Introduction

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Our Purpose

Preparing for Success in Music is a Leonardo da Vinci project whose purpose is  to design a Musicians Self- Coaching Toolbox (Toolbox)  for those involved in music teaching in the Vocational Educational and Training  Sector and for individual musicians who feel they would benefit from a structured approach to progressing  their career or their involvement with music.

It represents an enhancement of traditional methods, insofar as it incorporates coaching principles and  techniques in order to produce  better outcomes for both teachers and students.

It will  enables music  administrators and teachers to offer their students a short course which will bring home  to them the message  that in order to pursue a successful career in music it is necessary to have a broad range of both music and non-music skills.The Toolbox will show them how to identify these and how to work on them in a structured manner.


Our Toolbox
The Musicians Self-Coaching Toolbox enables musicians and aspiring musicians to  determine where they are in relation to their required skills and provides them with a range of exercises which will enable them to enhance their strengths and rectify their weaknesses.  It is  designed  to be used as an integral part of a course or on a standalone basis.


Our Process
An integral part of the Toolbox is the supporting theory  which we call Teaching Notes which describes the Toolbox process and includes the following:- 

  • Profiles of the many different ways of being involve with music
  •  The core musical skills that are necessary for a sustainable career.
  •  The additional non-music skills that are important and relevant
  • Basic coaching principles which we have distilled  to enable them to be applied in support of maximising a musician's potential
  • Self-assessment questionnaires to identify issues /areas that need attention 
  •  A framework, which will enable teachers and musician to harness their skills in the most effective manner possible to ensure positive outcomes. 

Our  Website

The purpose of our website is to provide a brief overview of the project introduce our Partners, and to follow the development of the project through the cross border visits and present the outputs from our activities