Understanding the Tamariz False Clues Method by Wilhelm Eberhard

Tamariz' False Clues method helps professional magicians to eliminate contradictions from their acts, guaranteeing they produce the effect they really want on their audiences. This ebook explains the method, helps you avoid common errors and provides an overview of the fundamental theoretical concepts you need to correctly use every aspect of it.

Contents

• Understanding and using Tamariz' False Clues method
  • Is it difficult to use the False Clues method?
• First Part: Preliminaries
  • Nelms' importance of meaning theory
  • Tricks lacking meaning are perceived as a challenge to solve a puzzle
  • Meaning and suspension of disbelief
  • Maskelyne and Devant's Magic Art concept
  • Artistic creation in magic consists in choosing the meaning of your tricks, not in inventing methods
  • Sleights and techniques are not your "talents"
  • Only your own original creations will be the best artistic presentations
  • How to select presentation themes and meanings
  • How to select a trick
  • Base your presentation style on your real self
• Directing and producing a magic show
  • A magician is both actor and director
    • The director's goal
    • Contradictions can ruin the spectators' experience
    • Eliminating contradictions in trick presentation
    • Eliminating contradictions in show programs
    • Abrupt transitions and other contradictions
    • When spectators think they know how the trick is done
  • A magician is both director and producer
• Second Part: The False Clues Method
• Tamariz' method steps
  • Method example and detailed explanation
    • Step 1
    • Step 2
    • Step 3
    • Step 4
    • Step 5
      • How to design an effective false clue
      • Pseudo back clip false clue
      • Misdirection "in reverse"
      • Disproving the false clue
      • Tricking spectators with evident false clues must be presented as a gag
      • Do not overuse false clues
      • False clue as misdirection
    • Step 6
      • Coin vanish
      • Poker trick and color change
    • Step 7
• Summary
• Third Part: Misunderstandings and difficulties
  • The method has a misleading name
  • Other causes of misunderstandings
  • Many magicians still don't understand the method
  • Reading "La Vía Mágica"
  • What the method seems to be
  • Common errors magicians should avoid
    • What the method really is
    • Studying La Vía Mágica
    • Tamariz' language
  • References