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Most Magicians will advise you the best place to start practicing your magic is in front of a mirror. Which is excellent but I like to take it to the next degree, after you feel fairly relaxed in front of the mirror then get the video camera out and record yourself doing whatever magic trick you are working on perfecting at the time. It also is good to do a little magic show in front of the camera as well. Now the reason that this is effective is it really gives you a viewpoint of your whole act and your patter as well and if you don’t know what a magician’s patter is I will explain.

A magician’s patter is the narrative that they tell while they are doing a magic trick. This can be an important part of your performance of magic for many
reasons and I will cover that in a future article.

Okay back to what I was saying about recording your performance. We usually are our own greatest and worst critic, what I mean is that we will see mistakes in our own routine that others will not see, due to the fact that we know the secret of the trick. We might think that we may have
uncovered the secret of the trick where someone watching you for the first time won’t see. Which brings me to another point about never repeating a trick for the same audience, just like you will notice more mistakes and weak points in your magic performance as you watch yourself recorded, they will be looking more carefully the second or third time through as well and you will get caught. As a magician you really want to safeguard the secrets of illusions, and there are many reasons for that as well which I will talk about another time. I know it sounds like a lot of work to perfect a magic trick but if you don’t want to look foolish then it’s well worth the energy, plus it’s kind of cool to see yourself perform on camera.

Another essential note about practice, is to practice the trick at a snail’s pace especially in the beginning. As they say it’s not practice that makes perfect but perfect practice makes perfect. Then speed up little by little as you build muscle memory, pretty soon you will be performing the magic trick very smoothly. This also keeps you from getting in the habit of hurrying through a trick, because you are anxious that they will discover you making your secret move that makes the trick work. That kind of movement just makes the spectators more skeptical. Most magicians need to slow down a little it makes for a much nicer affect if your audience sees magic happen right before their eyes in slow motion. Good luck in your rehearsal.

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