Well we played last night and on the first song where Rebecca, our main
singer and fidller hit her fiddle, the bow broke after three notes.
Apparently it wasn't a good bow, but the disaster was major.
Anyway, that is the way to get rid of stage fright: I had to make up all her
intros and solos on
Dear Topher, Trey, Mark Dawn, thanks for the reinforcement, good
advice.
Music not notes.
And yes, I have had Mike ask me if I'm having fun. He must have seen
the look of concentration on my face trying to decipher something on
paper :-)
I'm still curious to know if the professionals feel
Holstein -
You just have to let it rip. Sit back, smile, and let the notes pour out.
You'll miss some, but you'll hit more of them. I've been playing in front
of folks for 30 of the 35 years I've been on this Earth and some days are
good and some days just aren't. The important thing is to
I concurand AMEN! Mike always asks..Are you having FUN? The whole
purpose. MUSIC-- not NOTES. AMEN.
2009/6/8 Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com
Holstein -
You just have to let it rip. Sit back, smile, and let the notes pour out.
You'll miss some, but you'll hit more of them. I've been
Howdy friends,
After reading Rek’s blog the other day, the EGO thing has been on my
mind. After a forced lay-off since Christmas, I got back on the horse
on Saturday night and entertained a paid crowd at a function.
I really tried to let-go and free myself of any self-consciousness,
but I did
Interested to hear answers - I've been trying to work on this, and thought
that the answer would be just to try to feel good -think the audience won't
care about how good you are if you don't transmit anything, and focus on
feeling confident. Unfortunately just tried to record a tatertube video -
Hi Holstein,
I am sure everybody has a different point of view on this. For one
thing, different performers are trying to accomplish different things.
For another, we have different attitudes towards what we're doing. And
finally, we all own operate different fingers and brains.
For me, my
. Any who, I'll stop my rambling there.
Trey
From: Topher Gayle surfns...@gmail.com
To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2009 12:42:47 PM
Subject: Re: Play it like you own it...
Hi Holstein,
I am sure everybody has a different point
