Monday, April 12, 2010
Hi everyone
I know many of you may be feeling disappointed and discouraged cos of today, but I just want to say don't be. What had been done today is done and we cannot change it. But we still have the chance to decide how we want to perform on HeARTbeat and Emmanuel. I know all of you really want play well for the concert. So lets learn from our mistakes we made today and make good use of the time we have left to work together as a band to give the best performance ever.
After working so hard for the past few months, putting in so much of our effort and time to practice, I'm sure we deserve a REALLY EXTREMELY big round of applause, but all of our efforts will go to waste if we don't perform well which WE CAN. If we can play well in the band room, we can too in the concert hall. Don't be nervous and forget everything when you are nervous like Mr Pang said.
If you have stage fright, here are some tips:)
Tip # 1: Make Fun of Your Audience In Your Mind
One effective and well-known tip for reducing stagefright is to imagine your audience in funny ways, so as to make it less daunting to perform in front of them!
You could imagine their heads to be watermelons, and think of how silly it would be to have an audience of watermelons watching you perform!
Another useful tip would be for you to look through your audience by fixing your visual focal point at a point far behind them.
The audience will still think you are looking at them, but because you are not looking at their faces or their eyes, it makes it less scary for you onstage as a performer!
Tip # 2: Deep Breaths...
Whenever we feel the onset of stagefright or performance anxiety, it would do good for us to practice deep breathing to calm our nerves and stay relaxed and focussed.
Another way for you to relax is to tense up all the muscles in your body and clench your fists hard, and then relax all your muscles and let all the tension leave your body.
This allows you to feel more relaxed and let the stress or nervousness leave your body before you go onstage to perform!
Okay enough of that just rmb that the audience is your friend. Instead of seeing the audience as people there to be critical of you, try to remember they are really just there to support you and enjoy the music. Try to take the thing that is making you most nervous—playing in front of a lot of people—and use it to your advantage. And as long you know your pieces well, you will play well:)
And the most important thing is JUST HAVE FUN.
"What's the point of all this work if you can't enjoy yourself? Try to remember what it is you love about your instrument and music in the first place. You spend so much time practicing, and at the end of the day, a concert, whether 5 minutes or 2 hours, is only a short span of time relative to all your hard work. Try to just relax and have a good time. Treat the performance as a celebration of your hard work rather than an intimidating experience. A concert is a good goal at the end of a long process. If you can get to the point of enjoying the whole process from learning the first note of a piece to performing it, then the concert just becomes a final, natural step in the process of learning a program, rather than the ultimate test of your nerves."
To all Sec4s:
I know all of you are really stressed, esp with mid years coming real soon. Some of you may also be struggling with school work and band(like me) but it will soon be over,5 more days!! Just perservere on for another 5 days. Emmanuel concert is really the last concert you will ever perform with PLCB'10. After this concert, we won't have the same ppl performing another one anymore. Being in PLCB for almost 4 years, putting in so much effort and time, I'm sure you all want to end it well right and not regret it after that. After this saturday, you won't be sitting in the band room every Tuesdays and Thursday practicing with your juniors anymore. So this is like the last week having band prac together. I don't know if all of you will miss it but I'm sure a few will definitely miss it. Even though we did badly today, but I believe if we all just put our heart into it and practise hard the next few days, we can and will put up a great performance. And after that, we will have all the time to study hard and prepare for mid years, prelims and Os. So perservere on!!
To everyone:
We have worked so much and came so far so let's press on and finish this race together.
Let's make everyone proud of us. I belive we can do it!:) ADD OIL 加油加油 Let's show everyone what PLCB is all about.
PLCB FIGHTING!!!
I can do everything through him who gives me strength. [Philippians 4:13]
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.[Frank Loyd Wright]
"Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything."[Dr. Wayne W. Dyer ]
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