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Performance strategies for musicians : how to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety and perform at your peak... using NLP and visualisation ; a self-help handbook for anyone who performs - musicians, singers, actors, dancers, athletes and business managers and executives / David Buswell.

By: Buswell, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hertfordshire : MX Publishing, 2006Description: 237 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781904312222.Subject(s): Music -- Performance -- Psychological aspects | Performance anxietyDDC classification: 781.43111
Contents:
Musicians and mental wellbeing -- Mental skills training -- The performing state -- Breathing -- Relaxation -- Visualisation and mental rehearsal -- Changing state -- Practice -- Pre-performance -- Performance -- Post-performance -- Over to you -- Performance issues and recommended solutions.
Summary: Performance strategies for musicians has applications for anyone who has to perform in public. The book aims to help performers develop mental resilience, gain the most from practice time, prepare for performance (by using mental preparation techniques and creating pre-performance routines) and manage emotional and physical states during performance.

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How to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety and perform at your peak -using NLP and visualisation.

Bibliography: p. 227-228. - Includes index.

Musicians and mental wellbeing -- Mental skills training -- The performing state -- Breathing -- Relaxation -- Visualisation and mental rehearsal -- Changing state -- Practice -- Pre-performance -- Performance -- Post-performance -- Over to you -- Performance issues and recommended solutions.

Performance strategies for musicians has applications for anyone who has to perform in public. The book aims to help performers develop mental resilience, gain the most from practice time, prepare for performance (by using mental preparation techniques and creating pre-performance routines) and manage emotional and physical states during performance.