Quality Practice

Mapping Mastery is a self-paced video course designed as a complete learning cycle — from orientation and goal setting to performance and reflection. It brings clarity, structure and energy to your musical growth, supporting you in becoming your own self-trainer. The content explores ways of practicing and preparing performances, enhancing focus, reflecting on the process, and developing self-awareness as a foundation for confident, sustainable artistic development.

This guided visualisation helps you to develop sensory awareness – a great way to warm up and to reach a state of deep engagement.

Here’s a visualisation exercise to help you connect with yourself – body, mind, and emotion – to help you be in a centred state for practice, performance and for formulating goals.

A very practical mental training tool for preparing your performances is to do a Performance Preparation Visualisation. Positive visualization exercises have the best effects when you do them directly before going to sleep. Try this one for a few nights before an important performance to release fear and stress and to program positive expectations and a convincing performance.

Which strategies can help you to be able to say ‘I am well prepared’? Here is a look at the weeks before a performance and how you can best use them.