I was always good at singing which eventually led to music school which led to years of performing. As OP said all eyes are on you, but really what is coming at you is energy from the audience, the other musicians, the lights shining down on you, even the darkness that you are in when you can’t see the audience because of the lights. You have to learn how to manage and re-direct this energy, and realize that it is positive energy, very rarely will you be in a situation where the listeners don’t want you to succeed.
Speech class in college taught me how to eliminate things like saying “um, like, and you know” from public speaking, but performing music taught me how to deal with energy, and you do this not only through experience but through extensive preparation.
It can also be helpful to keep things in perspective, if I’m walking to work and a baby falls out of a window and I catch her, then she grows up to cure cancer, what was the real reason I even went to work that day was it to stress out over a speech or was it to catch the cancer curing baby?
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I was always good at singing which eventually led to music school which led to years of performing. As OP said all eyes are on you, but really what is coming at you is energy from the audience, the other musicians, the lights shining down on you, even the darkness that you are in when you can’t see the audience because of the lights. You have to learn how to manage and re-direct this energy, and realize that it is positive energy, very rarely will you be in a situation where the listeners don’t want you to succeed.
Speech class in college taught me how to eliminate things like saying “um, like, and you know” from public speaking, but performing music taught me how to deal with energy, and you do this not only through experience but through extensive preparation.
It can also be helpful to keep things in perspective, if I’m walking to work and a baby falls out of a window and I catch her, then she grows up to cure cancer, what was the real reason I even went to work that day was it to stress out over a speech or was it to catch the cancer curing baby?
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