Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
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Actor: Kenny WernerDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Jamey Aebersold
DVD Reviews of Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
DVD Review: Greatest book I've ever read!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Effortless Mastery" is a transformational book, and it was impossible for me to put it down once I started it.
10 of my most joyful discoveries from Kenny Werner's book:
1. I loved the autobiography, particularly growing up.
2. The mantras that "Music is easy" and "Music is effortless" and especially "Not caring leads to better playing."
3. This is a book for musicians, but really it is so much more. It's for everyone. I've ordered 4 copies of it from Amazon,and will be getting a lot more copies for future gifts.
4. The 5-minute rule I've been applying to my piano playing every day. I find that I'm so busy that I almost never play anymore. Now I'm playing at least 5 minutes a day, and it is pure joy. (Most of the time it turns into more than 5 minutes, but sometimes only 5, but I get up from the piano feeling very happy).
5. Kenny's idea of service and surrender through playing the piano. I really love that!
6. Kenny's affirmation "Every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard." Brilliant.
7. If I had to single out one statement that he wrote that, for me, was the most profound: "...we are all addicts in the sense that we are addicted to our limited vision of ourselves." (Very hard to pick just one).
8. The idea that we are all masters, and to celebrate each other's mastery.
9. The idea of "...retreating into the stillness to guide your technique into effortlessness."
10. Playing without overthinking, or, without thinking at all.
Thank you, Kenny Werner, for writing this brilliant book.
DVD Review: Beautiful and enlightening
Summary: 5 Stars
Excuse me: This review is for the book and CD, I didn't know there was also a DVD.
This is such a beautiful book about creation, about being a musician, about living life gently and fully. The meditations on the included CD are nothing short of life changing. Kenny's beautiful voice is hypnotic, and his meditations are healing, loving. If you are at all struggling with artists's block, or even if not, this is a magical book and CD, that teaches we all have something to say, there are no rules, there is really no critic watching us.
DVD Review: Great companion to Effortless Mastery
Summary: 5 Stars
Been reading the book for sometime now. Just got the DVD and I must say that it's wonderful. Granted the production is not very slick, just a camcorder recording of Werner giving a lecture.
Nonetheless, it's great to see and hear him talking about his concepts. He's very funny and really has the whole room captivated the entire time.
If you're familiar w/the book, this will be more like a reminder of some of the concepts. If you've never read the book, it'll be a great introduction.
DVD Review: A must for any Jazz Musician
Summary: 5 Stars
I was doing some exercises from Effortless Mastery. My wife asked "What are you doing?"
I said "I'm doing exercises from a book that says that if you know how to play the piano and you get your conscious mind out of the way, you can make much better music.
My wife, who had years of classical piano training, always was jealous of people who could improvise. She said, "I can do that." And she sat down at the piano and started to improvise.
So this book changed her life, even before she read it.
DVD Review: ESSENTIAL TRUTHS ABOUT BEING A REALLY SUCCESSFUL MUSICIAN
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is an amazingly effective and goes directly for the points at hand and their cure. Most of the content will seem revolutionary to most viewers, unless they are master musicians and live in that state.
The roots of real music creation are exposed and they are not what most think they are, but they are inside us and everyone has them. How to "get it' that we have them is the crux of the matter.
Kenny Werner goes into the most crucial factors that have to be faced to liberate the musician from what chains him/her to mediocrity and lack of brilliance or lack of confidence and stage fright.
Any artist who puts in practice the contents of this filmed presentation will find himself/ herself surrounded by an appreciative audience sooner or later. He/she will be doing what any great musician does and living as they do before , during and after the performances whether they are professionals or not.
I can guarantee it, being myself blessed with a very successful musical career, I recognized all of Kenny Werner's advice as supremely true, much of it I had to face early on in my career, and fortunately I was able to overcome those ego induced challenges present in all of us artists early on with the help of this fundamentally spiritual approach from the very same source which liberated the author of this DVD. An approach that always works, if one knows exactly what to do, and Kenny Werner does know.
But what about 90% of musicians? Now they have this DVD to help them do what it takes to be free to make one's brand of great music and to perform it with grace , depth, excitement, and beauty and most importantly : To have fun! while doing it. I can tell from my own experience: It does not get any better than that if you are a musician!
From Rachmaninoff to Rap or Jazz the inner state and source is the same.
Having viewed this DVD and having personally experienced and continuing to experience what Kenny Werner talks about in all it's phases from challenges of the ego to an excellent measure of success worldwide after meeting these challenges, I can only highly recommend this DVD .
Description of Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
This DVD features noted pianist/author Kenny Werner speaking before a packed house of musicians and educators about the principles of his popular concept "Effortless Mastery". The book/CD by the same name has had a profound impact on thousands of musicians all around the world, allowing them to reconnect with the joy of playing music at any level. Listen in as he explains and expands upon the material in the popular book. Inspiring and insightful.General DVDs
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