[Matthew Rusk]

Hey Beckie, I had a read of this and thought a new article about student performance anxiety might be a good read – https://musicteacher.kinsta.cloud/performance-anxiety/ – do reach out to the author of that post as well as he might be able to give some good specific advice as to how to approach these types of situations moving forward as it is certainly more to do with the mental side of singing and performing than the actual physical side of singing.

[Matthew Rusk]

Eliza Jane Fyfe this is something you might know about:)

[Matthew Rusk]

Hi Eliza,

Thanks for the post (I have made a few edits for privacy). Often exchanges like this are less to do with a singular incident, for example, a lesson cancellation non-payment, but rather an underlying desire to perhaps stop lessons – might be financial, time-commitment, travel etc. But sometimes the reason given is an excuse to stop lessons, rather than the reason that caused the lessons to stop.

You are right to enforce your cancellation policy, however, it can cause students to drop away like this. You never know how people will react & from time to time giving some flexibility can help retain long-term students. Hopefully this helps a little.

Kind regards,

Matthew

[Matthew Rusk]

That is amazing, have you got any Youtube vidoes of you playing these modes? Sounds really cool – would love to hear it!

[Matthew Rusk]

Really cool James – what motivated you to write the book? I will check it out!