there's nothing worse than hearing from your teacher that you play with too much tension.
"RELAX," they say.
and you're like, "EASY FOR YOU TO SAY, DUDE. i can't help it."
and no matter what you try to do, you feel your muscles tightly holding the instrument while you play.
tension has all sorts of negative consequences:
ruins your tone
prevents you from playing fast passages
causes injury
makes you shake
probably a bunch more things
so... can you fix tension in your playing?
can you play looser, reduce pressure, and relax?
or are you doomed to be a person who plays with tension forever?
the answer is... HELL NO.
if you practice it in the right way, you can learn to master tension, just like you've mastered so many things before.
tension is an absolutely solvable problem. i'll show you how. it's simple.
today's video is called how to reduce tension in your technique.
i'm going over:
how to sound better + play faster
how to be more relaxed in auditions
why you actually need some tension all the time
3 exercises to reduce tensio
watch:
