Quick tips
- Start rehearsal for di part wey you dey fear, no be di top.
- Out loud and full speed, if not e no be rep.
- Three clean runs of di hard part beat ten easy ones.
You sabi dis thing well well. You don put in di hours, you know di material, and if somebody stop you for corridor ask you make you explain di middle part, you fit do am right there. Na exactly why rehearsal dey turn sweet. Practice dey drift go di parts wey already sound good, because to run dem dey feel like say you sabi am, but to run di hard part dey feel like say you no sabi anything. So most people go start from top every time, get warm and satisfying ten minutes, and reach di section wey dem dey quietly dodge, but by that time clock don finish.
Di correction no big, e go dey small uncomfortable, but e go pay for itself inside one session. Start from where you dey fear to start. Give di hard part your best minutes, talk am loud, full speed, before your attention finish. Di rest of your preparation don already dey carry itself.
Why I dey always practice di parts wey I don already sabi?
Because to repeat wetin already dey work dey feel like say you dey progress, and attention dey go where di reward dey. Rehearsal na reward system before e become schedule, so if you leave am alone, e go always drift go di comfortable middle every single time.
Second reason dey, and na di one wey get more use to know. To dey fluent dey feel like say you don master am. When one passage run smooth, you go get strong signal for inside wey tell you say you don learn am, and dat signal go still dey fire long time after di learning don actually stop. Di hard section go give you di opposite signal, so you go read di discomfort as proof say today no be di day for am.
E go also help make you sincere about wetin raw hours fit buy you. One meta-analysis wey cover every major field wey dem don study dis question find out say deliberate practice explain 26 percent of di difference for performance among people for games, 21 percent for music, and 18 percent for sports. Dat one real, but e no near all of am. Most of wetin remain dey sit for wetin you dey practice, no be how long you sidon there, and na dat half be di one wey you fit change dis afternoon. Two people put di same six hours dis week. One of dem spend five out of dat hours for di opening.
How I go find di part wey I dey always skip?
Record one full run and watch di clock instead of watching yourself. Di section wey you always reach when time don already finish, or wey you dey slide pass with private note say you go come back to am later, na di one be dat.
Three reliable signs dey, and most people get all three at once. One passage dey wey you never perform for full speed with nobody wey dey stop you. One question dey wey you don answer for your head plenty times but out loud you never talk am. And one moment dey wey you dey describe with word like get through, na di word people dey reach for when dem dey endure one section instead of performing am.
Then write di answer down as a place, no be feeling. Bars 46 to 58. Di third slide. Di part where I dey explain di pricing. Minute nine to minute eleven. A hard part wey get timestamp on top na piece of work wey get edge, and e go stop to leak enter how you dey feel about di whole performance. If e no get name, e go follow you waka di whole week, quietly make every other section feel like say e no finish reach how e suppose finish.
How I go actually rehearse di hard part?
Run dat section alone, out loud, full speed, three times straight, before you rehearse anything else. Out loud and full speed na di two conditions wey go turn read-through become real repetition, because both of dem dey use di same machinery wey you go dey use on di day.
Start cold. Di hard part go arrive di room when your voice half warm and your attention don already finish for di ten minutes wey come before am, so to run am fresh for top of session close pass to run am when e don warm up for end of session.
Then do am from memory with your notes close. To test yourself no be way to check wetin you know, na way to build am. For di experiment wey show dis point clean, students wey reread one passage remember pass wetin students wey test demself remember, five minutes after, but dem remember far less two days and one week later, even as dem still dey rate dia own memory higher di whole time. Closed notes go feel worse, dem go look worse for di day wey you dey practice, but na dem be di version wey go still dey there for di day wey matter.
Three clean runs, then stop and stand up. Four minutes, no be forty. Dis na daily job, no be heroic session, and to keep am short na di reason why you go still dey do am reach Thursday.
Wetin if di hard part na question somebody fit ask?
Write down di three questions wey you least wan hear and answer each one out loud for under forty seconds. Hostile question na section of your performance. E just be section wey another person dey start.
Most people dey prepare answers for dia head and dem no dey ever talk am, wey leave di first spoken version to happen for di room. Dat one expensive, because to compose sentence when load dey your body na di thing wey go first break when pressure reach.
Keep di answers short. Forty seconds go force you to decide wetin di real reply be, and short answer wey you deliver calmly go show say you sabi di subject well well, for way wey long answer no fit ever do. You no dey memorize script. You just dey make sure say di first time your mouth go form dat sentence, e no be di moment wey matter.
And if you no fit answer one out of di three, you don find something wey better pass rehearsal problem. You don find gap for di work itself, and days still dey for clock to close am, wey be di cheapest moment wey you go ever get to close am.
How I go stop di hard part from feeling different on di day?
Rehearse am under small pressure wey dey close to wetin you go actually meet: one person dey watch, phone dey record, you dey stand, no restart allowed. Skill wey dem don only ever perform for comfortable condition na skill wey you never test.
Research wey dem do on how people dey choke dey point to di same mechanism from another side. Under pressure, one performer wey don practice well go start to supervise movements wey don already turn automatic, and na di supervision dey break dem. Di useful detail na wetin fix am for those experiments: golfers wey train while people dey watch dem or record dem stop to choke under pressure, but golfers wey train under one second task wey dey distract dem no stop. To dey observed while you dey practice na di thing wey transfer, because to dey observed na wetin dey happen for di real day.
One person dey enough. Ask your colleague for six minutes and give am one single instruction: no react, no rescue me, just be face. If nobody free, di camera for your phone go do most of di same work, because recording dey quietly remove di option to start again.
Di hard part na where di whole thing dey better
Everything wey you don dey avoid na also everything wey still dey available to you. Di opening don finish. Di middle fine well. Di two minutes wey you dey always glide over na di only place remain where dis performance fit improve for way wey anybody go notice, wey make dem be di minutes wey pay well well for your week.
Do am for few days and di shape of di day go change. To waka enter with di worst section already behind you na completely different experience from to waka enter dey hope say e no go show face. Dat one no be smaller ambition, na bigger one wey dem don remove guesswork comot. Put di name of di hard part for top of tomorrow list, so tomorrow version of you no go fit pretend say e no dey there.