Well.....I done loads of acoustic gig so how about the time I had everyone checking leads, DI boxes, desk inputs, only to find out the batteries are in backwards !
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i always record myself at open mics using a boss micro so i can revel/cringe/learn from my performance
I haven't yet re-visited this or played solo live again, to try to get this particular monkey off my back. I can play Angie easily now, but when I do play it again I'm going to go into an amp rather than the PA so I can hear it. I'm going to be as nervous as hell after last time.
I'm also dusting off some classical stuff. It is a slow process and bit of a long term project. What I'm hoping to get together is a reasonable amount of instrumental acoustic stuff, mixed between classical and folky/raggy/bluesy stuff (I really am a tuneless bastard when it comes to singing) and then start gigging it - sort of wine bar type stuff perhaps.
However, at the moment tho the band is taking priority as it looks like our first gig might be looming in April so it all fingers to fretboards learning and rehearsing pop/rock stuff (which of course is far easier!)
I have quite bad nerves and I think an acoustic open mic style thing is probably a very hard thing to do. Playing in a loud rock band I think would be much easier. It just feels a lot safer with all that other noise going on around you. I still hate having to play intros etc. when nobody else is playing. I think what you did was jumping in at the deep end and you should be really proud of yourself to have done it!
We used to play Chasing Cars mid-way through the set and one gig the singer decided at the very last second (as he was introducing the band) to play it first. It's an incredibly easy thing to play but as I was playing the intro I was suddenly very aware that I was the only person playing and everyone was looking at me and I started to stumble over it. Managed to cover ok, but I hate playing that song now.
Originally Posted by Newton Faulkner
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......"Bertie is pretty much a zen master..................."
the wine bar in keynsham high street. you would be most welcome - April 27th to be confirmed for sure but we can all make the date and they seem OK about it.
I was v nervous. I thought I would be OK as the first thing I ever performed (about 3 years ago now) was some classical stuff for about 15-20 minutes at my great grandmother's birthday in front of about 30 people - and that went OK except that I forgot a section of Cavatina.
So slightly cockily I thought I'd be Ok. just proves what a knob I am sometimes.
Someone wrote that nerves can reduce your playing by 10% to 90%. Yesterday it was a high 90% for me as I was trying out an Orange Micro Terror amp and attempting to select a speaker that went well with it. The shop guitar was a Fender Tele with humbuckers and a slightly clubby neck. The assistant took the guitar away to tune it for me. However he did it, it sounded way out to me, took me ten minutes to get it sounding in tune. Then I forgot how to play. Not that I ever was all that great anyway but what little ability I thought I had, vanished into thin air. I stumbled through the intro of 'New Kid in town' [The Eagles], then the intro of San Quentin [Johnny Cash] and finally the intro to 'More than a feeling' [Boston]. I could not think of anything else. Totally blank. Problem was that I had to repeat the three intros three additional times as I was unhappy with the sound and various cabs were tried out. It is a humbling experience to realise that after thirty five years messing about with guitars that I can play almost nothing at all. Sorry for the thread hijack nickp but I just had to share this with someone who understands. Today at home in my music room it was business as usual. My attempts at playing something sounded amateurish but passible. What happened yesterday?????
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Worst mistake I've ever seen at a gig wasn't me, but a mate of mine.
We were covering 'Gay Bar' acoustically, which for those in the know you can break down to being a D chord and a C chord. That's all there is to the song.
After his solo, my buddy managed to drop back into Eb and Db.
Absolute genius.
I'm back and better than ever.
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