Beautiful tips thanks. People should write these down and take them away with them, you saved them reading 10 books about this topic 😂 ❤ My teacher gave me: - Make you important performance the 3rd of three - a few weeks before, start practising something else difficult, that you don’t have to perform (makes your program feel a little easier) - practise your program in different tempos, musical styles and moods, blind folded, in different clothes etc…
Oh! I think she used to teach at the University of Arizona! That’s where I went for my undergrad! Anyway-love these ideas haha LOVE that you speak Italian too❤
Thanks for this! If I could play this video in reverse, that is what I teach my students: first and foremost, PRACTICE RECOVERY. If you stop at home, you'll stop on stage. Being able to cover a mistake is a skill in and of itself. When you perform, the only hard thing that you should be doing is performing. You should not be trying to perform AND trying to develop the new skill of mistake recovery and improv. Second, know that the harp is a magical instrument, and that is all that 99% of your audience will see: magic. Unless you are doing exams, no one in your audience will know how to play a harp much less how to play any instrument, and they will think whatever you're doing is great...unless you stop. The two videos that you reference are excellent; consider adding those links in the description.
Great video! I’ve taken to eating a banana and drinking some nice chamomile tea with honey before a performance. I’ve tried ashwaganda gummies and magnesium glycinate supplements also. Just don’t do all those together. I felt a little too relaxed one evening! Also the breathing and essential oils, I like them with a citrus or peppermint aroma to really calm me down. Now I use a squishy squeezy thing to keep my hands busy in the pit while waiting for the big Nutcracker cadenza for example. Trying to remember the audience is not there to judge us, but to hear our beautiful harps and we can give them the gift of a happy memory.
Yelling. Who yells matters, bur somebody has to yell! Band members can yell at you. Teachers can yell at you. Passersby can yell at you. Best, I think, is for the performer to yell. "AHHHH!!!!! $+%*&#@%" Or, as you suggest, "Next!" Yelling. A musician's best friend.
Try recording yourself. For me at least it creates a similar sort of hyper consciousness you get during performance. Any places you mess up on you know need more work to be played smoothly under pressure.
A little story about playing on the street... So Joshua Bell* decided one day to play in public in Bloomington, Indiana, near the IU music school. Joshua Freekin' Bell. Where he grew up. Where he learned his craft. Where everybody knows musicians. Nobody stopped to listen. Nobody. To Joshua Bell. So if you want some time in front of an uncritical audience, by all means, play on the street. *OK, Bell isn't a harpist, but c'mon, Joshua Bell. You know who he is. You don't know who Joshua Bell is? You poor, sheltered nugget.
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Beautiful tips thanks. People should write these down and take them away with them, you saved them reading 10 books about this topic 😂 ❤
My teacher gave me:
- Make you important performance the 3rd of three
- a few weeks before, start practising something else difficult, that you don’t have to perform (makes your program feel a little easier)
- practise your program in different tempos, musical styles and moods, blind folded, in different clothes etc…
Oh! I think she used to teach at the University of Arizona! That’s where I went for my undergrad! Anyway-love these ideas haha LOVE that you speak Italian too❤
Thanks for this! If I could play this video in reverse, that is what I teach my students: first and foremost, PRACTICE RECOVERY. If you stop at home, you'll stop on stage. Being able to cover a mistake is a skill in and of itself. When you perform, the only hard thing that you should be doing is performing. You should not be trying to perform AND trying to develop the new skill of mistake recovery and improv. Second, know that the harp is a magical instrument, and that is all that 99% of your audience will see: magic. Unless you are doing exams, no one in your audience will know how to play a harp much less how to play any instrument, and they will think whatever you're doing is great...unless you stop. The two videos that you reference are excellent; consider adding those links in the description.
Awesome tips yes!
This is so good! I really want more confidence in playing in front of others. You are so right to encourage relaxation techniques.
The more you do it, the more you get better!
Great video! I’ve taken to eating a banana and drinking some nice chamomile tea with honey before a performance. I’ve tried ashwaganda gummies and magnesium glycinate supplements also. Just don’t do all those together. I felt a little too relaxed one evening! Also the breathing and essential oils, I like them with a citrus or peppermint aroma to really calm me down. Now I use a squishy squeezy thing to keep my hands busy in the pit while waiting for the big Nutcracker cadenza for example. Trying to remember the audience is not there to judge us, but to hear our beautiful harps and we can give them the gift of a happy memory.
Great tips, thank you!
Brilliant, as ever! ❤
I even have problems playing in front of my very nice, sympathetic teacher. Soooo frustrating..
Quite normal actually to play badly in front of the teacher... especially if you want to please her!
Yelling. Who yells matters, bur somebody has to yell! Band members can yell at you. Teachers can yell at you. Passersby can yell at you.
Best, I think, is for the performer to yell. "AHHHH!!!!! $+%*&#@%" Or, as you suggest, "Next!"
Yelling. A musician's best friend.
Try recording yourself. For me at least it creates a similar sort of hyper consciousness you get during performance. Any places you mess up on you know need more work to be played smoothly under pressure.
Completely agree!
how was the pizza 😂
Hehhehehhe!
A little story about playing on the street... So Joshua Bell* decided one day to play in public in Bloomington, Indiana, near the IU music school. Joshua Freekin' Bell. Where he grew up. Where he learned his craft. Where everybody knows musicians. Nobody stopped to listen. Nobody. To Joshua Bell.
So if you want some time in front of an uncritical audience, by all means, play on the street.
*OK, Bell isn't a harpist, but c'mon, Joshua Bell. You know who he is. You don't know who Joshua Bell is? You poor, sheltered nugget.
I've heard of the story.... People are ignorant!