1st Edition

Performance Success Performing Your Best Under Pressure

By Don Greene Copyright 2002
    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.

    1. Artist’s Performance Survey, Take Stock of Your Strengths and Weaknesses, 2. Your Musical Benchmark, Make a Before Tape, 3. Under the Hot Lights, Learn How Stress Affects You, 4. The Seven Essential Skills for Optimal Performance, What Your Scores Mean and How to Improve Them, DETERMINATION, POISE, MENTAL OUTLOOK, EMOTIONAL APPROACH, ATTENTION, CONCENTRATION, RESILIENCE 5. Advanced Training, Put Your New Skills to Work 6. The Countdown, Get Ready for the Big Event

    Biography

    Don Greene, Ph.D. is a sports psychologist who has worked with groups as diverse as the US Olympic Diving Team, police departments, and opera companies. He is the author of Audition Success, also published by Routledge, and Fight Your Fear and Win (Broadway Books). He teaches at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.