Practice Developing SMART Goals Setting guidelines to help you achieve your goals, no matter what they are, can be intimidating. Even establishing an initial goal can be just as tricky. Creating a plan to help yourself can be like climbing a mountain or even cooking. Your goal? You’re hungry and need to make
Community Blog How I had fun with Tonic’s New Year’s Practice Challenge On January 8th, 2023, Tonic kicked off the New Year by launching a new community feature called “Challenges”. Challenges allow people in the community to work together towards a specific goal. In this case, it was to accumulate 1,000 hours of total practice. When users sign up and practice
Community Blog Tonic Progress Challenge #1 🚀 Have you ever thought about the power of progress? Oftentimes we watch and listen to musicians playing a piece, executed to what seems like perfection, marvelling at the skill at their instrument. But how did they actually get there? For most, if not all, it takes a lot of hard
Community Blog Involving mental practice into your daily practice session Have you ever thought about practicing your music while you were commuting to school or work, or maybe idling in the park or waiting for your boy/girlfriend on the street corner?
Community Blog The difficulty of choosing a path I didn’t choose music. When I was a child, I remember believing that when the time came to figure out what I should do with my life, I would know what to do.
Community Blog My NSO Summer Music Institute experience Through NSOSMI, I developed immensely as both a musician and a person.
Community Blog Music Makes Us Feel Things There is subtle music all this time—mixed with the sound of rain and the pitch-perfect banter—but there is something else. This movie uses frequencies of sound beyond conscious comprehension, frequencies that we can’t exactly hear but we can feel.
Community Blog Realities of musical performance and injuries There is a real danger musicians must consider: 50 to 76 percent of professional musicians have reported sustaining musculoskeletal injuries at some point in their careers.
Community Blog Harmonious vs obsessive passion: on the making and unmaking of our identities The word amateur comes from the Latin word amātor - one who loves, devotes, or admires. It requires passion; it becomes an identity.
Community Blog Listening vs. playing music, what difference do you hear? When you listen to music, it may be from two different angles: are you playing or are you listening, are you performing or are you part of the audience?
Community Blog Living without regrets: Attempting life as an adult musician No matter what age you are, music can be an incredible, invisible force bringing us all together in times of both sorrow and joy.
Community Blog Tonic is an elixir for practicing 🧉 Tonic has changed my perspective on practicing. It is so accessible on my phone: all I need to do is open the app, open a studio, and start practicing.