Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Play Guitar for an Audience





These will be your cheat sheets until you have your repertoire memorized. The truth is, it will take quite a long time for you to memorize so many songs, so get yourself a music stand and some sheets of paper with your lyrics written on them. If you look on the internet you will find many people's definitions of popular songs, just choose some songs from a list that more or less corresponds to your style. You will, of course, include your favorite songs, and you will also need to draw upon a list of popular songs.

So you need to get yourself a list of say, forty songs. As a rough guide your songs are probably 3 to 4 minutes long, and you have a minute or two between songs. Start with a plan for a basic set lasting about three hours. So it's a whole new journey together from being able to play alone to being able to play guitar for an audience. You become aware of yourself in a totally different way and you can no longer play automatically the way you do when you are alone.

Once you are in a position where people are watching you play or sing, everything changes. If you want to play guitar for an audience it is vastly different from performing by yourself in your room.

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