High-Five Success Prep Guide, Plananizer® Principles, & Escaping the Excuse Trap (Fantabulous Music Practice!®: Plananizer® Success Manual, Volume One)

The secret to gaining the greatest benefits from music study and achieving the best possible performances--while having the most fun!--is careful, complete and consistent practice room preparation. It feels really good to arrive at music lessons, band and orchestra rehearsals, try-outs, contests and performances confident and ready to show your stuff! And the Fantabulous Music Practice!® Plananizer® Success System shows you how.

Created for young aspiring musicians but useful for instrumental musicians of any age and level, the Fantabulous Music Practice!® multidimensional tri-series system is designed to take music practice to a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness by bringing purpose and productivity to that all-important preparation.

The Plananizer® Success Manual series shows how to thoughtfully plan weekly lesson tasks, set task goals and organize daily practice.

Volume One includes:

- Definition of Excellence

- History

- Getting Started notes to Teachers, Students and Parents

- Practice into Performance Pizzazz: An easy-to-understand explanation of WHY it seems so difficult to start practicing and WHAT to do about it.

- High-Five Success Prep Guide: Learn five easy steps to successful music preparation. This positive outline for beginning, carrying out, and ending each practice session will engage your mind and body and zoom your way to excellence.

- Plananizer Principles: Pleasantly and profitably invest your time and energy. These creative and constructive ideas, bursting with short but power-packed info-bites, will make your practice time productive, full of variety, and fun!

- Escaping the Excuse Trap: Follow this action plan to escape those all-too-common excuses that camouflage as friends but act as enemies by sabotaging your efforts toward excellence.