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Addressing Performance & Anxiety: In Two Parts
Part I: Addressing Study & Practice
Part II: Addressing Performance
Performance anxiety affects many musicians! This special session is divided into two segments, with a short break between them.
This session is not focused on the drills, music, or technical, mechanical, and musical issues of practicing. Rather, it is focused on what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ in a musician’s mind and being. These approaches include some research behind them from one of the 2 Batons directors, but also include a real basis from successful outcomes from the many years of musicianship mentoring and performance experience behind them. Several approaches from various psychologists, other experts, and work from 2 Batons’ professional experiences will be shared.
Part I will include a deep discussion about and examples from various psychologically and philosophically-based approaches to studying and practicing, including how one might approach their individual study and practice sessions better by knowing themselves better. It will include some practical applications for practice sessions.
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Part II will include an application of Part I as it relates to performance, and dive into some ways musicians can prepare themselves for the high-pressured experience of performing.
Event: Saturday, July 26, 2025
10:00am - 11:45am PT (with a short break) / 1:00pm-2:45pm ET
Deadline to sign up *EXTENDED 1 DAY TO: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 (End of Day - PT)
Iron out and tackle your performance anxiety in this two-part session with a few resources to help you on your way!
FREE Practice Session Models for Instrumental Musicians
Musicians! Are you trying to figure out how to develop a practice and/or study routine on your instrument? Do you have a lot of repertoire to go through and not sure how to manage it? Not sure how to divide your practice time? Is your schedule really difficult for getting practice time in during the week? Or maybe you have more time on some days than others…
Whatever your situation, you will likely benefit from this session, or perhaps at least find another perspective! Come to this short (30-45 min) free session to explore various models of allotting your practice and study time, with some time for questions.
Event: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
4:00pm (30-45 min) PT / 7:00pm ET
Deadline to sign up: Sunday, July 13, 2025 (End of Day - PT)
Plans of Attack & The Priority Pyramid: Practicing & Preparing Your Repertoire
Original practice concepts from one of our directors and formulated by both imagination and from training and experience as well as using psychologically based concepts of learning through spiral and sequential analysis—which proved effective over and over again—this session’s topics were regularly featured in the instrumental musicianship mentoring by JoAnna. The two concepts used were individually published in the American String Teachers Journal (2014) and Stringing Along, the Nebraska Chapter of the American String Teachers Association Newsletter (2014).
Whether you are completely new to developing practice habits or are more experienced and looking for reminders and a refresh on your approach to studying, practicing, and internalizing your instrument’s repertoire, or you are working towards memorization skills or are teaching others, this session will provide support and guidance with many ideas and examples. While this event will be led from a stringed instrument perspective, there are many applicable or transferable angles for addressing practice that are relative to all musicians. Attendees will also receive the handouts from the session.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
9:30am - 10:30am PT/12:30pm - 1:30pm ET
Deadline to register: Thursday, June 5th (End of Day - PT)
FREE Score Study Mastermind Session
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled due to under-enrollment. Please stay tuned for future sessions!
Group Study and Discussion Session on Repertoire
Come and share your own insights, guided by 2 Batons Director JoAnna, and share in a group discussion and inquiry about the work(s) in question. Through participating in this antiquated tradition yet an incredibly beneficial forum-like experience, we also gain insights to other ideas in the room and enhance our own skills and knowledge. This first Mastermind Session will allow us an opportunity to practice engaging in an accessible online group discussion about the scores, history, and performance of them.
Repertoire for this session: “Storm Music”
As time allows, for this first session we will use and compare up to four short theatre orchestra scores on “Storm Music” as well as the Fourth Movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, which can be found on IMSLP:
Each of Otto Langey’s, Domenico Savino’s, and John Zamecnik’s Storm Music and Herbert Haines’s Storm or Fire Music and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, IV. Thunder. Storm.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
4:00-5:00 PM - PT / 7:00-8:00 PM - ET
Deadline to register: June 1st (End of Day - PT)