Notes from the Green Room: Coping with Stress and Anxiety in Musical Performance

Methods for overcoming pre-performance jitters

Notes from the Green Room explains the causes of musicalperformance anxiety and suggests methods for dealing with iteffectively. The authors show how proper preparation-as well astechniques such as learning experiments, relaxation training,tension management, and graded exposure to groups of varioussizes-can relieve the compulsion that often accompanies anindividual's performance. An essential resource for musicians atany level.