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Printableotan said: luv4u said: Moved to org artist community forum - luv4u
Actually avoid alchohol if you're new to this. It'll only make you more nervous and a lot more sloppy. As stupid as it sounds, (and it REALLY still sounds stupid), sunglasses helped me a lot - knowing that I could look at people and they didn't know if I was looking at them, for some reason, just makes it a lot easier to perform. It's SO stupid putting them on when I walk onstage, and I feel like a Blues Brothers wannabee for about 10 seconds until I start doing my thing, and then it's all just part of the show. Another good one is to isolate a single player in the place and play to them... whether it's someone you know or not, just over-animate. Are you doing a play? Or just playing in a band? you can do that in a band, but obviously, saying your lines to a person in the crowd... that wont work. It's all therapy. Just look at it like that. You're up there to do your thing, and those people are there to see what you're going to do. If they dont like it, they wont stone you, they'll leave. Okay, I HAVE been hit by a rock a couple times... SORRY MAN TO GRAB YOUR WHOLE SPIEL, BUT I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE SAID.(AINT BEEN HIT WITH A ROCK YET!) S'POSE IT'LL COME.ALL I CAN ADD IS THAT IF YOU KNOW YOUR STUFF, AND I'M JUST THE GUITARIST, I TRY NOT 2 OFFEND BY SINGING  , THAT'S 90% OF THE DEAL. BUT I MEAN "KNOW YOUR STUFF", SO IT'S UNCONSCIOUS.NO THINKING, TOTALLY UNCONSCIOUS SO IT JUST HAPPENS.LOOK AT A BAND MEMBER, GET IN THE GROOVE, HEAR THE DRUMMER, HE'S LEADING THE WHOLE DEAL, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AND TO MY GREAT SURPRISE ,IF YOU DO MUCK UP , A HUGE HOLE DONT OPEN UP AND SWALLOW U, MOST PEOPLE DONT EVEN NOTICE ! IT'S ACTUALLY SO LIBERATING TO EXPERIENCE A MINOR 'HICCUP', BREAKS THE ICE SO TO SAY, NOT YOU !  ~PClinuxOS~  I've been here longer than I care to remember, ... I drop in from time to time, ...  | |
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