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Posted on March 28, 2025April 14, 2025 by JC Heisler

Don’t Torment Yourself

“Don’t torment yourself with ‘I should’s‘…

Don’t expect your capacity to match someone else’s.

Absolute understanding trumps general understanding.

Be sensitive to your capacity, honor it, work within it.”

– K. Werner

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  • Abandon & Constancy
  • Absolute Present
  • Aim of Education
  • Artist Statement
  • Be Quiet
  • Beguiling Music
  • By the Art Form
  • Don’t Torment Yourself
  • Experience
  • Find Your Own Way
  • For My Studio
  • Freedom is the Beginning
  • Healing Practice
  • Imitation is Not Art
  • Learning a discipline is not a matter of forcing yourself.
  • Lesson 1
  • Listen
  • Made in the Music
  • Melody
  • Mistakes
  • Music is Serious
  • Music is the “Teacher”
  • Music Within the Music
  • Musical Arrivals
  • Musical Arts
  • Non-Harmonic Tones “The Great Dramatists”
  • Perception, Thich Nhat Hahn
  • Practice Honor
  • Practice Noticing Yourself
  • Questions for: “Jazz Educators”
  • Rilke
  • Scraps of information have nothing to do with it…
  • T.S. Elliot
  • The Actual
  • The best procedure will depend on several factors…
  • The Happiest Encounter
  • The Reality of Literacy
  • Tone
  • Traditions
  • What is Tonic?
  • Where is the Artist to go?
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