my first time.... when will it be yours?
i haven't posted here for a couple of years, but have been popping back every so often to see what's the latest being discussed on ljp....
i had my first live performance the other day.... and for the first time ever..i really mean ever, i dared to improvise in front of an audience.... i was playing along with another keyboardist/singer who laid down the bass and some simple chords, with ep sound, whilst i fought to stay in the harmony and remember the song form..... what a great experience, and what mental gymnastics too...i was totally drained the next day. i have always hated the idea of not knowing exactly which notes i would be playing, and was quite uneasy before the performance.....anyway after all the hard preperation (i.e. getting to know the progressions and forms of each song and what to play over them) it went really well 'despite' the mistakes i made... so i've got my foot on the first rung of the ladder......
one piece of advice from the novice... all of you guys hanging back there who are constantly reading about voicings, licks, runs, subtitutions, ii v i's, turnarounds etc etc and are struggling to get your head round them.....get yourself a gig, play at a party, at a wedding, what ever now,preferably with other musicians... before having this gig and playing with another musician i just couldn't figure out how to use this stuff properly. and now it's starting to make much more sense, you very quickly see what works where and what liberties you can and can't take.. so from novice to novice. don't hold back go for it...
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i wish i would have paid attention to the advice above put so concisely by dr whack... it has been told here over and over and over again by various ljp members... but some of us stubborn guys want to be able to play perfectly before we doing our first gig, and end up wasting years jamming 'alone' in our bedrooms hoping to improve... that's impossible so don't make that mistake......
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