Practicing at Home vs. Playing for Someone: Why You Fall Apart (and the Fix) ep.113
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Dropped your pick inside your guitar again? In this RGS Live session, I show the simplest way to get it out, and a few ways to keep it from happening in the first place. I also cover small hands and barre chords, easier chord options for arthritis, remembering what you’ve learned, improving rhythm, navigating above the 12th fret, changing keys, handling performance nerves, and a few music theory and tab questions.
I wasn’t able to answer the question about how to write guitar harmonics using tablature, but I did some research and created a short blog post.
Concerning performing for others, I was given some sound advice. When we practice, we often use some more advanced techniques, but when playing for others, just keep it simple. Only if the people listening are professional musicians, no one is going to notice if you left out some bass runs or some fancy chord voicings.
So very informative. I am one of those who needed to hear about performance. I don’t even want to be heard practicing. As soon as my husband walks by I forget where I’m at and I think, ‘ He’s probably so sick of listening to things over and over. He must think I am not making progress.’ Then I lose confidence. I’m going to concentrate on changing this. If I play like I’m performing on purpose, maybe my attitude will change and I can drop the dread and nerves. This is an old habit for me since I was in high school and didn’t want my music teacher dad to hear me for fear of being corrected!
Concerning performing for others, I was given some sound advice. When we practice, we often use some more advanced techniques, but when playing for others, just keep it simple. Only if the people listening are professional musicians, no one is going to notice if you left out some bass runs or some fancy chord voicings.
So very informative. I am one of those who needed to hear about performance. I don’t even want to be heard practicing. As soon as my husband walks by I forget where I’m at and I think, ‘ He’s probably so sick of listening to things over and over. He must think I am not making progress.’ Then I lose confidence. I’m going to concentrate on changing this. If I play like I’m performing on purpose, maybe my attitude will change and I can drop the dread and nerves. This is an old habit for me since I was in high school and didn’t want my music teacher dad to hear me for fear of being corrected!