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Re: slight OT: scary situation: 1st live performance at an openmic....
Way to go Scott!! Just keep playing out, it becomes easier.
Good move in not introducing the looping first time around. THis past
Saturday
I had a situation where my cool mellow percussive looping that was
supposed to
kick into reverse to lead into the next song took quite a different turn
when
the sound person made an on the fly tweak to the monitors which ended
up with a
bass rumble that got picked up by my in-guitar mic and thus was
unceremoniously
placed into the loop. What started out mellow ended up sounding very
hendrix-esque and I had to totally change the arrangement so I could
glide into
the second song more cleanly. People thought it was cool and different and
didn't even realize how much more I was improvising than I intended to.
Was an
interesting experience and definitely what makes playing live looping
interesting and fun. Buuut...If that had been my first time out ever with
a
looper and something like that happened 3 minutes into a song, I may have
been
a wee bit more intimidated the next time out.;-)
Rock on Brother!!
~peace~
Michael
www.michaelplishka.com
www.myspace.com/michaelplishka
Quoting scott hansen <evanpeewee@yahoo.com>:
> well, inspired by all the posts of people who talked about their live
> performance over
> the last 5 yrs (yes, it took me 5 yrs), i decided to try an open mic
> night and attempt to play a few of my "singer-songwriter/folk" songs
> (sorry for slight OT).
> even though i teach college art (drawing/pntg/art apprec) and have
> to lecture, i would not say that i'm a real outgoing individual, was
> very shy during most of my public school days, hated speeches in
> college...but then for some strange reason back in '98 started
> writing songs, etc....around 01-02 thought about trying to play them
> live, and practiced them and recorded them (ad infinitum, working on
> recording etc-endless problems), finally decided after so many yrs of
> worrying, fear,to just bite the bullet. that happened monday nite,
> 4-10 at the open mic at the mill restaurant in iowa city. i was
> nervous, but remembered being more nervous for speeches in college. i
> had practiced my stuff over the last 2 weeks, got my rudimentary
> tools together.....
> i even debated doing a bit of looping, brought my new digitech
> digitdelay, but in the end worried about all other things and being
> my 1st time, decided to not hook it up. played my 8 songs in 25
> minutes, and thought i did ok-i figured everyone there would be too
> into their bar thing so no pressure. i definately learned a lot of
> things in that 25 min, like boy those 2 spot lights are HOT, and
> BRING WATER (my throat was killing me after the 3rd song). my wife
> asked me if i could tell people were watching/listening, and i would
> say: i don't know, i really couldn't see due to the spot lights (it
> is very weird) and i really couldn't hear what my guitar or voice
> sounded like due to my inexperience w/ monitors. the girl who played
> after me (who is on a national tour for an album) asked for the voice
> to be punched up in the monitors, and who i should add was very good.
> i should say that for the most part my tools served me well. my 100$
> hohner guitar stayed in tune and performed
> great (i had the cheapest guitar there by far), the seymour duncan
> single coil woody pu didn't do great, there was some hum, but the
> guitar did sound pretty good. since i have songs in 2 different
> tunings and was afraid of tuning onstage i brought my parker nitefly
> for the standard tuning stuff w/ its piezo (acoustic like sounds), i
> couldn't really hear it from the stage, and i made some mistakes of
> not playing it as much as i should have, and 9's are probably too
> thin for live stuff-strumming wise (i hit some klunkers). i listened
> to the live recording the guy who organizes the event made yesterday,
> and thought i sounded ok. the one thing i was proud of was i didn't
> forget any lyrics to any of my songs. could tell 1/2 way through i
> needed water. my timing was a bit rushed (& i will say my timing is
> for sh*t), but overall, i did ok, survived, and no one died.....sorry
> for the long post....next time i do it, i will stick w/ my original
> intent and when i change tunings,
> will do a li'l loop thing to fill air/space...
> just wanted to thank all for their live post reports that inspired
>me.....
> s---
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