LEARN MUSIC IN LESS TIME
(without cutting corners or lowering your standards)
MAYBE YOU CAN RELATE?
You practice and practice, but you still find yourself…
Correcting the same mistakes over and over
Marking your music again and again in the same place
Running out of practice time before performance day
Making random new mistakes even when you feel well-prepared
Needing a “warm-up” playthrough to “get the mistakes out” before playing “for real”
EFFICIENT PRACTICE is the key to correcting these issues.
“The problem isn’t you, it’s your process.”
—James Clear, Atomic Habits
Once your practice process is dialed in, you…
SAVE TIME
Perform with FREEDOM and CONFIDENCE instead of worrying about accuracy
MAXIMIZE YOUR INVESTMENT in lessons by making FAST progress
MAXIMIZE YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL as a professional musician
I’m a terrible sight-reader. And I don’t memorize. 😝
Maybe you’re like me. I thought I wasn’t cut out to be a professional musician because I learned music SO slowly. I was about to give up (or “accept my limitations,” as I told myself), but then I found a surprising solution. I started treating myself the same way I treat my attention deficit beginner students— very simple, clear instructions within a simple, clear framework. From there I expanded the framework and developed more advanced tools and techniques that handle the complex realities of life as a professional musician. The result is The Well-Practiced Musician— the first ever comprehensive system for efficient music practice.
Having this framework and these tools has helped me focus and make my work as a musician more rewarding than I thought was possible. Since then it’s been my deepest joy to help other musicians unlock their potential.
Think of a piece of music you can perform at the drop of a hat. How long have you been playing it? Now imagine if you could perform NEW repertoire with the same confidence, security, and expression.
EFFICIENT PRACTICE is the key! 😌
GET THE SOLUTIONS YOU NEED
Chris Prestia is a professional keyboard and bowed-string teacher and player, vocalist, amateur composer, and hang-glider pilot. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees, both of them in organ performance and sacred music, at Marywood University and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, respectively. He's performed as a soloist internationally, including in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Devon County, UK, and has performed in several world premieres with award-winning ensembles.
“Sometimes I look back and wonder how I got through my master’s program. I had great teachers, and yes, I practiced, but my progress was slow. I used the practice techniques I learned from the best of the best, but I could not get my fingers to produce the expressive, confident music I imagined in my mind. Years later I figured it out. I lacked a framework for all those practice techniques. After developing that framework I figured out how to use classical conditioning techniques to train myself out of my ineffective old habits. It worked, and so I started trying it on my students. After seeing incredible transformation in my students I knew I had to make this system widely available, and here we are!”