Confidence

Ninety percent of the time I have confidence down pat. But that other ten percent tends to creep up on me and get me when I’m not ready. I don’t like to perform. I can practice as long as you want me to and I love to teach, but when I perform I have a terrible habit of psyching myself out simple things that I have never gotten wrong before suddenly become impossible. Confidence is as key in music as it is in sports like basket ball. When I was in basketball I did almost the same thing during a game I would miss shots that I never missed in practice. If you are not confident on the field the other player will notice and take advantage of it and in music if you are not confident you sound like you have no idea what you are doing. I use to not be very confident in my weighting; I was so worried about getting the paper “write” that my teacher said all of my papers were wishy washy.

In music you are though that even if you are scared to perform you pretend that you are the most confident player there. And in sports you learn to forget the around and just play like it is a scrimmage. I learned that when I’m waiting for me and me alone my papers turn out a thousand times better. So I pretend that there isn’t a teacher there to grade me.

           These tricks might not help you at all, but if you can find that thing that takes the fear away all of your failed attempts will be worth it. Being confident affects something deep inside of you. To be honest I’m not sure what it is but your hours of practice or the three rough drafts you wrote don’t go out the window. You can make that basket, play that tough measure, and you sound like you know what you know what you are talking about when you write. My roommate, Katelynn Crisp says that “If someone sounds like they know what they are talking about I be leave them because I have no reason not to.” a lot of people think that way. So do you sound like you know what you are talking about?