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Building endurance for a recital?

Author: kawallace91  Date:   2011-11-12 17:48 I'm having my junior recital in early April, now less than 5 months away! My professor and I haven't decided on repertoire quite yet, but it's a half recital, so I imagine about 30-40 minutes of music(?) I'm splitting it with another person, so we'll likely be alternating pieces, and we'll have an intermission. I've never given solo performances more than probably 8-10 minutes in length, and that is usually enough to get me pretty tired. I think I tend to bite more with my embouchure and not take as good breaths because of nerves and everything, so I'm worried about getting worn out. I know obviously building endurance requires playing more, but I'm wondering what people have found to be the best approaches to it. I'm looking for ideas of what I can do now while I still have quite a bit of time left and also what I should do as the time gets closer. Insight from anyone with experience would be appreciated! I'm really excited (although I know I'll be nervous later!) and want things to go well!

Topics	Author	Date
Building endurance for a recital?	kawallace91	2011-11-12 17:48
Re: Building endurance for a recital?  new	johng	2011-11-12 18:12
Re: Building endurance for a recital?  new	Ken Shaw	2011-11-12 19:36
Re: Building endurance for a recital?  new	Trevor M	2011-11-12 21:31
Re: Building endurance for a recital?  new	sfalexi	2011-11-12 21:52
Re: Building endurance for a recital?  new	EEBaum	2011-11-12 22:55

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