So much good sense here, drawn from your own experiences. We all tend to feel in a vacuum about anxiety prior to performance, so it‘s really good to have you share your technigues to offset the negative feelings. It‘s good to know that we‘re all in the same boat as musicians. Thankyou so much for sharing this, and to know that all positive thoughts transcribe to a flawless performance.

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Exactly!!

@sessionsunderthesun3042

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Hi, @richardforshaw8479. Appreciative to connect with you in this community. 🙂 I’ve been a musician for over 15 years now and still experience stage performance anxiety symptoms. As a recent doctoral graduate, I wanted to dive into personal research as I connect with others who experience similar anxieties whether on stage, speaking and presenting in general. Would you be open to sharing some of your valuable insights with me? Just Looking for those willing to help with my research! Grateful to find a community here! 😊

Thank you! My teacher once told me what NOT to do before a concert. One she did the mistake and took a relaxation bath and she said this was the worst idea she ever had before a concert because she lost muscle strength but stayed nervous and this combination was quite bad. - I like the idea with the concentration on the first few bars very much!

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Yes I can imagine the feeling. Everyone has their own pre-concert rituals, of course. And I think the key is to find the right mix between focus and relaxation. Thanks for watching:)

You're the best piano teacher on KZread!

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Thank you so much 😊😊

Thank you for always sharing so generously

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It really is my pleasure!

Absolutely perfect!!!🎹

Thank so much, Danae! I've been watching a lot of your videos! You are so good, genuine and giving person .🌺

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🤗🙏🏻

You are so positive, so beautiful person. Thank you

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Thank you so much 😊

Thank you for this, this was so helpful I had two concerts last week and had a big memory slip in one of them!! I decided to play with the score for the second one but I even got anxious and messed up the coda of the ballade I was playing in the second one haha So thanks for the tips!! This was so helpful and made me feel not alone 🥺

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Mistakes and messing up sometimes are all part of the process - it has happened to all of us. 😉 I wish you all the best for your further piano journey! Thanks for watching :)

Valeu!

When I am anxious, I climb into the piano, and shut the lid before the audience arrives…😩

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😂

Thanks for your tips. I'll definitely use them to prepare for my piano exam coming up!!

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That’s great, I wish you all the very best for it!!

Thanks for the thoughtful tips. Performance anxiety for me usually explodes into a sort of mental chaos, which is why I gave up the idea of pursuing any sort of professional life as a pianist (except church gigs, assisted living facilities and the like). Beta blockers help but I don't like taking them. --

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I can totally understand that. And how wonderful that you found ways to still share your music with other people, that’s very impressive.

Danae, only if you have time!, could you explain how to know when to change keys up or down if it not written in the music! Or is this something that will come in time ? The music I have definitely changes keys but,the only notation is the fingering numbers,all the same sizes! Thank you and only if you have time to answer Fran

One thing I've learned to do, regarding mistakes while performing, is to basically play right through it to the best of my ability, so it doesn't break the overall tempo / timing of the piece. (This is especially useful when I'm an accompanist.) Also much of my (preferrred) playing is more along the lines of on-the-fly improvisation, not so much "play the notes exactly as written". I feel it gives me more leeway as far as interpretation of the piece, substituting other notes / chords here and there, etc. One downside, though, is it makes some mistakes quite a bit more obvious, even to those who don't know the piece or aren't all that musically inclined.

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Yes, I love the advice about not breaking the tempo! 👌🏻

@pianoplayer88key

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I was just remembering a time quite a few years ago (maybe 15 or so, I forget now) I was playing piano for a church congregation near Sacramento, CA, USA. It was a Sunday morning after a wedding, so there were probably I'd guess a few hundred people there or so. The church service was in a friend's back yard (they have several acres), and I was playing on one of those older Yamaha P-series digital pianos (I think it was the P60). On this one, to do some functions, you played a couple keys at the low end of the piano, and simultaneously played a key in the middle octave, to do things like change the tuning (relative to A440), transpose the piano, etc. Well, one of the hymns we were singing, and I was playing ... had an A major chord somewhere in the song. Well sometimes I like to play chords even at the bottom of the piano, so I played A0+C#1+E1 (an A-major chord at the extreme low end) while playing something in the 4th octave. On that keyboard, to transpose, you hold A0+C#1, and play a key between C4 and B4. (The numbering system I'm using is octave numbers change on every C going up, lowest 4 notes are A0, A#0, B0, C1, middle C is C4, A440 is A4, and so on.) Anyway when I did that, the piano transposed itself to a quite different key (I think maybe Eb or E or F or something like that, idk, or maybe A or G but it was nowhere close to the original key). So I had to quickly figure out what key the piano had transposed to (I think it took a couple notes / beats), and play in the NEW key, so that the song could continue sounding in the original key ... and I had to do it on-the-fly. 😛 I couldn't take the time to use that same function to transpose the piano back to its normal key....also normally when I play pianos and need to transpose for whatever reason, like people ask me to play something in a different key, I'm so used to transposing by moving my hands on the keyboard, not by pushing buttons on a digital piano and making the keys sound different than they are. That actually throws me off, except when playing a piano whose tuning has been neglected for a while - if I play a C and it sounds like a B or Bb, I can handle that, but not if it sounds like an E or F or G, that's a challenge for me. That incident taught me a personal lesson - when / if I buy a digital piano, avoid one that requires only playing keys to do functions, make sure it requires hitting other buttons as well. Also I run out of keys a lot, so I like ones that have dedicated octave shift buttons, like the Roland FA-08 and Juno-DS88, if only I could afford one though....for now I have two Baldwin Hamilton uprights from the 1950s - they used to be (and may still be) very common in schools, teaching studios, etc. here in the USA (may possibly have been the best-selling 45"-class studio uprights in the 2nd half of the 20th century, if not all time, idk), and I love the sound of them. 😍

3 Valium, 10 mg Melatonin, then someone can help me into the chair. After that I have an espresso and play a heck of a version of twinkle, twinkle little star, ( just kidding), awesome video and info Danae thank you!

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Actually, I do not have any anxiety when I am fully ready. I can play as if I were playing in my living room. I am kind of afraid if I know that I am not ready.

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That’s amazing! I definitely agree that the best thing you can do is to be 100% prepared 💪🏻

WARNING: I see two "comments" under this video which are redirects, most likely to a hacking site. Each as a time and under that a link to some website in India. The name is probably a hacked channel, as they are all different. I have seen this under videos on other YT channels I visit and report them when I see them. I did not report these because I want you to see them. You should report them and nobody should click on them.

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Thank you!! Just reported them.:)