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I don't know what to do on stage.

#61
Smile, like everyone has said.

Also, it's going to feel forced at first but a good way to get started is to just do something at every transition, verse, chorus, bridge, etc. Another good thing is to just start out with tapping your foot with "attitude." Instead of tapping your toe, tap with your heel. It makes your whole body move a bit more than just tapping your toe.
 
#64
I move around quite a bit, but the music moves me it is not choreographed in any way. I play with my teeth, the mike stand, beer bottles or posts holding up the ceiling. I'm off to the other side of the stage, standing on the drum kit, standing on the monitors, whatever for fun.
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#65
Marley's Ghost said:
Get a wireless and jump into the audience and dance with the chicks. Works for me. :cool: Unless your gigs are sausage fests. :eyebrow::scowl:
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^^THIS!!!

I`ve been doing this a lot lately on the college circuit. It`s a great chance to dance with some real hotties and I usually get to steal a kiss before I jump back on stage :smug::cool:

*edit* May I also suggest some courage in a bottle?
 
#66
I like to put a few beers or some cool buds in me beforehand. I get onstage and just completely lose myself to the feel of the music. Sometimes its high energy and Im rocking the eff out all over the place (though never too far from my mic stand). On occasion of gotten out of control and fell over (though kept on playing) or knocked things down, its all aprt of the 'letting loose'.
 
#69
I feel like a dork when I am up there. I never seem to smile cause I am too busy concentrating...occasionally a smile will come out..I bounce up and down (I do that when I sing too I noticed on video) or I rock a leg or something like that. Now when I am at home, I get down moving around...lol!
But the stage at this place isn't really big enough to really get down and move around and stuff
 
#73
the humanity said:
if you have a band full of wild people getting into it, one man just standing stock straight, just watching everything solemnly/scornfully can be really... badass!
especially in the middle of stage...

there's also just the old footstomp, the weaving around, even just copying the guitarist.
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I was actually kicked out of my first band because I didn't move around "hardcore" enough for them. :rolleyes: It was kinda tricky to be jumping around like the bass is a pogo stick while thrashing my head side to side AND following every note the guitarist was playing on my 4 strings. Moral: Don't allow your physical appearance on stage affect your playing ability. Oh, and don't join a group of 15 y/o scene kids. That's pretty important too.

Random suggestion: Learn and perfect the Moon Walk. No one does that any more, and if you can bust that out while the rest of the group dies down slightly for you to rip out a small bass solo in between measures, I'm sure it would get the whole crowd jumping. :D
 

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