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Re: Performance nerves...

Author: MikeC855
Date: 2015-07-06 21:38

An inadvertent but simple cure to my stage fright occurred while I was still in school. I was obligated to a situation to perform for a small audience on an instrument (pipe organ) I knew going in that I was nowhere close to performance caliber. I pushed through it, fully aware I was terrible.

Probably not the best "remedy", but after that my on-stage confidence with instruments I could actually play improved greatly - I had already had "the worst thing" happen.

So the biggest stage fear these days amounts to "is my reed going to crap-out right before the big solo"? For that matter I once had a reed split right in the middle of "the" solo, but fortunately it was in the dress rehearsal and the cost to me was just a dirty look from the conductor.

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Confounding band directors since 1964.

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