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RE: Way too tense

Author: Omar
Date: 1999-07-15 11:57

Here are two scenarios you might be familiar with. You're practising for a recital or exam, daily. You make progress but it's slow and hard won.
2) You're out of practice and pick up the clarinet for fun. You play better, for that one instance, than you did when you were struggling to learn a piece. This happens to me, and the only thing I can put it down to is a mental freeness. Like Stuart I think - for me - it's to do with remembering why I play anyway. Secondly, yoga stretches sometimes help me - Surya namaste is good for loosening up. Finally, my problems usually start with an apprehension about a difficult passage - this makes my breathing speed up and get short - this affects a whole chain of events that lead back to tension. The way I break the cycle is to calmly and slowly repeat the passage until I get it right. But you probably know all that.

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