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| What Do You Do About Feeling Discouraged?, There are those days... |
| lilly763 |
 Oct 17 2010, 01:14 PM
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...when it feels like your pieces will never be good enough, your playing sounds terrible, you feel like you're not getting anywhere, practicing feels like a chore. How do you deal with this? Play other non-exam pieces for a bit, listen to music rather than practicing, study for Viva Voce (for diplomas), practice another instrument... what are your ideas?
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| Mad Tom |
Oct 19 2010, 11:13 PM
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QUOTE(lilly763 @ Oct 17 2010, 03:14 PM)  ...when it feels like your pieces will never be good enough, your playing sounds terrible, you feel like you're not getting anywhere, practicing feels like a chore. How do you deal with this? Play other non-exam pieces for a bit, listen to music rather than practicing, study for Viva Voce (for diplomas), practice another instrument... what are your ideas? No. It just never happens. Yes I sound terrible sometimes, but not always, I know that on average I am improving. Practicing is always a joy, never a chore. Feeling discouraged - it just doesn't happen. I know that I'll never be a Horowitz or a Rubinstein (or Argerich or Hamelin) ... but now and again I'll play better than I thought I ever could, and move someone, and reveal to them something of the beauty and power that is in the music that we are so lucky to have at our fingertips. And that is enough. |
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lilly763 What Do You Do About Feeling Discouraged? Oct 17 2010, 01:14 PM
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...when it feels like your pieces will never be g... Oct 17 2010, 01:35 PM corenfa When I was a music student I didn't know the a... Oct 17 2010, 02:19 PM BadStrad Hi Lilly,
I have two ways with dealing with this. ... Oct 17 2010, 05:10 PM piano*singing*lover
...when it feels like your pieces will never be g... Oct 19 2010, 10:15 PM
pianoeater
No. It just never happens. Yes I sound terrible... Oct 20 2010, 05:58 AM Panthera I also take time out - just playing something fun ... Oct 20 2010, 05:17 PM corenfa Another thing I do is to play really self-indulgen... Oct 26 2010, 09:24 PM sbhoa Talk to my musical friends and to my teachers.
Bet... Oct 27 2010, 06:41 PM kathrobert Go for a walk, or a run. Get some space to let th... Oct 27 2010, 11:04 PM jojo
Or if that fails, jog to cafe and buy big sticky... Nov 2 2010, 02:08 PM ChristopherO I am a lucky person in that I rarely get discourag... Oct 28 2010, 08:06 AM heslop01 I would just dust off all my troubles and tell mys... Nov 7 2010, 02:55 PM |
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