Comments on: Effortless Mastery Testimonials

By: Vishnu Chaitanya

Vishnu Chaitanya — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:14:28 +0000

With regards to the Telewebinar Series, and the replays in the email series,
I just listed to the Effortless Mastery Telewebinar #002.

Thank you all , who created this.

Every word of Kenny –worth of solid gold.

All questions — really good ones.

Can’t thank enough .

Vish.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:33:32 +0000

I loved the book and the DVD! I was practicing step 2 and just playing whatever came out. I have no idea what I even played. My husband was in the room and when I stopped he said, “Did you memorize all that?” It really works!

By: Kenny Werner

Kenny Werner — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:26:39 +0000

That’s great Christie. One piece of advice, and it exists in the book as well – when you get those great result, as you have, try to forget them as soon as possible. The more you dwell on how good you’re finally playing, the harder it will be to approach the instrument from the neutral , detached place that is responsible for the great playing. Make it all about the process, not the results.
Good luck, Kenny

P.S. Also, I should mention that you should join my website mailing list. I do telewebinars, which are phone calls that people can listen in on if they’re registered. They’re free and the old ones are available to listen to. They help a lot of people keep the message clear and find the website very helpful.
Best, Kenny

By: Christie Drahnak

Christie Drahnak — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:24:09 +0000

Hi Kenny,
I recently purchased your book “Effortless Mastery”. I have owned the book for about a week now and began implementing the techniques immediately.

I just wanted to thank you so much for writing such an invaluable book! I can hear a drastic improvement already. I have been singing and playing guitar for 10 years now and I just received my first “WOW!” from a listener, which of course encouraged me to share my music with more people and to my great surprise I have kept getting the same exciting response!

I am so happy to feel comfortable sharing music with others now and I am even more excited to continue using your methods. It feels so great to be a part of the universal flow of music. I cannot thank you enough!!!

Thank you!!!
Sincerely,
Christie Drahnak

By: Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:30:59 +0000

Thank you Kenny for your amazing work with Effortless Mastery!
After 6 years of applying your approach and other NLP strategies to practicing, I am a completely new person and musician.

By: Sean Roderick

Sean Roderick — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:37:47 +0000

Kenny,

I first came to Effortless Mastery in the middle of College, about 10 years ago. The music hallway was humming with the sounds of Asian kids playing classical music I felt I would never be able to touch. As a jazz pianist there, this disturbed me a lot and kept me from being able to practice one thing, let alone have the THOUGHT that I can only practice one thing at a time. So this came to me at a crucial moment when I desperately needed simplicity and focus, and joy back in my playing. It completely changed my playing and my life in general. I no longer felt haunted by dead players and surrounded by those still living. 10 years later, I come back to it as a necessary point of departure. And I thank you for wording these ideas so eloquently.

P.S. Please come to Minneapolis again!

By: Mr R

Mr R — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:10:46 +0000

Your work has literally changed my life.
Thank you for that.

By: George Martin

George Martin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:22:17 +0000

This book has truly been a godsend! I have played since age 5 and studied music all my life ( I am now 50). I used to get up at 5 in the morning when I first started playing piano- I loved it, Somewhere along the way I started needing to be great all the time- for all the reasons you so eloquently describe in your book and DVD. This has caused me deep personal anguish over the years and debilitating self- consciousness. I feel like I have been let out of a cage- though when the “moments” happen I want to hang on to them and then they are gone. It is sometimes like trying to catch a butterfly. I feel like your book has put me back on the path of the reason I started- the love of music and specifically the piano. I look forward to finishing the book and rediscovering what I have inside that has wanted to come out for a long time.

Many Thanks for your insights!!

By: milt sorokin

milt sorokin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:25:59 +0000

Hello Kenny,

After long adieu I finally picked up Effortless Mastery. Thank you for defining a practical approach a musician should take to develop their innate skills to a level that I can relate to. Your book is so much about the development of patience and a belief that by developing it ones potential can be actualized at the same time enjoying the process of practice (which most of learned to hate as children). I took up the chromatic harmonica about 11 years ago after being frustrated for not having the time to practice the piano, my first instrument. I now practice without any expectations other than to enjoy the experience with the knowledge that I will continue improving. I have seen you twice with Toots and last summer with your own group at the Vancouver Jazz festival. Keep up the great music and great teaching!

By: Ashisha

Ashisha — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:03:20 +0000

I walked up to my first musical instrument, the marimba, at 59. Instantly I “got”
that I didn’t have a clue, couldn’t hear rhythms, let alone play them… I didn’t even
know the notes of the C scale. YET I was soon compelled to “try” to learn to play
the marimba. It was excruciating, frustrating, mysterious, all of it… with moments of
joy. I wondered why would anyone want to continue to go down a path that felt so
pain filled. THEN a good friend said that there was this book, EFFORTLESS MASTERY…
which I am reading, digesting, reading, feeling… I am soon to be 65… and Kenny put the light on why I have continued with this instrument and will continue from a much kinder place.