Performance Anxiety « Murphy Music

Performance Anxiety

by Sharon on Jan.17, 2009, under Performance

Here are some notes on combating performance anxiety.

Visualize your performance
Put the moment into perspective
Try playing cold turkey
Wear yourself out first (running up a flight of stairs before playing does this perfectly)
Tape yourself
Have others listen
Deep breaths
Affirmation
Stay hydrated

sharon

I definitely agree Samantha :) By the way, any chance I could get copies of any notes or handouts you may have received during that master class?
Samantha Holman

There's a class this semester that’’s dedicated to helping out with performance anxiety. It’‘s a mastery class taught by Harry Pickens I think. Oh dear, I don’’t remember for sure. But it’‘s focus is just what this post is - ways to gain confidence when performing - or individual confidence in itself. The first class was pretty good I think; it’‘s certainly going to be an interesting year.

But definitely, these tips cannot be over-taught because no matter how good we are, we all deal with a type of performance anxiety.