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Tag Archives: Nerves
The Beauty of Simplicity
This week, I had the privilege of meeting a pianist who had a few issues with nerves associated with performing. She said she felt that the audience would be critical of her if she made a mistake. That was quite … Continue reading
Nurturing Inspiration at Short Notice – A refresher for the author!
Whilst writing the book, I realised that it was all very well me saying to others, “You can and will be confident” when all I do is take very small risks by accompanying students in weekly student performances and playing … Continue reading
Lee Risdale, Soul Singer, Walks the Walk
One of the key principles of NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is that if you desire to get better, find the people who are already doing what you want to do and work out from them what YOU need to do. … Continue reading
Following Your Inspiration Makes You Confident
This week saw 3 fabulous interviews with very different musicians and the last of the interviews of the week was with the remarkable musician and performer, Tristan Hendy from signed PunkPop band NativeJune. Everything about Tristan’s personality oozes a natural … Continue reading
Posted in Improving Confidence in others, performance strategies, Strategies for recording., Thinking in a better way
Tagged Clive Stocker, confidence, confident performer, confident performing, nativejune, Nerves, performance nerves, planet LA records, recording, seeing the bigger picture, stage fright, tristan hendy
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Is Musical Technique the refuge of the insecure, or a foundation for Mastery?
This question popped into my mind whilst in conversation with the professional singer and vocal coach Basira Ward-Davies with respect to the slight difference in approach she had experienced collaborating with Youth, a producer who has worked with Primal Scream, … Continue reading
Posted in performance strategies, Thinking in a better way
Tagged acting, basira ward-davies, Clive Stocker, confidence, confident performer, confident performing, Freddie Mercury, Nerves, performance nerves, refuge for the insecure, seeing the bigger picture, technical mastery, troy, youth
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Teaching Others to be Confident
As musicians, we often spend some of our time teaching. At least half of the students in the music class I lecture are either teaching an instrument or have taught an instrument at some time. We must never reinforce negative … Continue reading
Red Light Recording Fever
The Holy Grail of Recording. Having a recording session for a musician can be like the holy grail. A permanent record of music, something to put in the personal archives. Ever since I got my first four track tape recorder, I … Continue reading
Recording Red Light Fever
Red light fever. Having a recording session for a musician can be like the holy grail. A permanent record of music, something to put in the personal archives. Ever since I got my first four track tape recorder, I realised … Continue reading
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