Nice! I first heard from Noa Kageyama, stressing that musicians never practice how to perform and test under performing conditions. Great to see the performance/sport psychology findings making their way into music domain. Thank you for the scientific tips! ❤
Nice to see the snippet of you 'performing' Mark - I enjoyed it even though it was brief. Have you got any more videos of you playing the guitar on TH-cam, I'd love to see them, it would be inspirational for me.
I haven't got any up myself I'm afraid. A couple of other people have some videos up from random performances a while back. They should come up if you search for my name. Or try looking for Giulio Lampronti and Lara Rosales's videos.
Excellent topic! I have been thinking I’d do that very thing with my practice and have begun arranging parts of my practice sections where they sound good following each other. Thanks for your video as I’m jumping in with both feet!
Hey Mark! I'm enrolled in "unlock your performance" and going slowly through at a pace I can apply all the wonderful insights, tips and challenges in accordance with my personal time available. I wanted to add a small but perhaps helpful tid bit about simulating performance context. When I'm ready to "performance practice" (and have done this in the past, nice to have a name to it) I open my windows to give me the feeling that others are listening like an audience. It really helps me work on any nervousness and also push me to not stop but keep playing through the song or set. I imagine they are smiling and singing or dancing along. Imagination is a wonderful tool, you think? I'm heading over to your recording yourself video now. Blessings! RockerEl
Yup. I love this. I've talked occasionally in the past about how (when I lived on the ground floor in front of a relatively busy street) I would practice in the front window facing out. Just to get used to the idea that people could definitely see me.
This video hits the nail on the head. Not only for solo performances, but band situations also. So many times we as a band run through the sets but never "perform" them at rehearsal. This is difficult though. It means "showing off" a little in front of no-one but the other band members which can be awkward to get past. I guess actors would have similar issues in their industry, performing in front of their peers. Before video, we used mirrors to perform in front of.........which also felt awkward. But this is what we need to get over and comfortable with. JMO folks.
I just want to learn how to perform consistently. I know if I get three takes at a song of mine I can nail it. I just want everything to sound near perfect first try. Idk how to simulate playing on a stage. Should I truly just practice my set straight through without skips and see how it goes? I record every take of me and the band at rehearsal, but should I be pushing them to essentially just start practicing the set? I want to get to the point where we are just showing up and running through the set.
Do you mean just video, or do you include audio. There can be significant benefits in trying to record audio, for example using a DAW, and setting it to record over and over in a loop. Then one can identify problems quite quickly - by listening to several different versions - multiple takes. Once can home in quite quickly on things which don't go so well in each take. Video recording is something slightly different. I would suggest doing audio recordings first, then leaving video to before a concert or live performance.
Frankly, either is good. Most musicians don't record themselves at all. Anything is an improvement on that!
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This is great, thank You very much! I would like to ask a question: now that the pandemic is going on, i'm the only one who practices in my school. The problem is that i can't invite anybody over to listen to me, so i usually use only a phone camera for that, even though it doesn't affect my nerves at all. Also, i'm a percussionist, so i can't bring my massive marimba into another room for different conditions, so i simply place it differently in the practice room. Is there something You can suggest me to recreate a performance situation better in these conditions, or should i just wait untill the pandemic calms down a bit? Thank You very much in advance!
Hi Augustas. Great that you're thinking this way. The trick is to focus on what you CAN do rather than what you can't. So maybe you're looking at things like schedule and repertoire. You could pick an exact set time when you have to start "performing". You could stop yourself from having a warmup beforehand,. Or warm up, then have 30 minutes break, then start straight into the performance. Or something like that. You could play several pieces back to back without stopping. I'm sure you can think of many more ideas. One other thing to try: what happens if, before you record yourself, you promise to send the video to someone else? Does that make you more nervous than just recording yourself?
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@@PlayInTheZone Thank you ennormously for the tips! I was thinking, does performing an excerpt of a piece work? Can it be helpful when learning new material?
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Nice! I first heard from Noa Kageyama, stressing that musicians never practice how to perform and test under performing conditions.
Great to see the performance/sport psychology findings making their way into music domain. Thank you for the scientific tips! ❤
Nice to see the snippet of you 'performing' Mark - I enjoyed it even though it was brief. Have you got any more videos of you playing the guitar on TH-cam, I'd love to see them, it would be inspirational for me.
I haven't got any up myself I'm afraid. A couple of other people have some videos up from random performances a while back. They should come up if you search for my name. Or try looking for Giulio Lampronti and Lara Rosales's videos.
Excellent topic! I have been thinking I’d do that very thing with my practice and have begun arranging parts of my practice sections where they sound good following each other. Thanks for your video as I’m jumping in with both feet!
Great to hear this, Ross. I think you'll find it really helpful.
Hey Mark! I'm enrolled in "unlock your performance" and going slowly through at a pace I can apply all the wonderful insights, tips and challenges in accordance with my personal time available. I wanted to add a small but perhaps helpful tid bit about simulating performance context. When I'm ready to "performance practice" (and have done this in the past, nice to have a name to it) I open my windows to give me the feeling that others are listening like an audience. It really helps me work on any nervousness and also push me to not stop but keep playing through the song or set. I imagine they are smiling and singing or dancing along. Imagination is a wonderful tool, you think? I'm heading over to your recording yourself video now. Blessings! RockerEl
Yup. I love this. I've talked occasionally in the past about how (when I lived on the ground floor in front of a relatively busy street) I would practice in the front window facing out. Just to get used to the idea that people could definitely see me.
Honestly all your videos that I’ve seen has been super helpful, even though I make electronic music. Thank you for making these!!
Glad you like them!
This video hits the nail on the head. Not only for solo performances, but band situations also. So many times we as a band run through the sets but never "perform" them at rehearsal. This is difficult though. It means "showing off" a little in front of no-one but the other band members which can be awkward to get past. I guess actors would have similar issues in their industry, performing in front of their peers. Before video, we used mirrors to perform in front of.........which also felt awkward. But this is what we need to get over and comfortable with. JMO folks.
Absolutely, Robert. You need to push through some discomfort - otherwise it's going to be just as uncomfortable when you're doing it for real...
Great advice, follows the principle of making making training for combat as much like the real thing as possible. Fewer surprises is better :)
Tim O
Yup. It's tried and tested advice for a reason. The problem is that it's all too easy to avoid putting it into practice...
Mark, this is so good! Thank you!
Glad you liked it, Dawna!
I just want to learn how to perform consistently. I know if I get three takes at a song of mine I can nail it. I just want everything to sound near perfect first try.
Idk how to simulate playing on a stage. Should I truly just practice my set straight through without skips and see how it goes?
I record every take of me and the band at rehearsal, but should I be pushing them to essentially just start practicing the set? I want to get to the point where we are just showing up and running through the set.
Do you mean just video, or do you include audio. There can be significant benefits in trying to record audio, for example using a DAW, and setting it to record over and over in a loop. Then one can identify problems quite quickly - by listening to several different versions - multiple takes. Once can home in quite quickly on things which don't go so well in each take. Video recording is something slightly different. I would suggest doing audio recordings first, then leaving video to before a concert or live performance.
Frankly, either is good. Most musicians don't record themselves at all. Anything is an improvement on that!
This is great, thank You very much! I would like to ask a question: now that the pandemic is going on, i'm the only one who practices in my school. The problem is that i can't invite anybody over to listen to me, so i usually use only a phone camera for that, even though it doesn't affect my nerves at all. Also, i'm a percussionist, so i can't bring my massive marimba into another room for different conditions, so i simply place it differently in the practice room. Is there something You can suggest me to recreate a performance situation better in these conditions, or should i just wait untill the pandemic calms down a bit? Thank You very much in advance!
Hi Augustas. Great that you're thinking this way. The trick is to focus on what you CAN do rather than what you can't. So maybe you're looking at things like schedule and repertoire. You could pick an exact set time when you have to start "performing". You could stop yourself from having a warmup beforehand,. Or warm up, then have 30 minutes break, then start straight into the performance. Or something like that. You could play several pieces back to back without stopping. I'm sure you can think of many more ideas.
One other thing to try: what happens if, before you record yourself, you promise to send the video to someone else? Does that make you more nervous than just recording yourself?
@@PlayInTheZone Thank you ennormously for the tips! I was thinking, does performing an excerpt of a piece work? Can it be helpful when learning new material?