| Author |
Topic: Played out for the first time. |
Frank James Pracher
From:
Michigan, USA
|
Posted 18 Nov 2010 9:15 pm |
|
with a lap steel that is. I was NERVOUS!!!!! A friend of mine who is a singer wanted me to sit in. Good thing I brought the Stevens bar cause my hands were sweating so bad I think the bullet bar would have went flying! I got a lot of good feedback.(and not just from the drunks  )
_________________
"Don't be mad honey, but I bought another one" |
|
|
 |
Steve Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, GA
|
|
|
|
Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
|
Posted 18 Nov 2010 10:57 pm
|
|
It only gets better from here, Frank. Congratulations and keep it up!
_________________
Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
|
|
|
Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
|
Posted 19 Nov 2010 1:18 am
|
|
Congratulations Frank, you just jumped over the big wall and you can now consider yourself addicted.
The first gig is usually the worst, but it only gets better from there on in. My first rehearsal with a named star, I was so nervous and wound up that I couldn't remember how to play Old Folks At Home let alone her numbers. Our nerves do funny things to us but after that first time off the diving board, it just keeps getting better.
By the way, keep that Stevens bar in your pocket at all times. You will be using it more than you think you will. |
|
|
|
Ric Nelson
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland
|
Posted 19 Nov 2010 4:51 am
|
|
As everyone has said, it gets easier with time as you build confidence. It might come back to a degree at times when you work with a new band again.
What may help at first is to try not to get too fancy and stick to the basics, playing the melody.
Remember, if they asked you to play, they must have felt that you could, so you don't have to prove that. In time, if you make a mistake, you learn how to cover it up to make it sound like it was intended in the first place. We all do that.
Part of overcoming what is really "stage fright" is getting rid of the Stevens bar since it sounds to me like that is a crutch for you.
Black out the audience and concentrate on what you and the other band members are doing and interact with them, if you don't already.
It's been years since I've been in your shoes, but like the rest of us, we all remember it all too well.
Keep at it.
Ric |
|
|
|
Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
|
Posted 22 Nov 2010 6:23 am
|
|
You will do fine!
Since there are at least 100 guitar players for every steel player. You don't have as much competition, and because of that you will be perceived as being a much better player than you really are! 
I can impress a lot of guitarists and other musicians, but you my steel playing peers really know the score! 
This is not to say you don't need to practice and keep improving every day, but it helps to play a relatively "rare" instrument.
Dom
_________________
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYG9cvwCPKuXpGofziPNieA/feed?activity_view=3 |
|
|
|
