Knotted Up

Oy. If I could reach down inside my stomach I'd probably pull out something like this. I'm stressing, though I know I shouldn't. I'm learning a new song that we're going to perform and it just makes me nervous. I'm almost at the point where I can play it smoothly, but it hasn't sunk in yet. It's not at the point where I can play it without thinking, where it gets nice and deep into the muscles and tucked away in the chasms of the brain. The song has really pretty movement and it's in six time and thank goodness I don't have to solo. To complicate things, I'm busy. It's a good busy--teaching my taiko class, and then assisting at Drum Camp again this year, and lots of rehearsal and family coming up for the show. It's all good though. I'll get through this!