Play it like you own it...

2009-06-07 Thread The Holstein Kid
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

Re: Play it like you own it...

2009-06-07 Thread Robin Gravina
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 -

Re: Play it like you own it...

2009-06-07 Thread Topher Gayle
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

Re: Greg Clarke

2009-06-07 Thread 14strings
I checked out the Soldier's Joy; that's chock full of good ideas Thanks for that link On Jun 5, 10:06 pm, mandoho...@comcast.net wrote: Check this out.  Greg is a great mandolin player (well, fiddle, banjo and guitar too)  He goes out and finds some really good tunes and is happy to share

Re: Play it like you own it...

2009-06-07 Thread Trey Young
In my experience of playing (about 90% of it being in a bar setting) I've found that as long as the over all groove/feel of the song stays strong and steady, small mistakes are usually only noticed by you and possibly a band member.  I suppose for some slower tempo and prettier stuff this may

Re: Greg Clarke

2009-06-07 Thread Petimar
Yes, Greg is quite a great player, my fav in the NW. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this