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Stage Fright

Posted by admin – August 24, 2010

How do you conquer stage fright? There are various ways that you could follow to prevent and conquer this common problem that is popular with musicians and performers alike. Here are some tips to fight it:

  1. Stress and anxieties can affect your voice, persona and performance in a very negative way.
  2. The best way to conquer stage fright is to be mentally and physically prepared . having known that you have practiced your songs and performance thoroughly will give you the confidence and resole to take the stage and flaunt your singing talent.
  3. Another way to overcome stage fright is to take your mind off it.
  4. Do affirm to yourself that stage fright is only a figment of your imagination which can be conquered and gotten rid of if you are determined enough to do it.
  5. Once you have don e it, you can do it over and over again and you will succeed in getting rid of stage fright forever.

So that’s it kids, conquer stage fright with these tips that comes from the heart. Fight that stopping factor and make your way to a blasting performance. Rock and roll everybody and stay clean.

TIPS ON SOUND CHECK AND MONITORS

Posted by admin – August 4, 2010

There are so many sources that result in blurry sound. It is almost always an amplified instrument.  Most of the time these comes from guitar amplifiers.  Another reason is because guitar players always turn up their amplifiers after the first song because they find it hard to hear themselves as they begin to play those first few chords. One way to get rid of this problem is to give the guitar player more of his guitar sound on the monitor mix. This way, he won’t be always turning up his amplifier because the sound that he hears would be loud enough for him. This way, you would be able to get a clear and legible vocal sound over everything else. The reason is that the guitar and vocal frequencies operate within similar ranges, but volume onstage; you will have plenty of gain before feedback with your vocal channel at the front of house.

So if you wanted your performance to sound good on stage, follow these simple tips and you can be sure, you would have fewer problems.  Just remember that a well balanced mix is much more favorable.  It makes the whole sound of your performance clean and clear.

MASTERING THE GUITAR

Posted by admin – August 2, 2010

As a beginner, I understand that sometimes you ask yourself or your teacher how long does it take or how long will it takes for you to master the guitar?  How long will you practice or work it out until you get to a certain level of playing which is very far from mediocre?  Actually, that question is very difficult to answer.  There is no actual an exact single answer to that question.  The answer varies from different persons in it all depends on how much effort and time a person is exerting on practicing the guitar.  Most probably, it depends largely on the attitude of the person towards his practicing.  It also depends on how disciplined, determined and focus a person is.  Bottom line is; it differs from person to person.  Let’s face it, some people are really fast learners and these people have the tendency to learn quicker than people will have ordinary learning speed or whenever you want to call it.  And also, the more exposed you are to music the faster you will learn.  This is some varied a proven and obvious fact that a person who is exposed to music daily is more likely to learn our master the guitar faster than a person who seldom listens to music.

How to Have a Successful Gig

Posted by admin – July 30, 2010

If you are a band and you are just starting out, it is very important that you know how to handle things like your gigs and promotion of your shows.  This is a very essential part of being in a band.  This could ensure you that there will be people showing up in your shows up.  Although it doesn’t matter how many people shows up in your show, it is always better to have lots supporters because that’s where you are going to build your fan base and it will be a lot of help for your band in the future.

Knowing how to promote your performances is a good thing.  If you have a manager, good for you because they will be the ones responsible for the promotion.  But if you don’t have a manager, knowing how to promote your performances yourselves is a necessity.  Promoting right now is not a very difficult job to do, in fact there are lots of ways that she could promote your band and the Internet such as; social networking sites, micro blogging sites, chat rooms, forums and many other methods and Internet places.  Promotion should be the first thing that you will do if you will have a gig.

HOW TO BECOME FAMOUS

Posted by admin – July 30, 2010

Of course I am talking about band popularity.  When you are in a band, your main goal is to promote yourself and to become popular.  This is how it works.  The more popular band as the more sales, sold out concerts and fans they would have.  So if you want to know how to do it, I think I have something for you something very essential and important.

If you don’t have a manager in your all independent, the first thing that you have to do is to promote your performances yourselves.  There are lots of ways to promote it, especially nowadays when the Internet is very much accessible to everyone.  You won’t have a problem promoting it, you just have to have the right determination.  On the night of the show and people are showing up, make sure that you could hold their attention until your concert is finished and he could raise the energy levels so they will not think that you are boring.  It would also help if you would create an A set list.  A set list of your good songs put together.  It would also help to observe some of the established groups and how they perform and you should learn from it.



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