Quality Practice

This guided visualisation helps you to develop sensory awareness – a great way to warm up and to reach a state of deep engagement.

Here’s a visualisation exercise to help you connect with yourself – body, mind, and emotion – to help you be in a centred state for practice, performance and for formulating goals.

A very practical mental training tool for preparing your performances is to do a Performance Preparation Visualisation. Positive visualization exercises have the best effects when you do them directly before going to sleep. Try this one for a few nights before an important performance to release fear and stress and to program positive expectations and a convincing performance.

Which strategies can help you to be able to say ‘I am well prepared’? Here is a look at the weeks before a performance and how you can best use them.

How do you know if you are ready to perform something? Performing is a skill that needs to be developed and practiced. Once you know you can play a piece convincingly, you need to practice trust. Performance preparation involves practicing musical focus, building concentration, confidence and the ability to stay on track after a mistake. Having control over your thoughts and having something to say.