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Re: Oh golly, I'm nervous.

Author: Stingerbee5000
Date: 2015-11-24 08:21

Thought I might put an update-

To prepare I mostly played for others and tried listening to myself play a lot.
I also lowered my expectations going in which actually helped a lot. It's sort of a play between keeping yourself motivated and frustrated.

It went well enough, the first etude was a little rough but I felt myself relax and perform like I wanted the further I went.

Some things that helped during the performance was not so much suppressing but controlling my anxiety- that is using my anxiety as excitement which helped me focus and took a bit of the edge off.

What really did the trick, and I think Fuzzy is right about this, was lowering my expectations. Having done so, I stopped getting hung up so much and falling down that slippery slope of negative feed back and really enjoyed playing. As I should.

Thank you all, I'll be doing phase II in a couple weeks- wish me luck.

I hope this thread helps someone else in the future.

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