Journal · Video
Why Your Piano Performance Can Get Worse While You’re Actually Improving
16 min ·
This video accompanies the Journal essay — What If Your Concert Should Never Be Your First Performance? — from The PianoWell System. Watch it here, then read the full essay for the complete argument and detailed study.
About this video
Why a piece can feel completely secure at home and then fall apart on stage — and why the first performance is such an unreliable picture of who you can become. An exploration of the Performance Cycle, the recurring highs and lows a piece moves through under performance conditions, and how a concert can stop being your first performance.
Why the performance we care about most may need to be the last in a series of earlier performance cycles.