September 17, 2020 You’re not alone if you feel anxious and nervous before performing in any capacity. Performance anxiety affects 70% of the population worldwide. Here are some strategies to manage your anxiety and have a great performance.
October 1, 2019 No matter what industry you work in or activity that you participate in, delivering high performance and effort on a consistent basis is very important. While all people know that they need to continue to perform well, it can be hard to keep up the effort at all times. While all people will get into a performance rut from time to time, there are four important things that you can do to get out of one.
Advice, Live Music tagged live gigs, live performances, performance rut, ruts January 4, 2019 July 11, 2018 Guest post by Patrick McGuire. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper
The thought of playing a show fraught with performance mistakes, sound problems, and an unengaged crowd is one that keeps musicians of all stripes awake at night. It makes perfect sense, too! After spending god knows much time, money, and personal sacrifice writing and creating great music, you feel a lot of pressure to deliver a flawless live show every time you hit the stage.
But here’s the rub: Things go wrong in live shows constantly, and the problems you’re likely to experience aren’t always predictable or preventable, nor are they abnormal in any way. Especially when you’re on the road playing night after night, with different sound in different rooms with different support acts and different audiences, it’s a miracle we’re even able to perform well at all!
Here are a few ways to get through shows where nothing seems to be going your way.
Advice, Live Music tagged Advice, DIY, Live, disaster, gig, live performances, show April 3, 2018 I had started writing some posts and giving advice on my social media pages, as my way of giving some advice regarding some of the things that I see and hear, both at shows, and on artists’ social media pages. It always seemed to be the same things, coming from “artists,” who excel in playing the blame game: making excuses for why they aren’t succeeding. So, I thought that I would try to be helpful, by calling artists out on their behaviors! It may not be popular, or politically correct, but if an artist can’t handle the truth and some constructive criticism, then they are in the completely WRONG business.