brian_primrose
05-21-2014, 07:04 AM
Follow the steps below, and results are just about guaranteed.
1) After less than a year, for your first ever outing playing in front of other people, agree to be the sole accompanist for your friend, a singer/quitar player.
2) In a competition, with an OK cash prize.
3) Playing a striped down country song, with no significant repeats, and about as many places to hide errors in note choice, length, or loudness as the surface of a frozen lake.
4) Let yourself get so nervous that it takes three tries to get you hands to work at the sound ckeck.
5) Forget the maxim "trust but verify" when the sound guy says "don't worry about the settings, no one else today is using the setup". This will result in no sound going through the stage monitors untill the SG runs up, cousing some distraction.
6) Survive the error caused by #5, but in relaxing, get distracted the M.C who is enthusiastically lip syncing the song in the wings, thus missing the key change in the last verse.
Needless to say, my friend did not win. He does stilll talk to me though, to my surprise.
At least, the next time can not be worse.
May your first times be much, much, better.
Brian
1) After less than a year, for your first ever outing playing in front of other people, agree to be the sole accompanist for your friend, a singer/quitar player.
2) In a competition, with an OK cash prize.
3) Playing a striped down country song, with no significant repeats, and about as many places to hide errors in note choice, length, or loudness as the surface of a frozen lake.
4) Let yourself get so nervous that it takes three tries to get you hands to work at the sound ckeck.
5) Forget the maxim "trust but verify" when the sound guy says "don't worry about the settings, no one else today is using the setup". This will result in no sound going through the stage monitors untill the SG runs up, cousing some distraction.
6) Survive the error caused by #5, but in relaxing, get distracted the M.C who is enthusiastically lip syncing the song in the wings, thus missing the key change in the last verse.
Needless to say, my friend did not win. He does stilll talk to me though, to my surprise.
At least, the next time can not be worse.
May your first times be much, much, better.
Brian