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06-06-2002, 02:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: pennsylvania usa | | | 1st time playin in front of people, help me out!
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OK, so basically im in middle school, and in a band. We are playing for our schools talent show, and the song we are doing is 96 quite bitter beings by cky. Not my choice, but whatever, thats beside the point. My point is that we know the song good, but, I am going to play in my first concert i guess, ever. But its going to be in front of over one thousand teachers and students. We trying to keep our energy level up, even if we do look really stupid on stage, but other than that are there any suggestions for me? Thanks. |
06-06-2002, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Grayson, GA | | 1. Have fun, try to look like you enjoy it, your audience will respond more readily than if you look like you could care less about being there.
2. Don't be a "shoe-gazer", try to make eye contact with the folks on the last row every once in a while.
3. Not to overstate the obvious, but even in a high energy thrash/metal/head-bangin'/butt-kickin'/blizzard-o-notes song, DYNAMICS seperate the "they were ok" from the "wow, those guys were really good".
4. Oh yeah, don't forget to have fun.
I'll always remember that first gig...and the older I get, the more I forget how bad we really were! 
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06-06-2002, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Florida East Coast | | | Great advice JohnL!
Make sure everyone feels that they are sharing the experience. Remember music is not only for the musicians in the band. |
06-06-2002, 03:55 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The land of chicken fried funk | | | If you have recordings of the songs you will be doing;
- Play any of those songs,
- Just stop/pause it at any random point
- See if you can continue playing your bass lines even though the recording isn't playing
The reason I'm suggesting this is that when you aren't used to larger audiences, your concentration will almost always be distracted. Then you snap out of it and find you are desperately trying to find your place back into the song.
Being able to play a song only from the beginning won't serve you well.
If you can pick up exactly where you should be at any point in the song, your confidence will be much greater.
Also, don't look into the audience if that distracts you. An old trick pro speakers use is to look just above the heads of the last row. You look like you're making eye contact with the audience but you're not.
Best of luck!
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06-13-2002, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hickam Hawaii | | Just have fun with it man...dont worry about it...I know you're gonna but really...as soon as you show up to set up...you'll feel fine...just look alive and make sure you know what your doing
good luck
let us know how it goes |
06-13-2002, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: your backyard spying on you | | | dont worry about it. you'll be nervous as hell untill you get on stage and start playing. then, about 30 seconds later you probably wont even notice the audience. and dont just stand still and play, then you like a goon...
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06-13-2002, 11:34 PM
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06-13-2002, 11:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | My only advice: make sure there is adaquate light to see the fretboard by. This has been a problem for some of us in the past...
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06-14-2002, 09:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN, USA | | | Have fun with it! You'll only have one "first gig". You will be surprised at how you will naturally step up and do it. It's a rush! |
06-25-2002, 12:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Lee's Summit:MO | | | I played my first "gig" back in February. Its on tape. I had fun with it. I know my parts. That makes it easy. God bless you.
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06-25-2002, 05:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: London, UK | | | Everyone will love you if:
1)You play the song well (you say you know the song so you're good on that one)
2)You "get into" it.........what i mean is; crowd interaction is good BUT If you give it everything, be yourself, do what you have to do to play well, show your enjoyment of the situation, then everyone will love it. Crowd interaction can come across as arrogant, so be yourelves
Everyone loves musicians who are caught up with playing good music......a good attitude to have is "we're gonna rock this for us" and if you have this you'll find that you "rock" it for everyone else too!!
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06-25-2002, 12:46 PM
| | | | EVERYONE knows that song from Jackass or one of the Tony Hawk games,so everyone will enjoy it.I've never played a gig so i dont have any advice.hehe |
06-27-2002, 09:00 PM
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Just be yourself, do it for yourself, enjoy it. That will translate to your audience. If disaster strikes ( and it may well. I tripped over a cord and damn near pulled my amp over in front of my high school peers),embrace it!! Laugh it off and keep going. Nothing kills an audiences buzz quicker than a p($$ed off musician. Have a good time and they'll have a good time.
Good luck
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06-30-2002, 09:16 AM
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My only advice: make sure there is adaquate light to see the fretboard by. This has been a problem for some of us in the past... | this is very true... Most places I play, they don't have the lights high enough for me so i could never see my fretboard.... I don't even look at my fretboard much any more though so I guess i don't mind it much
just have fun man, no one will ever play an exactly perfect show.. but do the best you can.
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06-30-2002, 06:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Franktown, CO, USA | | | The first (and only) time i played a gig I played like thunderfingers for the first two songs (unintentionally), I think the audience actually dug it, so that worked out, but after a couple songs you'll realize that you're a band, and so long as you dont seriously screw up people are going to love you because its a live show and no one hates a live show! So eventually you'll get relaxed and start to groove, if you really know you can play the song well and without any trouble you could pick up a few concert dvd/vcd's and study the bassist's moves (If you like hard rock definetly get the last supper by black sabbath, geezer is BAD in there). Try to dress in a dressy casual way, no shoes, dress shirt but keep it untucked and the cuffs unbuttoned, and just some basic jeans, half the show is looking cool.
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07-04-2002, 04:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | You'll be nervous i can assure you, the best advie is don't show the mistakes. My drummer is still a wreck when it comes to gigs, sometimes plays 5 verses, or misses a chorus etc. Rather than turning around going "you bloody idiot!" or snapping aorund and shaking your head, or rolling your eyes, I just walk around on the stage and then in that movement turn to the drummer so my back is to the audience and go "Oi!" and he mouths "F***!!" and corrects. You have to know the song though, the guitarist and i just keep playing and when the drummer changes we change too.
But yeah have fun. How many songs are you doing? If its just the one thats harder. Even our first song is known as the "warm up song" because it settles the nerves, then the rest of the set you enjoy. Interact with the crowd etc.
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07-17-2002, 09:00 PM
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Imagine the audiance in underwear ....
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07-18-2002, 11:50 AM
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Drink some beers &
Imagine the audiance in underwear .... | he said he was in middle school. lol
good luck man. tell us how it goes |
07-19-2002, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Charleroi, Belgium | | Quote: Originally posted by pereek
he said he was in middle school. lol
| What's the matter, I drink beer since my .....
I can't remember it's too far .... I remember having beer in school restaurant when I was 5 ...
I didn"t become Barney Gumble at all !
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07-22-2002, 01:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Salem, Oregon | | | my whole take on performing is that I want to let people know I love playing...performing. It's not about being "superstar" and jumping off my amps...it's about expressing what I do. Kinda like painting.
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