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 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:00 pm
Okay, the State competition is in 2 weeks, and I'm far from prepared.
It feels like the more I practice, the worse I get. What do I do? Should I take a break from the piece or what? I don't know what to do. I'm sooo frustrated right now! I've even thought of quitting piano because it seems that I'm on a downward spiral and it seems I'm not improving!
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 7:52 am
that happens to everyone at some point i think! i know its happened to me a couple of times. what i usually do is take a break for a couple of months from my piano lessons. though i guess that won't work in your case, why not try not being serious for a while a just play something completly random to relax, a couple of great ways to do that are to just sit down a improve to you hearts content, or choose something completly stupidly easy and try to play it as fast as humanly possible without worrying about mistakes. just remember to make it fun because if something you like doing stops being fun it becomes more like work and less like something you do because it makes you happy!
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Le Aristocrat Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:58 pm
I think you need to relax a bit. You're obviously not enjoying music right now, and I think that's your main problem, not the lack of practice.
I don't think that you should take a break from the piece, but you can't let the piece dominate all of your time at the piano. Do some improvisation, sight read some pieces. Enjoy yourself, warm up properly, make sure you're calm, focused and collected. Then practice.
Don't you dare quit. You're far too talented. Besides, this is one competition. Don't get too worked up. If it goes well, that's fantastic, but you have so much ahead of you whatever happens.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:14 pm
Thanks... but it's the competition that I've been preparing for since last July-August-ish. I just learned that the more mistakes, the better, because it shows that I'm working hard enough that the small parts are showing up? I don't know if that made any sense.. lol.
- I don't think i'm going to quit... I was just frustrated that day because I would play the coda of the Chopin and it would turn out like BLAHH. D:
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:36 am
I'm not sure if this is late or not, but I think you might need to take a small break. Probably not now, but when I take a break from something after constant practice and I return I'm usually a a lot better. Weird how that works. Maybe you should keep it in mind for next time.
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