How Practicing Performing Can Set You Up For Success
Practicing how your clarinet performance will go outside of just the music-making is essential for your success!
Here are some moments that we don’t practice enough:
- Right before you perform (both physically and mentally!): how you set your music stand and clarinets up - especially if you have multiple - and your mental routine and visualization.
- The time in-between excerpts or pieces: how you reset or release, how you move (back) to a positive mindset, and how you collect the energy for the next piece.
Moving from one space to another is an effective and easy way to practice performing and get the nitty gritty with all the little things you don’t realize are important to the process.
Try this exercise!
Move from one space to another.
It’s that simple!
Warm up in one room - we suggest a space that you are comfortable in, like your usual practice space.
Set up a music stand in your “performance” room. When you’re ready, walk in, take a bow, or do whatever you need to set your things up, or if you’re doing excerpts for an audition, your routine for that.
Then play the pieces or excerpts without stopping to fix or practice anything!
This exercise will help with clarinet audition preparation, college ensemble audition prep, and more!
Happy practicing!
P.S.- To make your upcoming performance even better, download our 3-Day Performance Challenge and try it out!
