Develop Intentional Music Habits in the Digital Age - Student Page

A page designed for students to reflect on establishing intentional music habits.

Discover how to nurture music habits to adapt to your busy lives! The content of this page is inspired by researchers, James Clear and neurologists. Dive into the 5 action plans to develop healthy music choices!

Let’s Brainstorm some ideas of music habits that may be applicable to you. Write down some ideas of habits you can establish for each of the sections in the Brainstorm Worksheet of Healthy Music Habits. Click here to see some examples.

5 Action Plans to Develop Intentional Music Habits

Explore the below five activities to begin your journey of developing intentional music habits. Click on the image to download the template.

#1 Musical Mindset & Music Identity

Discover your Musical Mindset:

Begin discovering your music identity with these initial prompt questions.

Development of Music Identity

Who inspires you? Which individuals have influenced your music making thus far? Here are a few role model performing artists to begin exploring. Try subscribing or following the artists to see their latest recordings on your social media.

Take a step further!

For those of you on social media, I challenge you to change your profile picture to a picture related to music ( it can be a picture of yourself with the instrument, the instrument itself, your favorite sheet music, your favorite composer, etc.)

For those of you with ipads/phones - I challenge you to change the wallpaper to a picture related to music.

#2 Make it Easy

#3 Make it Happen

#4 Modify the Environment

#5 Make it Attractive

Now that you have created the 5 action plans for building intentional music habits, take action and apply it in your daily life!

Notice the ripple effect of how quickly these small steps become habits. Allow these steps to transform practicing into an intentional habit, developing lifelong independent musicians in the digital age!