• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: SHY, SHY, SHY and ashamed.

I NEVER performed in public, reason TOO SHY.
How do you act and adapt you against that stupid problem?
I am convinced even the fact that I don't drink, that there is a big chance that I would drink.

I AM PROBABLY NOT THE ONLY SHY PERSON. Some bands asked me to play a few numbers and my answer was NO
WHAT IS NEEDED TO GAIN BACK CONTROL? TO TAKE THE BIG STEP, where you can play normal?

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2 Reply by cytania (edited by cytania 2008-11-17 15:38:12)

  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: SHY, SHY, SHY and ashamed.

Get in a group as a second guitar, just concentrate on playing good rhythmn/fills guitar. It'll be nerve-wracking but you won't be centre stage. Like any skill playing live takes practice.

You'll find your on-stage skills beginning when you start band rehearsals. You'll be nervous in front of fellow musicians. Don't go on stage until you've gotten comfortable with your band. It's a 'we're all in it together' thing. You'll go on stage eventually because you don't want to let them down.

Look out for guitar clubs/courses/folk groups where you can make your first steps with a small friendly crowd.

Get along to an open mike night. Make sure you have an easy to play crowd-pleaser, hopefully something humourous. Being live is a bit like stand-up comedy. You have to win the audience over by showing you are human. Nothing worse than a 'let me blind you with my shred' player, the audience love to see this type fail. Show you want to have a good-time and they'll forgive a bucket-load of mistakes.

Leave a solo guitar spot until you're really getting the hang of playing live.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'
  • From: North East England
  • Registered: 2008-10-26
  • Posts: 207

Re: SHY, SHY, SHY and ashamed.

Just playing in front of Family gets at me,grrrrr! soon as people are listening you`d think ia put on winter mittsi must be doomed to play to mesel in a cupboard lol;)

cool Dont Stop Kid Keep Rockin'  !! cool