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What Elite Sports Teaches us about Audition Preparation

Elite Sports has been on forefront of performance psychology and physiology for a long time now - and as musicians (aka super-precision athletes), we can absolutely relate. Many of the lessons I learned as a rower are directly applicable to the very physically and mentally challenging activity of practicing and performing music at a high level. These are the big differences between elite sports and elite music.

Performance success starts in the practice room.

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