Norio wrote:
Thanks peeps ?
Keira, that's my mission, to join you guys on open mic night soon. It sounds like lots of fun but I'll need to practise lots before I'll be able to play in front of people!
Any critique for me? What can I improve on?
Personally I want to focus my next recording on getting a sexy chord progression going and then playing lead that fits in neatly with the chords. But it's a real struggle for me to focus on chords. I start noodling very quickly ?
Norio as a pro instrumental musician.... (solo guitarist) the only advice (without actually seeing you play) is if you want to keep the crowds attention is play funky/catchy grooves....remember even a slow ballad can groove...... and play some catchy melodies.... even Steve Vai plays tunes you can sing the 'head" of ....
and playing live is just a deep end plunge.... but believe me it's not a prob .... just like riding a bicycle the more you do it the better you become at it.... and yeah we all fall off the bike when we learn and have bad nights when things go wrong.... the mindset is to not worry about it.... go back to the wood shed and just work at it some more then try again...the next week/show
i teach my students performance skills ... and the main one is just have fun...forget it's a show... i mean playing open mic at Jonathan's will not be anything scary heheheh it's not the Albert hall.... so hope to see you there next week... come and try it ... you have nothing to lose .... and by your demo it sounds like you playing in key ... so like nike says "just do it" ........
and my favourite saying is don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today...... cos you might just like it and you can do it again tomorrow.....
peace and light
Keira
