alexander technique
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Sometimes we all get in the way of ourselves
http://youtu.be/GNc6qTwC7OY I’ve never experienced a relaxed performing experience. It’s always been a matter of hoping and praying that practice will have been enough and that my performance will be a quarter as fluent as it was in practice. This has really frustrated me. How is it fair that I become a completely different musician when I’m…
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The Performance Mind
Hope you’re enjoying my crazy little poems- I write them as an attempt to iron out the anxieties and thoughts in my head and hope they may provide a different perspective for other artists/ musicians. I’m aware how many people suffer from performance anxiety or stage fright and how often the remedies we are given…
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I’m worried that I now look boring when playing
Since addressing the impact my technique was having on my body, I discovered that much of the tension I was creating was from extreme movement of my body and head and neck. I discovered that although I thought my movements were freeing my music, they were clearly impacting on my body in a negative way.…
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Because I know I’ve changed and that’s what matters
In a musicians life, it’s surprisingly easy for your life to turn on its head and in 6 months. You are faced with a different person with changed aspirations and views on life. That is a short description of the past 6 months for me. From mid January I have sustained an ambiguous music-related, RSI…
Hattie Butterworth 