These are all great tips for dealing with performance fatigue in general, but does anybody out there have any specific hints for specific problems? For instance, I've finally figured out how to breathe and play fast stuff on the recorder at the same time but I have yet to be able to play even one fast song (like Finnegan's Wake) all the way through on the bodhran without my right arm absoloutely collapsing, and twitching with pain and exhaustion. It feels like I was lifting a twenty pound weight without stopping. Oddly, my hand never hurts, and I never have problems with breathing or anything else. Just my arm.

Anybody else experienced this? how did you deal with it?

Whitewater