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"effort to be a bit more gracious in accepting the kudos, while still being self-aware of the areas in which I needed improvement." Gracious is the phrase I use also. Sometimes it's easy to be too involved in technical details to get really tell how something is coming across. I developed the habit of never listening to the recording of a show till after I've lost the feeling it generated.Sometimes one that felt great sounds like shit,and I don't like the deflation of finding that out while I'm still high .Sometimes one that was really a struggle or had "importatnt mistakes ,has some quality that makes the mistakes irrelevent. There's much complex subjectivity ,and I must say I do at times think an audience is "wrong".But being gracious seems to me the best response. I can't do it with looping yet ,haven't begun to master the gear ,but with other sorts of performance. I like to not have to think about what I'm going to play or how,but instead put my attention on what it feels like in the space what I hear,what I feel resonating in the room,and put that through. A trick I've found really useful is to give pieces a definate ending -no drawn out crescendos ,noodlings ,or everyone trying to have the last word , period end of sentence . Then instead of fiddling with gear havinga drink, noodling over the next song,everyone puts full attention on listening to the audience resoponse,recieving whatever energy is there,and putting that into the next song.A feedback loop. <html><div></div></html>