Become a better musician
​every time you pick up your instrument

⚡️SPARK Practice is based in 🧠 neurobiology, 🚣‍♀️ elite sports, 🎻 20 years of top musical training/teaching, & 🧘‍♀️ mindfulness. By cultivating positivity in excellence & structure with practical tools, each SPARK practice session efficiently adresses 5 pillars of music making. With SPARK Practice, each time you touch your instrument you become a better musician.

Welcome to ⚡️SPARK Practice, your best friend in the practice room. ❤️

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ready to
​put practice into action?

⚡️SPARK Practice is supercharged Deliberate Practice, incorporating DP with Intention and Positive Emotional Signatures to achieve efficient, effective practice for long-lasting results on and off stage.

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Take a step beyond Deliberate Practice with the ⚡️SPARK Practice Intentional Practice Strategy.

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SPARK Practice
​5 PILLARS & FORMULA
Your essential course to understand/implement the 5 Pillars. Through 5-weeks of self study and a personalized 60-minute consultation, dive deeply into how each pillar works and how to craft practice strategies toward musical objectives. Level up your playing by incorporating neurobiology and expertise from elite sports and music. 

NEW! SPARK Practice
STRATEGIES FOR MASTERY
Transform your playing and become autonomous in the practice room for life. Specific strategies for each phase along the progress timeline : from starting a piece to polishing your performance-ready preparation. (bi-weekly live office hours call, master classes, exclusive Facebook group, sample training programs, plug & play practice sessions, and more.) This is your ultimate guide to getting better and your accelerated resource for life-long progress. Get on the waiting list today!

SPRING PRACTICE INTENSIVE
​Imagine what a week of intense practice in a supportive environment could do - using custom goals
​& you-specific strategies.
Applications open for the week-long Spring Practice Intensive to get a rocket-launch leap toward your year-end performance goals with like-minded musicians.

​Ready to up-level your playing?

⚡️SPARK Practice is brilliant! The system has helped both me & my students become more efficient practicers & more secure performers. It can be applied at every ability level & the results are tangible!  
- Gwendolyn Cawdron, Associate Principal Viola, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

SPARK Practice Pillars

SOUND

Your voice - your painter’s palette of characters & moods. Sound production starts with the ideation of sound.

PERFORMANCE

Be your best storyteller with Centering, Positive Emotional Signature, Visualisation, Self Recording, etc

ATTUNED Intonation

Harmony, Intonation & the Harmonic Environment.

RHYTHM 

Your groove, punctuation, pacing, and rhythmic structure (phrases, tempi relations, etc.)

KINETIC Integration

Using our whole body, voice, and mind to fully integrate the music.

SPARK Practice Formula

5 SPARK Practice PILLARS :
SOUND
PERFORMANCE
ATTUNED Intonation
RHYTYM
​KINETIC Integration

SPECIFIC STRATEGIES FROM THE 3 Ms : MUSICAL, MENTAL, & MECHANICAL (technical)

SPARK Practice ​Daily Journal & SPARK Practice Timer

SPARK Practice 🏛 5 Pillars + 🕵️‍♀️ Specific Strategies + 📓 SPARK Journal + ⏳ SPARK Timer  = ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES 🚀!

Live & Virtual Festivals

Planning ahead! ⚡️SPARK Practice School upcoming offerings :

• ⚡️SPARK Practice School Spring Break Intensive Live zoom course (2-7 May 2022)
• ⚡️SPARK Practice School Strategies for Mastery (Dates TBA)
• En Français ! ⚡️SPARK Practice au festival Académie Internationale de Musique de Colombes du 04 au 16 Juillet 2022 https://www.musique-colombes.net/
• 🎻 The Viola Practice Camp 2022 - 1-5 August 2022
• We are also putting together more online course offerings so you can have SPARK Practice access whenever and wherever you need. 🥳

"…SPARK Practice gets results 100% of the time,
​and I love to use it in my own practice and with my students.”

- DAINA STAGGS, VIOLINIST & SUZUKI TEACHER, TEXAS USA