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We've wanted to make this video for a while, and to my surprise, Jon decided to join me on camera!! Meet my love, my rock: the one and only Jon that I keep mentioning in my videos! :D :D
So the full story is that we saw this game at PAX (video game convention) a few years ago, and Jon immediately said it would be amazing if I played it on my channel. He is a huge music game aficionado, and he is always encouraging me to keep practicing music games even though I'm hilariously bad at them. It confused him the first time he watched me fail miserably at a rhythm game at the arcade, but he never gave up helping me through music games and seeking to understand why I'm failing at them and how reading music through a video game differs from a static piece of paper. It's been five years of him working on me to get me to where I am now in this video. Still hilariously bad, but not as bad as before. XD I hope you guys enjoy watching us be silly together! -Joanna (and Jon ^_^)
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Yes, I am a bit embarrassed to admit that it took me THIS long to figure out how to motivate myself to practice. As it turns out, it has far less to do with patience and discipline than I thought.
You just need to give yourself a bunch of cliffhangers! Livestreaming my practice sessions on Twitch has been such an amazing blessing in my life. I was scared that I would end up practicing only as a show, but quite the opposite has happened. These livestreams are the only time I practice. They're real! That's why I'm discovering so many things about myself that I hadn't noticed before. And now that I'm constantly motivated to practice, I keep discovering more things that I want to improve... And the cycle continues. I've found my drive! If you haven't found your drive yet, I hope you find it soon! Maybe try out my tips as a starting point and take things from there. :) You got this! -Joanna The March and April annual madness... it's so real, and it's not something to brush off as a teacher! I learned that the hard way. If I'm being totally honest, I know I've driven away a few students from pushing makeup lessons too hard, and I have no one to blame but myself for thinking selfishly. I thought that making this video might help some other teachers out there who are struggling with the same thing during these couple of months every year.
For a long time, I felt guilty for feeling so selfish, but there's that Dumbledore quote I always think about: "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Although, I guess this isn't so much about our abilities as much as it's about our feelings. But it's true--your character shows when you make a decision on what to do with feelings of selfishness. Learn from my past mistakes and my current success. The success isn't in getting my students to practice--it's in getting my students to still enjoy music during crazy times. :) -Joanna I had so much fun doing this review because I got to try to predict how each headjoint would sound! It's really interesting to explore other flutes within the same brand and be able to draw comparisons and contrasts among different models and headjoints.
I really enjoy this new "first impressions" way of doing reviews, but I realized as I was filming that it's pretty much impossible for these first impressions to be effective if I didn't do reviews the way I used to (try the flutes privately first, write notes down, and then present my findings on camera). I had to build up a "repertoire" of flutes before being able to predict how other flutes might sound. The prediction part is particularly fun because I really want to be proven wrong! Catching those genuine reactions is the best part about this new way of filming reviews. :) If you guys are enjoying hearing this lovely Powell and want to try it yourself, hit up the Flute Center of New York! :D -Joanna Powell Signature FCNY - JAF Discount - Free shipping - 10 day trial - 18 month warranty - 3 instruments on trial at a time FCNY Music - JAF Discount - 10% off your entire order Like the Flute Center of New York on Facebook! Follow the Flute Center of New York on Twitter! Follow the Flute Center of New York on Instagram! Contact the Flute Center of New York About ClubFCNY **Huge thanks to the Flute Center of New York for sponsoring this video! **Prices listed in this post as of April 2019, subject to change. **Full transparency: I do earn a commission on each instrument and sheet music purchased from FCNY using my code "JAF". :) Thank you for the support! Yeah... it probably took me way too long to figure out how I should have been working with a metronome all this time. It was a problem that I was embarrassed about and avoided fixing for a long time because I had kind of gotten away without it after my teachers and coaches gave up on me. XD I don't blame them! I was hopeless and confusing. Why was it that as soon as I got conducted I could play just fine, but a metronome would make me play so poorly? Yeah.
It makes a lot more sense once you say it out loud. But when would anyone every say it out loud?! Only a crazy person livestreaming every single of her practice sessions on Twitch. I have to verbalize what I'm doing instead of just practicing, so I find myself having to explain exactly what I'm looking at, what I'm thinking, what I'm concentrating on, what I'm struggling with... literally anything that's going on in my mind while I'm practicing, I'm converting it into words so people can follow along with what I'm doing. I accidentally ended up talking about how I'm just looking at the ball going back and forth, and CLICK! I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD! I've got a lot more discoveries to share with you guys, so stay tuned! -Joanna So yeah, I'm sick, and I'm still working?
I promise to keep this short and sweet. :) It felt oddly nice to just talk frankly about how I was feeling instead of putting on a face. It's always a bit of a struggle to convince myself to just be transparent, but it's always the best choice in the end. Alright, I'm outie. See you guys next week! -Joanna There's something really compelling about watching other people reacting to things--I guess you can say it's almost overdone on YouTube, but you know what? I like it.
Lately I've been watching a lot of other YouTubers and observing what about their content I like the most. I just love watching people experiencing new things and the feeling of going on that journey with them vicariously. So I decided to try it in my own reviews. I found that if I wanted to be able to express my thoughts freely, I really can't draw at the same time. It's actually kind of crazy how much set up needs to happen for that to be possible! I settled on doing drawings in post if they're actually needed. If not, I'd rather have a cleaner edit. I didn't feel that drawings were necessary for this review, but we'll see about the next! In any case, I think this would have been such a great contender for me if I was going into music school--though I won't lie, I think it has a lot to do with the rose gold riser. Apparently I'm a rose gold player, not just a gold player. I find I get the most range of tone colours on rose gold, but then again, that might just be me. I've been suspecting that getting a large range of tone colours might be 50% dependent on the player, so it would be fun to do a collaboration review some day. We'll see! For those of you who are interested in purchasing this instrument, I've got all my affiliate links and blurbs below! Enjoy this little beauty! -Joanna Haynes Q3 FCNY - JAF Discount - Free shippings - 10 day trial - 18 month warranty - 3 instruments on trial at a time FCNY Music - JAF Discount - 10% off your entire order Like the Flute Center of New York on Facebook! Follow the Flute Center of New York on Twitter! Follow the Flute Center of New York on Instagram! Contact the Flute Center of New York About ClubFCNY **Huge thanks to the Flute Center of New York for sponsoring this video! **Prices listed in this post as of April 2019, subject to change. **Full transparency: I do earn a commission on each instrument and sheet music purchased from FCNY using my code "JAF". :) Thank you for the support! Who knew one could be so lazy?
Actually, I know. I totally know. Anyway. I think I always shied away from getting my students to practice in front of me because I thought it would be a waste of their money. Turns out, it's the fastest way for me to observe and point out things that I would never have been about to notice before! I was able to give much better advice to my students on ways to practice that would actually work on them. If you're a teacher, and you haven't tried this yet, maybe try this out and let me know what you think? It'd be cool to know what other teachers think. :) -Joanna This was not actually supposed to be editing-heavy.
But, of course, I can't resist some good edits that the footage practically begs for. So I'm now typing this at 3am before the video is supposed to be published. The random "ad" was completely unplanned. Adding in footage from actual practice sessions took for ever to track down (each practice session was at least an hour long). This video wasn't even supposed to end up as funny as it was. There's something magical about making a video that is COMPLETELY unplanned. I'm completely myself, and I'm not trying to make a point. I'm just sharing an experience. I feel like I'm finally starting to get my spark back for editing. I'm really glad I've pushed through. :) -Joanna I didn't know if I wanted to call this video, "My 5-minute slow practicing trick!" because I feel like it's a little too click-baity. I don't make click-bait-worthy videos, lol. It's really just a random private flute teacher rambling about her teaching epiphanies.
I'm still super excited to share this "trick" with you guys. It's not so much a trick as much as a way to set a concrete and realistic time frame for your practice sessions. These days, this type of practicing really isn't all that natural or normal anymore. I've realized now that instead of assuming that students know they should be practicing this way, it's up to me as their teacher to train them to sink into that meditative state of practicing. I don't think it's much different from a martial arts teacher who teaches students to slow down and work on their accuracy. I figured I could do the same! I hope this is helpful and at least interesting to y'all. Love you guys a lot, happy practicing! -Joanna |
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