Comments on: Kenny Werner’s Effortless Mastery & Music Store

By: Richard Diakun

Richard Diakun — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:44:33 +0000

I took about 25 years off from playing, other than just noodling around at home. Getting married, moving all over creation in pursuit of a career, and just about everything else under the sun got in the way. Then, a friend talked me into coming out to one of the many “open mic nights” that are quite big in the area that I am now living, and I got the itch again. It took me 6 months of playing piano/organ/keyboards behind some really excellent and confident guitar players and singers before I got the confidence up to do something “by myself”. Even in a non-pressure environment where everyone gets respect and applause just for having the guts to get up to the mic, I was still scared out of my wits. I got to where I could really cook as long as I was in a support role, but this totally irrational fear would grip me when it was “my turn”.

In one of my wife’s soap opera magazines, one of her favorite actors on “One Life To Live” was listed in a feature about “what are the stars reading?” (or something like that), and he mentioned “Effortless Mastery.” I was intrigued, hunted it down on the internet, liked what I saw, got the local library to buy a copy, read it a couple of times, bought my own copy, practiced the meditations and techniques in the book, and am now suggesting it for my other musician friends. It seems like we all have similar problems. Even though the folks I play with are mostly acoustic rock, folk and bluegrass players, and not jazzers, the thinking and ideas in “Effortless Mastery” are so applicable to every musician. We’re pretty much an older crowd that is long past the “I’m gonna be a rock star and tour the world” trip, and we play because we love music and making music. I can’t thank Kenny enough for his writing. It has already put my head in a better place, and I hope it continues to.

By: Richard Ladouce

Richard Ladouce — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:32:58 +0000

Hello Kenny,

I play tenor and soprano saxophone…and since I bought your book my way of approaching my instrument has changed and more motivated to share my music as something deep inside and sure having more and more fun playing music…looking forward to buy the DVD…Thanks also for Dr Colyer contribution to the Telwebinar…very good insight and most of all fun…

Richard

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By: charly Laz

charly Laz — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:04:20 +0000

dear Friends,
as a professional musician I got to the point of hating myself so bad, and these negative thoughts ruined
my personnal life, that Kenny’s book appeared suddenly like a miracle !
Thank you so much (to Dr Coyler also and everybody involved in this humanist project) to have created this community, I feel better for the first time in years and I took this long road to change and achievement with more serenity than ever.
Talk to you soon.
Charly. ( Nice-France)

By: Mark Williams

Mark Williams — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:31:25 +0000

I have really enjoyed the first webinar. However, I cannot get anything to play anymore. There are no “buttons” and I cannot find a place to “Opt-In” anywhere. When i enter my name and email in the upper right-hand corner I get a mesaage that says that I have already signed in! Ther term “whitelist ” is wholly unfamiliar, as I can find no whitelist on my browser.

Any help would be greatly apreciated as I enjoyed the awsome first webinar.