Scared to death!!!!!

You wimp.

Sorry, I meant to say, "Good luck and break a leg." Well...you know what I mean

 

Dont think so much. Just know your material cold and if you get too nervous, just kick your drummer in the nuts till the feeling passes.

Good Luck!!!


Mike

 

Just think about the good experience you'll be getting. After this, you'll be able to do any size show that you plan on playing. Besides, most of the crowd will be non-musicians so they won't know if you screw up (which you shouldn't, unless a beam falls on you), and they'll probably be impressed with what you CAN do.

 

I played my first gig not long ago, its nowhere as bad as you think it would be!! but mind you i played a total of 5 different notes through the whole song!!

but if you know your **** (and the song) youll do fine! best of luck

 

Don't worry about it; have fun. That's what it's all about.

 

If you know the material, you'll be fine. Have a good time! Have fun!! Let us know how it goes.

 

nothing to worry about. I had my first gig a little while ago and I was fine. As they aren't musicians in the crowd they wont know if you **** up so its cool. Just make sure you know ur stuff so you dont screw up and learn a basic scale incase you do.

The way my PA was set you couldnt hear me properly neway but hey, no worries. I got many girls cumin up to me afterwards and saying i was amazing (obviously not musicians) and i must say, even though they dont have a clue its still kinda cool getting all the praise for sumthing I love doing. (i think they were just very impressed with how quickly I could move my hands )

My main concern was that my hands would go numb and I wouldnt be able to move them properly so I planned to go to the sink and heat them up if that happened, but it didnt.

So yeah, play well and move those hands quick and youll definatly get rewarded. Afterall... Chicks dig musicians.

 

not quite Flea is right, I had my first gig a while back, wasn't nearly as bad as I thought.

Well, good luck!

 

You're lucky having the practise before the gig - use that time to work through parts of songs that you're a little uncomfortable with, but most importantly (IMO), relax, and use the time to stretch your fingers...last thing you want is to bodge a run or start cramping up because you weren't warmed up.

Before one of our gigs, at home I often play a couple of our more challenging songs at up to twice the speed, and sometimes at half the speed - twice the speed to get my fingers working and fluid, half speed to work on timing.

 

good luck, your gonna be just fine

 

Don't worry about it, first gigs are (almost?) always fun, even if you screw up.

And like everyone else said, relax, know your stuff, actually REHEARSE in rehearsal, and you should be fine.

 

You can never truly be prepared for your first live show. Each person is different. I was nearly throwing up with nerves but after loading the gear on stage and doing sound check. i was sorta ok. I knew the stuff backwards, we had rehearsed for a year so we had no excuses.

My dad commented and i agree, by about the 3rd song we were relaxed and into it. thats when your show starts. The first song and in our case the second, were a little tentative, but when u hear the applause and the shouts, you know they are for you.

good luck.



Merls

 

ONe Pointer - SMILE! It will make you feel 100% better, and everyone in the crowd will think you are just up there having fun. If you screw up, SMILE, they may even think you did it on purpose. If they see a worried look, they will be watching you like a hawk to see if you know what you are doing, so smile and have fun!!

The guys will be throwing themselves at you - maybe ...

One things for sure, when you leave the stage you will think it was the best experience of you life no matter how you played!

K.

 

Keith has good advice. A smile or even a grimace will make you at least, appear to be in command of what you are doing. That's a big part of stage presence.

Having a bit of the willies to some degree before going on is a good thing. It just means you want to perform well. Even the most seasoned, veteran, entertainers say they have some butterflies before they go on and say they should quit the business if they ever don't have a little bit of anxiety.

One trick I learned is to look just over the heads of the people in the back row. It looks like you are having eye contact with the audience but you can actually be looking at the back wall and focusing on your playing and your place in the music.

Bottomline, remember this - the audience WANTS TO LIKE YOU!!! If they didn't, they'd be elsewhere. The more times you do this, the easier it will get.

 

whats the song,ive never played in front of people so i dont have any adive except,practicepractice practice!!!

big k(enny)