wakka102 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 So yea, I get it really badly, My band played at school today and I knew our songs backwards and forwards, I played them really well in practice, but as soon as I got up there My hands were shaking like I had a fever! I get it everytime I perform too, I assumed it would go away after a few times (I'm in ensemble as well) but it doesnt, how do I go about calming my nerves so I can rock out to my full potential? there must be a way (besides alcohol or medications lol). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 You knocked out the only fun ones :( With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moopymitchell182 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Tell everyone to turn around. It has to be easier without everyone staring at you. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jemathonical Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Just don't worry about the audience. They don't want you to stuff up, they want you to succeed. Deep breathes. That's really all I can say ^Sir Jem 05-The Bunny Drinking Blog?^ Click it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unkn0wnwarrior Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 You just described the exact opposite of me...When I am alone I can't play anything, but when in front of people I am quite the musician. Just try to block out everybody watching. I somehow managed to do it, so you must have the same ability somewhere within you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intriguing Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 first thing to do is realise how awesome you are, makes everything better. if you're not awesome, just make yourself think you are. but anyway, getting over stage fright just comes with experience. the best thing to do would just be to get your band to play at a few really unimportant gigs to build your confidence. EDIT: sorry, didn't read the thing about how you've performed a few times. anyway, it's pretty weird that it hasn't gone away. i guess i've grown up performing music infornt of people, so it's nothing special. a question though, are you any good at speeches? you could try doing a public-speaking course, as i'm under the impression that performing in front of people and public-speaking are kind of connected. sorry if that's a crap idea, it just popped up in my mind. Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassin_696 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Perform in front of people as much as you can, if you want to be a performer, knowing the songs is only half of it. "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Concentrate on breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth, it should relax you to focus on the most important thing, the instrument. It's different to acting where you might have to play to an audience, as in develop a rapport, because as a classical musician you only have to sound good, but damn good. Only focus on the positives, like: "I know this song so well", "I've played it brilliantly many times" and so on, concentrating on the music and the music alone. If you think positive and focus, it will fly by. If you go out there all the time thinking, "Oh I remember last time, when I shook..." it will happen again and again. Be positive and trust your ability, and take heart that you're one of a select bunch who can perform the skill so well that people want to hear it :) This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiriyama Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Picture them in their underwear. Anyway just try relaxing, try breathing into your stomach, really helps me to relax. Denizen of Darkness| PSN= sworddude198 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladmoney Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 do something loud and obnoxious before you start playing (trip over something and play it off as a big joke), kinda shows that you are confortable and you will feel more confortable. Your nervous cause you dont want to emberess yourself, but the only way you will emberess yourself is if you are nervous, so dont be nervous. Visit my DeviantArt Page at http://vladmoney.deviantart.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragen Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 No matter how nervous you feel, act confident. The feeling will come eventually. Thanks Venomai for this super sig and Kwimbob for the awesome avatar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megakiller32 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Stare at the back of your room, and do what you gotta do. It works for me :D Or you can just turn around and say "What the hell are you guys looking at?! Bugger off!" Quit Runescape 30th May 2006.Thanks to Hawkxs for my signature :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFirenze Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Once you have one good gig you're confidence will by sky high. Also what Bubsa said about just feeling the music is SO important. Its what i do every time i play, just get lost in the music and everything else will disappear. Lvl 80 construction. Dragon Drops: 11 (4 Chains, 2 Axes, 1 Med, 2 Skirts, 1 Legs, 1 2h) God Wars Drops: 4 Zamorakian Spears, 1 Godsword Shard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch_Tyrant Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I know what ya mean Waka...The 1st time I ever played on stage was when I was playing guitar for like 20 or maybe 30 people. I was nervous about it weeks before I even had to do it haha. When the big day finally came I got up on stage, hands were shaking, both feet firmly together on the ground...And I played. After the show was over I felt great and the next few shows me and my band played I slowly started getting over it and started just having fun with it. Here's a tip to you on how not to get nervous... 1. Be confident in yourself and your performance 2. Just have fun Once you start moving up there you'll start to have a blast and forget the crowd is even there. And here's another tip I always use...If you're forced to look out into the crowd DO NOT look right into their eyes...Try and look just above there heads...It makes all the difference in the world. Hope you have a blast at future shows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladmoney Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 And here's another tip I always use...If you're forced to look out into the crowd DO NOT look right into their eyes...Try and look just above there heads...It makes all the difference in the world. Hope you have a blast at future shows... thats a very good tip! saves me on public speeches Visit my DeviantArt Page at http://vladmoney.deviantart.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbosnail1 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Picture them in their underwear. duude thats the last thing you wanna do, especially if theres some pretty hot looking groupies in the audience.. if you catch my drift ;-) Back playing Rs with some vigour for once, Visit my blog and check out what im up too.. http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=690785 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch_Tyrant Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Picture them in their underwear. duude thats the last thing you wanna do, especially if theres some pretty hot looking groupies in the audience.. if you catch my drift ;-) :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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