| Re: Excerpt Issue
It sounds like you are lacking "flow" while playing excerpts. This has been studied extensively by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:
"How does it feel to be in 'the flow'?
Completely involved, focused, concentrating - with this either due to innate curiosity or as the result of training
Sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality
Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going
Knowing the activity is doable - that the skills are adequate, and neither anxious or bored
Sense of serenity - no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego - afterwards feeling of transcending ego in ways not thought possible
Timeliness - thoroughly focused on present, don't notice time passing
Intrinsic motivation - whatever produces 'flow' becomes its own reward"
This comes about after "overlearning" (which is normal for us, practicing past the point of getting it right once). Being "in the flow" is what wins auditions. If either anxiety and boredom are too high, the flow can't happen. Fun stuff, flow.
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