Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Now, 12 advices for a stage success!
1. Remember, you are at stage for the spectators in the first place, that is why remember about them when performing, do your best to bring your music to them. You’ll have an opportunity to perform for yourself at rehearsals.
2. Prepare yourself for performance very carefully – both your songs and appearance should be well thought over. You should always follow the topic of a concert. E.g., it is not advisable to perform something cheerful at a funeral event.
3. Rehearse your part and learn it by heart. Notes, chords and other technical aspects should be as good as automatic, and in the course of performance, you should concentrate on emotional aspect.
4. Keep communicating with the audience, show spectators, you are performing for them! No one likes sleepy and insensitive musicians, who come out just to show a cool trick and leave. Moreover, nobody remembers them!
5. Feel the mood of the audience and try to be in tune, or handle it. If spectators had cheered up in the course of performance of the previous band, they will dance during your performance, too, if you take the trouble to adjust your program. If spectators are tired, cheer them up with songs and joyous cues.
6. Always look at spectators. Expression of a person allows deciphering his/her attitude to your performance – well seen from the stage.
7. Do not copy anybody, be charismatic, no matter how hard would it seem at the start. Invent your very own gag on the stage and spectators will tell your band from hundreds of similar ones.
8. Be ready for ungrateful spectators. It may happen at any concert that the spectators are just not of the proper caliber to applaud. For example, young people would hardly appreciate your technique and lengthy solo, whereas pensioners would not applaud for alternative music.
9. Remember, you can’t get far on cover versions! If you want to be really popular, compose your own hits!
10. Do not panic on the stage, if some other musicians have constant technical problems during the concert, and so you become sure, something might get wrong in your case, too. Fearful voice and trembling hands is something much worse, than a mike with background noise.
11. Value your reputation! Never perform at doubtful events or at such, format thereof does not suit you. Never perform just to perform – this is for rehearsal.
12. Achieve maximum concentration before performance. It is very important for you to get focused at success and nice performance, when nothing else matters.