How to perform in front of others without getting nervous

[@ItsAriaFord]

I was always had terrible stage fright until I told and told and finally convinced myself I was turning my nervous energy to excited energy and believed in myself and felt truly comfort. Now I play BETTER in front of people as opposed to just by myself. Positive self talk and belief is all it takes. You’ll be surprised when I tell you, you are fully, I mean 100% in control of your stage fright.

[@jacobbarnes1453]

Wow, I just FEEL more confident playing alone thanks!

[@BATMADZ_]

Doesn’t “believing” go against what he said about “lowering your expectations of the situation”? Sorry, I just want to get a better grasp of what you said. Also, since he says that I WILL be less nervous the better I get and the more I practice, does that mean I should wait to perform in front of my family until I get GOOD good? They all want to see me play guitar, but I’m always so afraid that I’ll mess up :’)

[@ItsAriaFord]

@@BATMADZ_ Do it whenever you feel ready to! Everyone has a different reason for their stage fright, so it really comes down to finding what YOU truly need! For me, I had a mental block and kept telling myself I was stage freight, and wasn't going to do well that I ended up manifesting it. It was when I finally decided "I don't care if I mess up, nobody is perfect, and it's not the end of the world" when I finally just went ahead and did it. I said I was excited to show others what I had practiced, and that my goal was to have fun performing, to be excited to perform, instead of being scared of not being perfect. Then, the more I performed, overtime I became more and more comfortable. I started off shaking trying to just perform in front of my mom, and now, three years later I can perform on a stage in front of a whole audience without messing up (tho I am still nervous/excited a lot of the time). In the end, stage fright is an obstacle that many people have to face. It's okay, you can do it, I believe in you and it IS okay to mess up. We all do!! Best of luck and don't be so hard on yourself. Prepare till you feel confident ENOUGH in your skills so you aren't stressing quite as much, then, just do it! It'll be okay, you got this!!

[@ItsAriaFord]

@@BATMADZ_ Also, it really helped me when I learned that there is science that can actually help as well. Studies show that excited and nervous energy are experienced in the body the same way! It is only up to your mind to decide which one you are feeling. So next time you feel nervous, just channel those butterflies into excitement instead and it might actually become more enjoyable!

[@BATMADZ_]

@@ItsAriaFord Wow, that’s amazing how you you’ve overcome your fear and are now playing for a whole audience!! Much respect to you 👏😮 So basically what I need is to practice performing in front of a few people at a time and a change of mindset?

[@SumailDota]

performing guitar player here. audience do not see your mistakes on stage the same way you remember them. the audience however gravitate towards how your stage presence makes them feel. on small gigs most audience are musicians. theve been on the stage before they know its not easy to perform. so dont go hard on yourself they dont hold high expectations over you.

[@Acehan]

Yeah and if you have your shit together, people will see and remember that you have your shit together.

[@joshuachadmorris5178]

Sumail I needed that I'm a grunge guitar player and I can play all the time in front of rockers but my stepmom gets me to play with her in church and that kind of music I'm.not used to and I screw up Everytime

[@neo_______]

Sumail thanks for the advice

[@x._cosmicz._x5837]

Sumail On Friday I’m playing at a prep rally with everyone at school watching me :/

[@krelbar]

I suffer from stage fright as well...but I do the opposite. I try not to be afraid to make mistakes. I improvise in uncharted territory and try to pull myself back into my comfort zone. I fail quite a bit...but some moments are magical...especially that point (that lasts only about 10 seconds) where you see the whole neck and realize you couldn't play a wrong note if you tried. Then you think too much about it and lose it...lol

[@GamingGuyKen]

I always mess up when playing in front of anyone, not just little mistakes either. On my own, when I nail something well... I feel a huge emotional burst and I know THAT'S ME! I did that, I can do that and I want to share it. That first couple of mins of this video changed my approached after 17 years of playing. 8 years ago, I had a huge set back after a brain injury. This made my hands shaky and my little finger on my left hand weak. After years of picking the guitar up and feeling like I've started all over again, I'm now back on a good level. My little finger is more controlled again and my general skill is higher than it ever has been. It's amazing how a few mins of video can up your whole approach on another area, that you once found massively daunting. Let's see how this changes things over the next few months. Thanks! TL;DR - Subscribed.

[@michaelhtritter]

I totally love the switch of going up on stage to impress people into going up there, basically, to show where your training and mastery is at currently. If you've trained hard (which I have), that is plenty impressive enough, I don't need to play better than I can, because basically that's impossible (or rare and based on luck). Brilliantly perceived and shared and communicated. Love this. Really really love this.

[@theaztec1568]

Don’t practice until you can get it right, practice until you can’t get it wrong

[@DanDelVecchio]

You have no idea how many people (including myself) need to hear this! Thank you.

[@math8137]

Thank you guitar elon

[@willhudson5534]

i think your an awesome guitar teacher because unlike other peoples videos that explain technique, you speak the truth that every musician can relate to. thank you for the inspiration to improve :)

[@stvrsstavridis]

Amazing advice, it's probably the first time I hear something like this articulated that well. I think it goes the same when you're trying to record something complex and getting it wrong every time regardless if you can play it alone.

[@fernandoaiello4362]

I was going to comment the same! Great teacher over here!

[@milt3663]

You're teaching style is one of the best on Utube. Great, great personality and just extremely witty. All you're analogies are fun, and the teaching content is very original. Much thanks

[@rp1526]

Best video I’ve seen about addressing nervousness. And I will watch it multiple times. Thanks.

[@malilowden4802]

Perfect pitch for where I am at right now. Thanks so much for putting your own experience out there and sharing what you have learnt. It all makes so much sense and I really look forward to putting it into action

[@guitarmastery]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mikenoble690]

Thank you for your advice, really helps me feel more confident!

[@kenlelon369]

I am very happy you stuck with us here on KZbin. I have learned so much from your straight-to-the-point teaching methods and own a number of your courses. I also know how brutal the comment section can be at times. Keep it up, Claus!

[@UzumiAsh]

Thank you so much. I have a stage performance tomorrow. And this really gives me the motivation i need to play without being nervous.

[@realboltfan]

This psychological approach is great! Im fairly seasoned but still get nervous. I find the subject fascinating. Thank you.

[@jonathanreynolds1579]

Thank you, sir!!! This is going to help. I play pretty decent when I'm alone or in front of my wife, but I'm dropping the ball every single time I have multiple people listening to me play. I feel judged, even though they tell me I did great.

[@ianwheeler8764]

I really like Claus' enthusiasm and down-to-earth advice. The fact that he is also an amazing player helps too. Thank you sir for sharing your skills and advice with us.

[@HyperspeedMedia]

every day by day Claus is turning into a zombie... but, I love his video, I'll be here even during the Zombie Apocalypse.

[@siccbastard4580]

I couldn't help but notice his uh... facial features

[@DJDmusicasart]

Hi, this is 2020 speaking. You might be able to enjoy that experience very soon now. Stay tuned.

[@Joelicholas]

Followed you like yesterday. Prolly one of the best and underrated guitar channels. Good job and good information!

[@waynelazar1236]

Claus I am a guitar teacher and I think this video is so helpful for those who will play in front of others (whether it be the family or a general audience.) Great ideas so well presented!

[@Terbie36]

Get well soon, Claus. My favorite guitar teacher.

[@revolution51]

This is important to learn as one progresses in guitar skills. Thank you for this very important vid. For me anyway.!

[@DavidCatalanoGuitarPlayer]

He gives good advice. Andy James told me the same thing. When playing for others, stay in our sweet spot.

[@OldTelecasterMan]

I have been playing for years.. Playing guitar, singing..for over 40 years yes in front of a lot of people. This guy makes a lot of sense. Very cool video. One thing he didn't mention, not that many people actually listen. I have gone into a solo and grabbed a handful of wrong....oops... made the correction looked out into the crowd and not a single person noticed... My bass player and drummer laughed but he is correct, it's not the end of the world. Practice practice practice...play on stage below your level of ability....words of wisdom from Glenn Tipton..read that in an interview. smart man.

[@fisherohvf-men623]

I read that same article I do Believe

[@Olive-xf6nd]

im actually here for singing i have a solo in less than a week performing in a giant concert hall in front of over 100 people and ive never done a solo before im really taking anything i can get at this point

[@sprintsutilities7669]

i know its a year later hah! how did it go?

[@Olive-xf6nd]

@@sprintsutilities7669 i actually got sick and lost my voice 2 days before so i didnt get to sing but since then i have done multiple solos, duets, and groups and i perform at venues on a regular basis. im usually scared before each one but once i get up there i pretended its a rehearsal and it always goes great!

[@nerminabbasli7574]

Philosophy of guitar playing.....nice

[@JohnnyGuitarRocks]

Just purchased your Fretboard Freedom program and am excited to get started. I love your philosophy and instruction Claus!

[@stephenpenwolf]

I took this course years ago - it was a game changer for me.

[@martycann1]

Great information! Thanks! I will apply some of these ideas to my KZbin channel when I film in the future! Marty Cann

[@jerg83]

It makes sense. Totally agreed. 👍🏼

[@rohan-ghosh]

Forget stage fright, I had severe studio fright all by myself yesterday!!!! Had the song so well practiced. The moment I turned on the lights and camera - oh my god! Watched this video and I'll keep trying :D

[@Griz1961]

Thank you.

[@Jasmine-Jeane-H]

This is great advise.

[@stevehightower8906]

Perspective... Indeed. I appreciate your angle on things, Claus.... and the right perspective is the difference between cool and, well, not.

[@ClarisseOfficial]

Thank you so much for another great lesson, it was exactly what I was looking for! Great method of teaching, you are revolutionizing education! By the way, I tried your method on the scales, and it worked perfectly! Thank you for sharing!!

[@BlackUnicorn1111]

Yes, this is exactly right..! Claus.. I have gigged for many years in the past, and in the beginning it was some kind of very hard, but after a while when you start to know what really works for you and the audiences, it's becoming more easy. When you begin to experience success, and did know why it happened, it begin slowly to turn around, and become very exiting and relaxed feeling to play live gigs. I could almost be high days after.. But many thing have to come together, it's not only your skills/mastery that will do it, also your sound/gear, kind of music, the other musicians and some times also the stage/place you are playing. But every word is correct in this video..

[@BlackUnicorn1111]

Oh, forgot to mention.. and a good singer.. ;)

[@thetrentmeister]

Your videos are great, Claus! Thanks.

[@malcolmdeere1692]

Great points made in the video. The best way to overcome fear of speaking or playing to other people is indeed to build up. If you can address 6 people, 60 is no problem either.

[@lordjubei9829]

Good message !

[@remyQuillmeister]

Good info. I'm glad I stuck it out to the end.

[@bestboy897]

Such great practical tips thanks Claus

[@Abheek]

Great advice ClausLevin!

[@Marshall50w]

Great advice Claus. I think you are right in that the audience is not really judging you, except of course if they are another guitarist ! and thankfully the majority are not !! Perhaps playing within yourself is what keeps the nervousness down and that for me comes from practice, practice and more practice.

[@kderby2204]

I always suck when anyone walks into the room I am playing in. Thanks for that perspective.

[@iggyward]

This is perfect advice

[@billhenderson8340]

Thanks Claus !!!

[@juliciencia]

Great video, thanks✨

[@petert7449]

Very well put into perspective. Thanks very much for that

[@zool38]

you' re right man it's one of my biggest problem, happy to apply your advice. keep on posting those great videos.

[@karlbork6039]

Johnny b good is a great example. So many simple things sound great on guitar. No reason to over think the situation.

[@LeroyYue]

Great speech! Applies to all things in life.

[@jonislow]

Thanks for the pep talk coach!

[@santiagoaguirre4258]

great video, thank you

[@SQadir]

Very impressive, all your uploads are very practical and useful I have very few coming out with topic as you do

[@mcmadman51canada]

Great video, great advice. Thanks for sharing.

[@hosain_awad]

ClausLevin very nice teacher thankful 👍

[@dannyroe1697]

Wait, what is the guitar sat on ?

[@babaniyiiyanu3425]

wish you speedy recovery.

[@loopie007]

Thank you Claus!

[@ScottJGarvey]

Amazing advice

[@walterweimer1333]

so good advice and so right

[@olmonk]

A good talk.

[@bartnettle]

Go with what works! Great Video advice! I feel a lot better about practicing the very fundamentals of my bass technique. Much of what I love to learn from your videos and others never comes in to play in front of others 95% of the time. But on bass you have to do your job and there is pleasure in that for most genres. When you get a solo often being less flashy sounds better. The level of mastery applies to standards too! Good advice! Thanks

[@johnnybasco5860]

great advice Claus. You are the Mr miagi. of you tube guitar lessons. keep up the great work

[@sledtobed]

this guy is too cool ..really lays it out there ..I agree with him on the critical people thing ...there out there .. screw their opinions ..theres no easy way.....thats the way ..its easy

[@shygalaxyyt2400]

I'm very nervous I was asked to play the piano at my grandfather's furnral and I don't want to say no but I am so scared of messing it up that it makes me sick....

[@fallingfalls9981]

can i know how it went if u did plau

[@shygalaxyyt2400]

@@fallingfalls9981 oh yeah! I did pretty good didn't mess up to bad, after I was done I could stop shaking for like an hour. But I was able to get through it!

[@100reck]

good advice man, I appreciate your videos

[@DeekJohnson]

great vid, great info...thx for the perspective..."drop to your level of training"...perfect.

[@travisryan8548]

Well expressed Claus, as always you are spot on. Great advice!!

[@andrewjames7493]

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.

[@THEPUNCHPIT]

Awesome video 🤘🤘🤘

[@codytaylor7310]

Great videos I'm really getting alot out of them! Thanks alot.

[@chase36chase]

"just play what you are really able to"

[@frankquinn1296]

great advice, as always.

[@babaniyiiyanu3425]

love your approach. thank you for this video

[@nigel134679]

great teacher glad i subscribed to your channel

[@congorianso]

Great Advice!

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Thanks for explaining this ! You are so right ! Looking back, I now realize that my degrees of stage fright with guitar playing were proportional to my mastery at the time . The worst case was when I tried to wow the audience with some evil voiced metal -Phrygian thing I concocted , and I actually went a little numb all over my body and lost track of the band and where I was so painful for everyone I'm sure . While the most joyful whoops and yelling of encouragement I ever got from the audience was when I improvised a simple solo for Wipeout ( the Safaris ) I was completely unselfconscious, like I was listening and watching someone else play it, I could look the audience in the eye and feel like I was with them watching some guy play . Thank you .

[@lelandmatsuda5716]

You know you’re really hitting home on the points about what you are doing wrong when it feels like someone is pricking a needle into you several times a minute! Great advice. Got to recognize what the problem is and how to fix it. Basic, but you explain it so well in a musical performance situation. Thanks so much, I feel your video is going to help me a lot!

[@zacharymiller6397]

thank you your video was very helpful 👍😊

[@alexdunneguittff]

Great video, helped a lot but I'm a big video and colour guy so the lack of saturation and contrast in the video itself was painful

[@augustinechinnappanmuthria7042]

Super 💓❤️

[@lovetolearn2568]

ClausLevin do you have videos of u performing live

[@LaszloMetal]

You have many good points in your videos. I play the guitar since 10 years, and gathered a lots of experience, that nobody said to me before, and these important tips, and tricks, I found a lot of them in your videos. And also new ones, so keep up the good work! And dont care of the morons who are bullying you because of humid/sweaty face skin. Actually you can make a video of experiences about sweating on stage, and playing on wet guitar. I had a lotsa cool memories about this on summertime shows... :)

[@tylerpeacock7113]

Thanks

[@Ranametalera]

Bro, i was waiting for this video a long time a go, in fact i'm sure i aksed about it a couple times in another of your videos, anyways... Thanks a lot, and i hope you get well pretty soon!

[@edbowles5497]

Will definitely start brushing my teeth again.

[@levonbagdasarian7918]

Oooh man, I was laughing so hard up to the last second of your video. Your charisma busrts out when you speak about that Johnny B good solo. Hahaha I can't get enough of it, I'm watching this moment over and over again. This is such a good video, honestly.

[@johnnygodel7531]

Sounds very familiar. Great video. Thx.

[@w8ting2feel29]

thnx dewd

[@bangersandmashism]

Does anyone know what the colourway of his strat would be called? it's a beauty. 😍

[@michaeljung7146]

Very helpful lesson, and I get to wonder , Did you ever invest your time to develop speech skills? My mother tongue is Korean, and I'm feeling very often times , English native have much fluent speaker than Korean native when they give lesson. in same amount of time, English native gives more and intuitive understanding than Korean.

[@benjaminhillman8873]

I'm just wondering how you can get your guitar to float

[@aaronsolomon1700]

Thank you man! Can someone tell me where I can find that guitar stand?? Thank again!!

[@aaronsolomon1700]

*guitar stand

[@HTNT9]

great tips here...I get so nervous when I play at guitar stores. Feels like my hands freeze up and I even struggle playing basic pentatonic licks.

[@emmanuelwolf6568]

I remember someone saying ,you’ve got to be good enough to play whilst people are throwing things at you whilst standing on your head lol.

[@cihancakal4963]

GOLLUM! GOLLUM!! That thumbnail image 😂😂😂

[@beenforgiven2003]

Bro thank u man

[@lilbanana6159]

Me: Plays in front of others My parents who should be supporting me: What have you been learning