and your approach towards sharing your joy of performing music for others.

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tengotango

Curing the shakes and keeping the light on

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2010

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This book was recommended to me by my teacher and its working. I am learning to play a bandoneon, therefore I must be mad, but I am very shy too so I find public performance nerve racking. If like me you find that whenever you trip up or miss a note the lights of the world to go out and your brain freezes then this book shows you that it does not have to be that way. Really. Yes.

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Chris H

Content is okay, but oh boy, what a mess Kindle has made of it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2016

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More than one friend of mine recommended reading this book as a way to get past my "inner critic" - the voice that interrupts performance and throws you out of the moment - and combat "impostor syndrome." There's some helpful information here, and the suggested responses to performance anxiety can help, but I was irritated by the author perpetuating a number of fallacies (particularly the howler "we only use 10% of our brains") in explaining the basis of his approach. Motivation, attention and focus are covered in a largely superficial fashion. But the book suffers most from a truly abysmal conversion to Kindle format. It is literally riddled with typos, frequently several to a page. It's the most error-riddled eBook in my collection.

If you want a meatier, deeper, and, I'd argue, more satisfying examination of competence and mastery you'd be better served reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book on "flow" which covers much of the same ground.

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Jon Boy

The psychology of what holds us back as individuals

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2014

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This is a great book. Although this particular version is aimed at musicians who struggle when performing live or for others the principles apply to all walks of life.

the book describes some of the science of how our brain works to send messages to our subconscious which make us hesitate, question ourselves and make us shy away from giving our best.

You may want o look at similar titles rather than go for this specific version if you're not someone who performs in front of others (or who wants to do so)

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Bridie Gill

This is an amazing book. It is not only a great tool ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2017

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This is an amazing book. It is not only a great tool to improve your musical performance and practice but can be used in life. Arrived within a couple of weeks and is second hand but that is exactly what I expected

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