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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-05-14 04:11
So I have a concerto coming up in erm... 3 days.
What are some tips for prepping?
Practice? Don't practice? How much?
Eat _______ (insert) will help?
Dont Eat _______ will help?
Do this... Do that...?
Etc etc
You know what im getting to. Any pointers are great
Post Edited (2007-05-14 07:46)
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Author: musiciandave
Date: 2007-05-14 15:30
Don't eat high fat foods the day of the concert.
Stay relaxed and enjoy the music
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Author: William
Date: 2007-05-14 16:18
Don't practice the day of your performance--just warm up, take deep breaths and have fun.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-05-14 16:53
Drink loads and loads of Coke just before you start playing.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-05-14 17:16
William wrote:
> Don't practice the day of your performance
Actually I disagree.
I think that on the day of your performance by leisurely playing through sections of your solo, you put the passages into the immediate muscle memory one final time.
I am not implying that you should furiously try to cram in one additional practice session, but rather, play/skim through the solo, to put yourself into the correct mindset and to keep it fresh under the fingers...GBK
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2007-05-14 18:16
I play technically challenging passages at half speed with a metronome. This is to work them in to the 'immediate muscle memory' as GBK put it, but without stressing myself if something goes wrong.
I always find last rehearsal usually goes badly...which is a good thing, save the performance for the performance.
Eat sensible portions of whatever...but do eat, being under full or over full are both equally bad.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-05-14 18:20
No-one's going to mention the banana thing?
Eat a banana a while before the concert. Supposedly the metabolization of the potassium has a calming effect...
...I've been told!
James (eating a banana)
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Garret
Date: 2007-05-14 18:50
Diet 7-Up before the performance settles my stomach, and there's no caffeine like Coke to get me wired.
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-05-14 20:28
Eat a banana when? (how long before the concert?)
thx for everything else guys
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Author: D
Date: 2007-05-14 20:38
make sure you have blown your nose (about 15 minutes before in case you set something off) and washed your hands (about 1 minute before). nothing worse than sneezing, or having slimy hands when you are trying to show off.
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Author: Mags1957
Date: 2007-05-14 21:39
I agree with the slow practice - that's what I do before any performance or audition. Practice the piece very slowly and very precisely - especially any passages that have given you trouble.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-05-14 21:40
How about an hour before? I would think that you'd have to have it mostly digested...
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2007-05-14 21:44
-- "Eat a banana when? (how long before the concert?)" --
Best time is just when you're about to start the solo.
Always gets a laugh from the audience. Eases the tension, lightens the atmosphere.
Steve
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-05-14 23:04
As well as downing 6 cans of Coke, eat loads and loads of peanuts, Doritos, a few slices of toast and a bar of chocolate, and finish this lot off within a few minutes of playing.
I remember just before I was playing in Mahler 10 (cor anglais) I bit through my bottom lip in between the rehearsal and the concert while grabbing a bite to eat - and I had a dose of 'flu as well. It felt like I was playing cor with boxing gloves on as I was numb all over with the 'flu.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Olorin
Date: 2007-05-16 04:47
bananas are good every half hour for maybe a couple of hours right before the performance, stopping somewhere under an hour before go-time (max - 4). one of my friends has discovered banana nectar, too, but it's pretty funky stuff.
i definitely agree with the leisurely playing. at the end of it all, there's not much you can do that day of to change anything, so just noodle around, play something soothing (pierne canzonetta and brahms sonati for me), hang out with good friends, do some good stretching, and just enjoy the music. after all, the chance might not come along again for a while, eh?
also, i find having a good distraction always helps : ). though this might not be for you, i usually try to develop an infatuation with something (-one?) maybe a week before a performance. besides, that's basis for inspiration, right? : )
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-05-16 21:29
4.5 hours left... :S
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2007-05-17 02:14
Why don't you try eating this or that now before you have to worry about it, to see how your body responds to it? Schedule to play in front of your critical relatives, eat something beforehand and then see what happens.
Personally I don't bother with bananas but rather use a nutrition bar and a 1/2 glass of water about an hour beforehand. This works very well for me, but perhaps not for others.
Absolutely, I agree with the others...practice the rough spots slowly before your performance. Don't play anything up to speed. Then do something else like make sure you're showered, fingernails are clean, your clothes are pressed and clean, your zipper is up, you know where your shoes are, your clarinet and music are ready to go and set by the door an hour before you have to leave. That way you can really relax and not stress out.
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-05-17 02:46
If you are a "wet" player and usually put more saliva in then needed, definitely warm up first, swab out the clarinet, and get the saliva out. otherwise your going to be "cooking eggs" as my teacher tells me once in a while, when you are supposed to be serving dinner.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-05-17 02:47
listen to recordings and visualize what you want to do.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-05-17 06:38
I survived!
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Author: musiciandave
Date: 2007-05-17 11:43
Don't have carbonated soda a few hours before playing! I know this is late, but that's one to remember.
Cause ya don't want your pitch suddenly changing when you burp ....
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