Which aspects of your playing suffer the most when you are nervous?

[pytheamateur]

I was performing in a students concert last Saturday (my first one in 10 years).  I had to wait nearly one hour and a half before getting on stage.  I find that in my nervous state my chord playing was able to hold on reasonably well.  On the other hand, the relatively fast passage work with semi-quavers suffered a lot more, not to mention the tendenacy to rush things.

I'd be interested in finding out what others' experiences are.

[hfmadopter]

I've been away a long time. However back when I had a teacher, she well instilled into me not to rush. That's still not a problem today. I'd say intricate work suffers and over anticipation of a large boisterous expression that you aren't really quite ready for. I think that's normal though till you get really good and learn to hold back just a bit. I'm relearning that, it's like my excellent teacher is sitting beside me, softly saying "hold back a little bit" !

David

[graceandbeauty]

It seems like just about everything goes down a little bit when I preform! My foot shakes messing up my work on the pedal I am just hope people can't here the knocking of the  pedal as it goes up and down! I tend to rush but not to badly! My interpretation is what suffers though... I am entirely focused on not making mistakes so that I forget a little bit about dynamics. So i have to practice that till it is natural.