Cure your NERVOUSNESS !!!

One of the biggest problems students have is being nervous playing during lesson. I have written extensively about this in other places, but recently a fellow piano teacher directed me to an article that provides a technique to combat student nervousness, perhaps even cure it. Here is the link to the article:

http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/toastmasters.asp

The article concerns itself with public speaking, but it's not much of a stretch to take that to public "playing!"

I've begun an experiment with my own students, asking them to try the technique presented in the article and report back on their success (or lack of it.) I encourage anyone reading this to do the same. You could try the method and then add a comment to this short blog post. You would really be helping your fellow pianists, no matter what your final level of nervousness!