The Joy Of Making Music - Performance Anxiety - Series #3

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY:

Now just those two words together are enough to make anyone nervous. But we need to take the fear out of performance anxiety as strange as that sounds.

The truth is as human beings we all experience a measure of anxiety and as performers we all experience some level of performance anxiety.  On a scale of 1-10 some of us are a 1 and some of us are a 10.  I’ve been a 1 and I’ve been a 10.  I’ve experienced the whole range of performance anxiety at one time or another during my career, and more than likely I will again!

Some of the most successful artists today have experienced some of the highest levels of performance anxiety and still do.

Just because you experience performance anxiety doesn’t mean you can’t have an enormously successful career.  You are not alone in this. We all experience it from…