Overcoming Stage Fright - GuitarLessons365

[@thezestychunk5575]

I always remind myself that most of the people listening are not musicians and if I mess up that it doesn’t necessarily mean that they noticed or will harshly judge me for it. I know this is probably weird way to go about it but that’s how I think of it, thank you Carl for this awesome vid and stay zesty...

[@jansanchez879]

That’s literally what my band teacher says

[@gkisscovers5320]

The Zesty Chunk my teacher tells this too

[@JakeFields92]

you sir are correct. It is truth!

[@Mraknz]

Same thing goes for playing a Squire or a Customshop...

[@RemyTrahant]

Great lesson, Carl! Even when I go to my guitar lesson and play with my teacher I get nervous and don't play as good. I really like the idea of your teacher having the students play something simple but in front of the class on a daily basis. I think that's the best way to overcome this anxiety.

[@scottlenox4497]

I’ve done quite a few performances in musicals, to athletics to playing in a band for about 3yrs and now with my job I do a lot of public presentations. 1.) the more often you do it, the more comfortable you feel in the next one. Try to perform more regularly than having a lot of time in between. 2.) The crowd won’t notice a minor mess up. 3.) If there are lights, it may be difficult to see the crowd, just sing and look into the lights. 4.). It’s always easier after your first song / 2min of presenting. The nerves kind of fade away. 5.) Like he said, be kind to yourself in the end.

[@christianalexander6364]

A strategy I used, is mostly focus on the music and enjoy it, hearing the music I like really eases almost all the stress, also focusing on your bandmates boosts your confidence a little bit too

[@Poco1970]

Great reminder of, as my high school football coach would say, doing the little things! Get those steps right then everything else falls into place. I 100% agree with you on positive performance situation. I remember working up to my first performance in my high school garage band. We slowly allow people to come to our rehearsals to get used to performing in front of more and more people before going to the live performance. Helped a ton! Also I would echo to practice the way you will perform, stand up with your instrument when you practice, wear the outfit you'll wear on stage, etc. Thanks again Carl for your insight!

[@kasnitch]

I practice until I can play the piece with my eyes closed . then I practice more and deliberately distract myself to improve recovery . eventually the anxiety lessens and you can enjoy the performance alone or not .

[@rippytheclown8330]

Gonna try it out. Thanks

[@PotterFan394007]

Just your cat there 😂😂😂 I remember feeling horrible everytime I had a flute solo performance. I totally blew an audition over nerves!

[@BlackRaven156]

I love this video! Such wise words! Your channel is incredible!

[@Kleinesmet]

what tuning is this in?

[@GuitarLessons365SongLessons]

🤣

[@arcticturd4969]

His voice sometimes reminds me of Kirk Hammett

[@jeffnobles9251]

Senpai has posted again.

[@Zosojuan]

When I saw the queen movie I got stage freight when they showed the live aid parts 😂 I was so mesmerized I was picturing myself on the stage jamming with them lol

[@briankeesler240]

I am by no means at the level of performing on stage 😆 that said I love the guitar , I love to practice and I love learning however,Tbh I have such an anxiety about even recording myself that as a premium subscriber to Carl Browns academy I can hardly make a video to send him and what’s worse he’s such a nice guy a great teacher 🤦‍♂️ . It’s truly a uncomfortable feeling I recently just stopped playing for about a month because I was so upset with myself about this. My daughter ever supportive informed me a few days ago “dad, your learning your supposed to be bad,” 😂 Maybe one day I’ll work through this soon I hope 🤞 need to make videos to get better right?

[@GuitarLessons365SongLessons]

But you do great in the videos you send me! 😀

[@donnamanning7263]

I performed in front of a bunch of my residence the other day as many times as I’ve practice over and over I got some anxiety hands clammy I got so nervous but everybody still clapped and praised me I just didn’t like the feeling that I was getting and I want to try to work with it watching your video you’ve given me some ideas so I hope it gets better in the long run. I’ve been playing almost 3 years I’m 62 yes I’m a late bloomer but never too late to learn

[@richieismyhero]

Thanks Carl, an important topic

[@TheMightyPirateTm]

Great topic, this is something I struggle with. I'm super nervous even when I play for my friends, I can only imagine what it would feel like to be up on stage. Thanks for the tips, I will check out the book :)

[@Riffman42]

People are there to have fun and be entertained. So have fun and be entertaining. SMILE! If you want people to smile, smile at them. Make eye contact. When you get your audience on your side (and they WANT to be on your side) it makes performing easy.

[@roycobb621]

Hey Carl, For your next video could you angle one of your cameras so that we can see your pick- up selector switch. It would be helpful to know what pick-up you're using during the lesson. Thanks so much for the great lessons!

[@nacienlos70]

Ohh.... I have had some bad moments on stage. Just surviving a whole show not enjoying one moment of It. And memories haunting me afterwards. If I still go on with it, it is because I love playing guitar, so eventually I will conquer this shit.

[@ThrashRebel]

When I was a guitarist/singer in a thrash-metal band I just let my hair hang in my face. 😂 When I was the singer for a “Alice in Chains-type” band, I kept turning my back to the audiences. My band mates got on me about it & told me I needed to keep facing the audience because I was the singer, the one most people looked at. To be honest, I just blocked out the audiences while singing. I cannot remember anyone’s face from those crowds. They were a “blur” to me.

[@opprrer3328]

Thank you for this video! I have played on stage infront of my town before, but I always get soo nervous! This video should help! :)

[@OneGuitarist]

Great video! This is something new players always ask about, and you put in a great format.

[@554LH]

Thank you, thousands of lessons but the performance piece often overlooked.

[@PotterFan394007]

This is such a great way to look at it, thanks for your advice!

[@gagecrump7174]

Thanks for the helpful words

[@iloveheavymetalmetalrules6829]

Thankyou Carl so much your videos are great thankyou

[@jostingvasquez549]

What a video. Thanks Carl!

[@thaimeuu]

the anxiety got worse and worse, my hand was sticky, my body was sweating, tempo didn’t exist anymore. i felt bad days after the performance in front of 1 friend.

[@gregcapuano2350]

Great video! Can you do one on booking/getting gigs? Solo or cover band.

[@pulpdoc02]

Excellent video ..Very well done

[@MJ12chemist]

DAMMIT, why do I play Metallica instrumentals next Saturday which are at the edge of my abilities and it will be my second performance in my life (after like 9 years after the first one) with chronical social anxiety (needless to speak about stage fright)?!!

[@anton5786]

How did you do?

[@DanteLikesRock]

username checks out. the stage fright killed him. rip😔😔

[@garrettallen7140]

Loved this video!

[@scottsmith-bm6py]

I've played in front of groups and done just fine. My problem is not fear of mistakes because I feel I can just get thru it and carry on. But I was performing a picked piece that was pretty much at the edge of my ability (just base-1-2-1) in front of my church, solo, that I had down pat in practice, and progressively this gremlin came out and my right hand started shaking and I had to quit playing. Couldn't go on. My left hand with the chords was fine. Or when I play with a straight strum I'm fine. But in a larger group of 8 or more the gremlin now strikes regularly with a picked piece. It's like I let the gremlin out of its box at the church performance and now I can't put it back in. I feel like I could give a speech to 1000 people but this picking paranoia just came out of nowhere.

[@Brovioli]

5:17 Reminds me of that Lil wayne "solo"

[@biggjery]

Thank you

[@justinellis9465]

Great tips and advice

[@edwinwise6751]

Great advice… Pandemic took me off stage for 2 years . Last Sunday performance = panic attack

[@keith9713]

Great info !! Thanks

[@radiodummies]

got this show Friday I’m so scared lmfaoo 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@I_do_not_have_time_to_hurry]

Thanks for the info. It's nice to know that it is something that most people have to learn. Now I don't feel like such a loser anymore because I get so nervous. I will ask family and friends to help me and play the piece I know I can play with ease.

[@harshadasguitarworld2667]

Thanks a lot. It'll help me 😊

[@skelleytor]

6 pack of beer? I have this problem too , just playing in front a few people lol also practicing

[@GuitarDreamer]

Sounds crazy but Run around the block (or do other cardio) then pick up your guitar and play. You will be in a state of anxiety from the run and you can learn how to play with that feeling. You will also learn how to calm it down faster.

[@blipblup7168]

Always helpful carl and cool sigur ros shirt also Im sry for this but omg shortest straw already plz 😩

[@arniarnason6535]

Thanks🎸

[@librabeautyaddict9171]

I liked ur video it was really good

[@bradey3577]

Hey I'm 16 and playing my first gig in 2 weeks and all my bandmates are musical veterans if you will, they're way better than me and way older than me and I know I'm not ready, any advice?

[@AnthonySforza]

Totally late to the party, but how did it go?

[@HexyLexy04]

CAN YOU PLEASE DO A LESSON ON INCENSE AND IRON BY POWERWOLF

[@samrussell7887]

Can you do a guitar lesson on Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer?

[@markosweet5873]

can you do the God That Failed???? Its my birthday and it would be an amazing present

[@smokey15651]

I know you may not see this but I would love a lesson on come again by the damn Yankees

[@vedmore6428]

Nice video

[@yassinehadjahmed3189]

Hey your lessons are awesome can you please make a lesson for (Rage against the machine know your enemy) please

[@SeadartVSG]

Recording something for me is the worst. If you want to record something that is worth people listening to, it's probably going to have some content that pushes your ability. I have not figured out how to get around my hands slowing way down to play complicated leads or rythyms for recording when the red light goes on . Most of my recordings suck. Playing live you need to have a few songs that sound very impressive if you want to get gigs, and the best thing to do is to practice those songs so well that you play them on auto-pilot from muscle memory. When I started playing guitar in public I played mostly for dances, and people wanted to be there and wanted to have a good time, and we were just facilitating that, and the band and dancers get a symbiotic relationship going, playing becomes automatic and just being in the moment. Playing a gig where people are sitting there just watching you is harder. Try to get a sound check before the performance so you can go out on the stage and play a song or two .

[@ΑναστασίαΓ-ω9λ]

I have a performance tomorrow and im over here shitting my pants

[@wildamendez]

Is not that I don’t know how to do guitar solo. It’s just I freak out cause I know I have to do a “solo” on stage. When performing and it’s time for me to do a guitar solo, I get anxious so much my fingers can’t move and become stiff making me even more nervous cause I know everyone is watching. Then My brain begins to think 🤔 “o I suck im not good etc etc. Follow by brain fog. It’s horrible.

[@GAMNGgeek]

Or try the old metallica method of getting absolutely wasted beforehand

[@joaopedrobarreto638]

the best vídeo

[@ciarandestino7878]

Could you do a lesson on Roundabout by Yes

[@mimoochodom2684]

If I have to do any public speaking and address people, I wear reading glasses. Everything in front of me is a blur and it feels like I'm talking to myself. When you look up or around, people think you're looking at them but you can't see them. lol.

[@charliecampbell2924]

Tbh I just act like a goof and have fun with it don’t think about the music and what I’m playing just let the muscle memory do it’s work

[@GhostkillerPlaysMC]

Hey Carl, can you do a tutorial on Sex and Candy by Marcy's Playground?

[@joaopedrobarreto638]

nice

[@koviddogra8352]

Please do any opeth lesson. Would be awesome and really helpfull.

[@evanshepardofficial]

My tip... Carl Brown

[@theguitarcave9044]

Ha ha Carl said medicate yourself lmfao!!!!

[@tombeaudry3143]

**Stage fright? Take 40mg of Inderal 1 hr before performance. Also known as the "Musician's Steroids". I've taken it many times, and it slows down your hearts adrenal gland...no it doesn't make you high!**

[@travsnipes1]

Love this video! More great tips that I didn’t see elsewhere! Thanks man

[@chairmankaga2821]

My solution was to go out in my underwear and picture my audience fully clothed.

[@jacquesozier8897]

🤣🤣🤣

[@twentyoneHz]

Honestly, I just get s few beers in me (it’s not the best treatment, but it works)

[@daphenomenalz4100]

If like classical music teach conquer or die

[@AreEnTee]

Don't think, just do

[@daphenomenalz4100]

If you really like classical music teach conquer or die

[@nateguitar486]

Great videos man. I subbed and thanks to your advice I've decided to start my own guitar channel and I would love the support and feedback from anyone.

[@guitarisfun7055]

one word Beer

[@deansanton6549]

I'm too afraid to play even for one person. Maybe 'cause I suck too much on guitar 😂

[@bartholomeusclever]

i suck on guitar my whole life and still performed a few times on a stage .. my secret: just have fun

[@williamlayton1827]

First I need to play😂

[@GuitarDreamer]

Xanax

[@marcelinemuniz3718]

I clicked because he looks like andy from the office

[@fatherlucifer]

face your other bandmates not the masses.

[@vedmore6428]

First comment and view and like

[@vedmore6428]

Give me a like carl

[@jeffnobles9251]

Dad does not like we like him.

[@daphenomenalz4100]

If you really like classical music teach conquer or die

[@daphenomenalz4100]

If you really like classical music teach conquer or die