Accordion Concertina Playing.
Great Start for the Accordion Concertina.
Accordion Concertina is very lucky to have found such a helpful article. Accordion Concertina feels that Lynn has done a fantastic job with just getting started. I have to say that like with anything you want to be good at. You have to practice for years to be a master. Everybody finds there own little groove along the way usually.
How to Play Accordion - Practice Playing in Public and Reduce Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety is one of the things that puts many people off playing their instrument in public. Most people know that feeling of fear, the wobbly legs, the dry mouth, the feeling that you are just going to make a big fool of yourself. It can happen in any situation, not just playing instruments, singing or acting. People get nervous about reading, speaking and doing all sorts of things in front of an audience. But the key thing to remember is that in order to get over the fear you have to go through it. And the longer you put it off, the bigger that fear monster seems to get.
You may well be thinking "What me? Play my accordion in front of someone else? No way!" But one of the joys of playing any instrument is to entertain others, even if it's only your family. So it's worth working on your performance skills even when you're still in the early stages of learning how to play accordion. If you start off by playing to friends and family when you KNOW you're going to make mistakes, you may well find that playing in public is less of an ordeal later on in your musical career.
The difference between a performer and someone who never gets up in front of an audience, is that the performer goes ahead and does it despite the fear. Many famous entertainers still suffer from anxiety after many years of successful performing. It doesn't stop them. In fact, some people believe that it actually fuels them in some way - that they perform better when they are nervous.
Make a point of playing to others right from the beginning of your accordion career, and you will be less likely to have performance anxiety problems later on. Playing with a band or on your own in public will be less scary, and you'll be able to do it whether you are nervous or not. In fact, you'll probably enjoy it!
So start performing as soon as you can confidently play a few easy tunes. Practice them over and over again until you know them so well that your fingers remember where to go, even when you're not concentrating fully. Then find a family member or friend (a group of friends if you're really feeling brave) to be your first audience. Tell them you that you are learning how to play accordion and want to perform some pieces for them.
Arrange a time and a place and then do it, no matter what! Put on a confident front, even if you don't feel it. If you make mistakes, don't stop, just keep playing. Most importantly, smile and enjoy it. Your audience will take their cue from you and will probably love you for it, whatever your playing is like. After all, you're doing something that many of them probably wouldn't be able to do and they'll respect you for that!
Once you have got over the hurdle of your first performance, you'll find it easier to tackle the next one, and will find you have an incentive to keep up your practicing so that you can learn new tunes and increase your repertoire.
Lynn is a teacher and has been enthusiastically playing accordion for over 20 years.
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Accordion Concertina playing takes many years to practice.I think that waiting to play in front of a crowd is a great idea.