Dr. Jennifer Groh

Stuff is going to be happening that I'm not aware of.

And that when I come out of that, I'll probably know what I want at least the first couple of sentences to say.

Yeah, I have to.

I mean, I don't see any other way to do it.

But I think it's a little like, you know, you need rest and recovery for physical exercise.

And honestly, it's not like the brain and muscles are all that different from each other, right?

Being blocked can mean you don't know yet what needs to come next.

Well, I started off with flutes, you know, starting at fifth grade.

Now I play the banjo and I sing.

Yes, especially when performing.

There's a certain, like, I feel that the singing in particular can come out better in performance than it does in practice.

Not always, unfortunately.

The more technically challenging, you know, playing of the banjo is a little hard, you know, that the adrenaline helps with the singing and hurts with the banjo.

Let's put it that way.

Yeah.

Right, right, right.

Right.

I mean, it's just the shaking of the fingers that can be problematic.

But the other problem is, you know, from an attention music performance standpoint, I would much prefer to sing a given song only once in a rehearsal than to go over it more than once because I can't remember the words the second time through.

And I think it's this mental checklist of, did I already sing that?