Piano/Anxiety Tips

[tonyishere]

Hey, so I'm a first year music major and hopefully one day, a band teacher. One of my classes requires me to know piano, which wouldn't be so bad, but you know how dyspraxia likes to be and gives my left hand the coordination of a freaking cantaloupe. I have a final exam on my skills tomorrow, which have been through some painful progress, would anyone have tips so I don't freeze up when I play and can't keep my fingers straight?

Also if there is anyone who plays piano on here, do you have tips for overcoming co-ordination issues?

[Tom fod]

Hi Tony and welcome.

I'm regrettably not very musical myself but we have had the subject of playing the piano discussed before.

If you search the forum there are about a hundred hits for piano

Hope your exam went much better than how you feared it might?

[Jim]

I have no musical ability at all... but if things go wrong you could borrow a line from Eric Morecombe “I am playing all of the right notes.. but not nessacarily in the correct order”.