Author: Jarmo Hyvakko
Date: 2020-06-12 12:05
One thing you should ask is, are you concentrating on what you are doing or are you concentrating on consentrating itself! For me the Tim Gallwey's book "The Inner Game of Golf" was a mind opener. I think what his method is aiming at, is what they call "flow".
What do you remember from a concert, that went badly: all the mistakes. What do you remember from a concert that went well: almost nothing. You have been in flow state.
We should get rid of that pirate's parrot on our shoulder, the combination of your own and your mother's expectations, your old clarinet professor, local critic etc. And be prepared to tell your spouse "actually i don't remember" when she asks "how was the concert".
Our spine has done the job how to play the instrument for so long time, that during playing it doesn't need those nervous advice from our head.
How to do it, is another story. Just opening it up a bit: the next time when you practise a difficult passage, in stead of thinking correcting solutions and blaming yourself on the mistakes, just play it again, and again, and just give yourself points from one to five, how well it went.
Tim Gallwey's original book was about tennis. Because i am a golfer, i prefer the golf book. There is also a book "The Inner Game of Music", that is not written by Gallwey himself. Read that if you are neither golfer nor tennis player. I find that book a bit too deliberate, it explains too much in comparison to put you to try things and finding an "Inner A-haa".
Jarmo Hyvakko, Principal Clarinet, Tampere Philharmonic, Finland
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