Practice Space.
Daily encouragement, inspiration and meditation for musicians and music students.
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Practice Space is a video podcast for musicians and music students, published Monday - Saturday on YouTube.
Each episode offers practical tips, thoughtful insights and guided meditations to help you show up to your instrument with joy, curiosity, and confidence. Overcome procrastination, stay curious, and bring more creativity into your daily music practice.
The videos are designed to lead you right into your daily music practice, the same way you would use a meditation app like Headspace. Take out your instrument, settle in for a few minutes of gentle chat and a guided meditation, and then begin your practice for the day.
You can browse the archives below or subscribe to the podcast on YouTube for daily videos.
Practice Space archives
You can browse recent episodes below, or use the search box to find an episode that matches your current problem, mood or question (try “plateau”, “tension” or “improvising”).
Play the emotion you’re feeling—then try its opposite
Sometimes your emotions feel too big (or too dull!) to practice through. But what if you could use them?
Playing like a robot?
If your practice feels tight, tense, or overly mechanical, this exercise is for you.
How to start improvising
Improvisation as a pianist, guitarist, violinist or singer can feel intimidating if you’ve never tried it before. But the first five minutes of your practice session are the perfect time to experiment — you’ve got nothing to lose.
Feeling flat or uninspired in your music practice?
Have you ever felt that rush of inspiration when you first discover something new? But then, the second time you watch, listen to, or read that same thing, it doesn’t have the same power.
What Aussie slang taught me about practicing music with guts
Are you holding back in your music practice because you're afraid of messing up? In this video, I share one of my favourite pieces of advice from my former double bass teacher, a bit of Aussie slang!