ever have one of those weeks where you just seem to have lost the ability to play anything????


I tried to practice several tiems for my exam and it just isnt happening no more

I was playing the piece perfectly and now im having my off week haha


any one else get this?

Yep, all the time! It always gets better though, so just keep going and you'll find that it's suddenly better th next time

I think sometimes you can overplay pieces....or just practise to much...

I've been given advice when this happens just to not play for a day or two, and then go back to it. I, however, can't bear to take this advice because I'm always like "No! I HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT!!" coz I'm a bit of a perfectionist. But whenever I have taken the advice it has actually worked

It can also be down to stress and stuff....I know that when I play and do something wrong, it really annoys me, and the more annoyed I get, the more I do wrong!!! So that's the time to have a little break

Good luck, and don't worry you'll be back to your usual standard soon

Laura

Oh yes I get these kind of weeks all the time, to the point that I sit in my lesson just saying to my teacher 'I can't play this week.'

Then she says 'have you not done any practice?!?!!!?!?' when in actual fact i've done LOADS!

Yes you can overplay. Definately.

Oh yes! I haven't been able to play anything properly for about a fortnight, and I haven't really wanted to either. I would really like for something to inspire me but even listening to some of my favourite music doesn't work just now. I don't think having a new teacher is helping...I mean, she's great but she doesn't make things sound as 'enticing' as my old teacher. As it is, rather than giving up completely (for now anyway!) I might just play things I really want to play and get right, rather than force myself to perfect something I hate, no matter how much I know I need to do it.

Hmm...that doesn't make much sense. You're certainly not alone though!

Yes, this happened about 2 weeks before my exam. I practiced even more and during those practice sessions, I focused in only on a few bars or a few notes of the scale and did more sight reading. I completely avoided playing through my pieces until my playing improved to minimise damaging my already low confidence. It took a few days before things went back to normal but I was pretty worried about my playing during those few days.

Hang on there, the good playing days will come back again.

G

The worst thing to do (which did once)...

is to overpractise on the morning of the exam, when everything appears to go wrog with the pieces...

and the old phrase about a bad rehearsal, a good performance.

But best thing to do if overpractising is just stop for a day or two (even if its really hard lol), it'll be all the better when you start again.