Preparing for Success: A Practical Guide for Young Musicians

This book is a practical guide for young people around the world who wish to build a career as a professional musician. It is a useful resource that will help build a realistic professional vision, support development, and explicate what it takes to make a successful career. As well as providing lots of information, it offers practical tools and exercises to enable you to relate the information to your own situation, and to help realize your potential.

The book covers three main areas:
* exploring essential aspects of the learning process as a musician such as motivating yourself, setting goals, making the most out of tuition, practising and rehearsing, learning from your experience
* nurturing your creativity and expanding your experience and professional horizons
* mapping out the professional landscape and outlining vital parts of getting a career started.