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 enlarge | Authors: Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 35775
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 225
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0385231261
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.63019
EAN: 9780385231268
ASIN: 0385231261
Publication Date: February 21, 1986
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 Reads like a book report February 7, 2006
23 out of 29 found this review helpful
I've read this book twice now, and while I've gotten useful tips out of it, it really does read like a book report of the Inner Game of Tennis, frequently using phrases like 'Gallwey refers to...' and 'Gallwey says'. So I read the Inner Game of Tennis and found that I could have garnered much the same insights from this book without the added and sometimes confusing editorializing by Mr. Green. (And some of Green's additions just complicate things by giving your 'self 1' additional ammunition that it may not have thought of yet.)
All in all a useful book, but to do it over again, I'd skip it and go straight to the Inner Game of Tennis.
 Musician or Not this book is Invaluable February 2, 2006
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
As a professional musician and a teacher at a university this book has been worth its weight in gold. It will help you address anxiety, help you organize your life, and help you accomplish anything you want regardless of whether that goal is musical or not. By using Barry Green's tools to practice and perfect a musical piece I have eliminated inefficient practice time and have finished huge research projects. After learning these methods, a person cannot help but to transfer it to the rest of their lives. I cannot say enough about how useful it is. The best way I can explain the great value of this book is is to tell you I can't hold on to a copy for very long. I loan it to either a colleague or a student and it is never returned. It's not that they just forget to return it. Usually, they "fall in love" with it just like I have and can't bear to give it back. With any other book I would be sure to request its return, but with this particular one I feel like I am giving a great gift. The Mastery of Music is also a fascinating book. Check out Barry Green's website, too. You won't be disappointed.
My Other Bible September 10, 2004
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this book several years ago and am about to buy another for my son, a performer in a major symphony orchestra. Soon he'll be auditioning for the principal position in his section. Although he has, in his own way, followed a path similar to that which this book preaches (I suspect it's that way with every truly sucessful musician) I want him to read this book, if for no other reason, to refresh and lock in these concepts, the concepts centered on extending beyond one's 'controlling' self.
Personally, I'm not a musician but I do love music (symphony season ticket holder for many years). The book has helped me to absorb more from the music, more on what the composer is trying to convey and less on critical listening from a left brain perspective. But there's more to this book than just the music aspect. This book did much to teach me to loosten up and extend beyond my over-controlling self. It's been a real godsend.
If you're an open minded individual and are willing to listen and change I highly recommend this book.
Vital Read for Aspiring Performers July 10, 2004
45 out of 48 found this review helpful
Former principal bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony, Barry Green has created what has to be one of the most important books on musical psychology ever written. As a young clarinetist myself, I've found this read to help me change from one who frets over my auditions and solos to becoming a confident musician in front of others.Green begins by discussing what makes up a good performance. He invented the formula P = p - i, where P is the level of the performance, p is the potential of the performer, and i is the level of mental interference during the performance. He explains how to decrease the amount of i in order to bring the level of P as close as possible to p. Green then digs further into his ideas by introducing to two "selves". Quoted, "Self 1 is our interference. It contains our concepts about how things should be, our judgments and associations. It is particularly fond of the words 'should' and 'should not' and often sees things in terms of what 'could have been. Self 2 is the vast reservoir of potential within each one of us. It contains our natural talents and abilities, and is a virtually unlimited resource that we can tap and develope. Left to its own devices it performs with gracefulness and ease." Green goes own to give advice and excercises on how to ignore the interference of self 1 during performance and how to let self 2 work uninterupted. Over the next chapters, Green goes into more technical and complicated details, while teaching us the powers of awareness, will, and trust. These three chapters are loaded with useful excercises, and most of them have the least do with music, at least directly. But they all tie in somewhere. Green also writes of 'Letting Go', a chapter all about how to 'become' the music while playing, rather than looking at it from a technical aspect. Later, there's a particularly good chapter on how to, not perform but, listen to music. It explains why sometimes we don't feel moved by the music, and then gives relevant solutions to enjoying the performance. Green chooses to end the book by not recapping all the techniques he have taught, but instead by writting several chapters on realizing how big a gift music is, and how to appreciate it to the fullest extent. Reading this book is a potentially life changing experience. I urge all of you to give it a try...even if you are already a capable performer.
Unexpected benefits of this book!!! December 5, 2002
42 out of 47 found this review helpful
I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend. He thought it would improve my guitar playing. What I noticed almost immediately, within the excercizes is actually a methodolgy for dealing with attention deficit disorder! I have had ADD since before there was a diagnosis for it and the methods in this book are not only helping me with music but are also having a profound affect on other areas of my life. I don't think it was the author's intent to help in this regard, but this "inner game" method has far reaching implications....Thank you!!!...
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