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Offline sirpazhan

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performance block
on: March 18, 2011, 01:44:27 AM
Has anyone ever had a complete brain freeze during a particular section of a piece they've routinely played hundreds, if not thousands of times?

drawing a complete blank to a point where even after a days rest, the only way to reiterate the forgotten is by turning to your notes?

and then it's as though you have to re-learn from 'zero'

\\\\\\\"I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven\\\\\\\"