Performance Report #2 (plus recording)
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@Steve-Miller said in Performance Report #2 (plus recording):
Congratulations on sticking the landing when you played for your guests!
Thank you Steve! I like the thought being like an Olympic athlete and sticking the landing!
Now that youāve done it once I suspect it will happen more often in the future.
Hopefully!
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@Rontuner exactly! I was thinking Iād be ok because I play different pianos all the time at my lesson. But I realized that at my lesson, I have different goals mind and Iām listening in a different way, so a sub-par piano doesnāt throw me. In a performance , things are different!
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Well done @ShiroKuro. Well done on getting through the less-than-ideal performance and on "acing" the next one.
It's good that you'd like to play at the retirement centre again. I think the experience on Tuesday would have made you a better performer.
I'm in no position to be giving you or anyone advice, but if I was going to perform at a place like that, I might ask them if I could spend a bit of time practising on their piano, depending on whether I thought practising there would be awkward. And I'd do some of my practice at home with the TV or radio on, or a recording that's mostly quiet with some occasional noises for distraction.
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Thank you @AndyD !
Yes, I probably need to do some kind of practicing with background noise, that would definitely help.
I have my next lesson on Wednesday. Iām going to take the recordings in, I donāt want to listen to all of them in their entirety because that would use up too much of the lesson time (and I already have new music Iāve started on, yay!)
But I do want to play parts of the recordings where you can hear a few of the trouble spots, Iād like to see what he thinksā¦ or maybe we should listen to one recording at each lesson, then we could listen to each recording in full. Iāll ask him what he recommends of course.Anyway, Iām curious about whether the spots where I messed up the most noticeably have something in the music that triggered it, for example, are those places (passages) that were weak already, or were they truly ārandomā mistakes brought on by nothing more than nerves? Actually, I can do some of that āpost-mortemā myself. Now that Iām past the initial disappointment, I think I should do that.
Speaking of lessons, next semester I want to see if I can switch to 60-minute lessons (right now I have 45-minute lessons). Iām pretty sure I wonāt run out of things to work on!
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SK, the recording is beautiful and there's so much there to be happy with. I suspect the same can be said of the other two pieces you played. We do tend to inflate glitches to unworldly proportions, when to any sane person the playing probably delivered a lot of pleasure.
I got the feeling you were being a bit unfair by comparing yourself to two music students. I'm assuming they're majoring in music, correct? If so, they've had opportunities that you haven't. Specifically: Playing for others... a lot.
Which brings me to my final point. I never felt more comfortable playing in front of people than when I was taking lessons, and a weekly group class. In the first weeks of class I'd be a nervous wreck when it was my time to solo something I had worked on and was "ready" to perform. It was awful. But, the advantage of being able to go through the process repeatedly took the edge off "mistakes" and I slowly gained confidence. It is quite true that performing needs practice just as much as technique of the instruments.
Thanks for posting the recording. I really enjoyed it.
