Music playing involves a set of high cognitive demand tasks that include complex coordination of auditory, gross motor, somatosensory, and visual activities. It takes years to develop such coordination in music students for them to be able to perform advanced instrumental music repertoire with fine artistry and technique. Traditional music education system focuses on teaching basic cognitive control, auditory engagement, decoding music notation using visual tracking of the score, hands and upper body motor coordination in music students of various levels of performance mastery. The nature of music playing reflects a multisensory process that engages the whole body of the music performer. Simultaneous activation of multiple senses is in integrative process that is inseparable from the act of music playing.While the main focus of music instruction remains mostly on the auditory component of music, less attention is invested into the clearly articulated metacognitive and psychophysiological aspects that significantly impact the quality of music students’ performance.Music teachers shifting music students’ attention to multisensory engagement and metacognition strategies applied in instructing instrumental music performers, can improve students’ confidence, practicing efficiency, and overall control. Such strategies combine metacognition with multisensory awareness and sensory feedback. Introducing students to these strategies from early stages of music playing is practical for the beginner musicians through advanced and professional levels.