Are You Nervous for Your Piano Recital?
Many parents consider their children for piano lessons as they feel that it helps with their school studies and the fact is the piano is a universally popular instrument. Some, if not most piano instructors have piano recitals for their students annually or more often. Many parents love watching their child perform and view it is a benchmark ofr their child’s activities and give it a sense of achievment.
What is a piano recital exactly? It’s basically a concert that is put on by various piano students who choose a piece that will challenge them and they work towards perfecting it. The students have a chance to show their parents and loved ones what they have learned from all of those hard hours of practice so that piano recitals are actually a very valuable tool.
If you’re a student, there is a lot of preparation that goes into your performance at the recital. One of the best things that you can do for your recital is practice for a few hours every day if possible. Even if you feel somewhat comfortable with your piece, keep on practicing as the song should flow easily.
Besides practicing the piano pieces, the student should rehearse the upcoming recital pieces in his or her minds. Once you as a visualizer imagine that you know your pieces well and get a good response from the audience, your subconscious will begin to believe it as a part of reality. After repeated visualizations, this will appear to seem to be the truth to the subconscious and you as a student will be more relaxed and prepared for the recital.
Piano recitals are a good way to build self-confidence but some well-intentioned parents want to stop their child from experiencing them because of potential mistakes or lack of self-confidence. The parent might worry that performing in a recital might precipitate a setback in their child’s personality development, but this says something more about the parent’s personality and negative viewpoint about life. Most parents truly want to see their child perform as they often ask the piano recital when the next recital will happen.
See if your child is looking forward to performing in the recital. Are they overly nervous about performing in front of an audience? They may be needing some affirmation of their ability by their families so they begin to anticipate looking forward for their recital.
Many parents of music students make too much of a fuss over their child performing in a recital. Because they lack the self-confidence in themselves, they project that uncertainty and low self-esteem on their child’s ability as a piano player. This negativity transfer itself to the child who then believes they are not good enough as the next student.
Parents need to be less critical and relax. Mention that performing will be something to look forward to as they have progressed over the year. The performance of recital pieces will be a great culmination of the school year when the student has worked so hard to learn his or her pieces.
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