I played out for the first time a few weeks ago at an open mic. Played with two pickin buddies, a guitar player and banjo player and lucky the event was videotaped. I was really amazed to see that we actually looked and sounded pretty good. So now the seed is planted and we have plans to do a few more open mics.
Because we videotaped we were able to look back at the evening and I did notice a few things in my playing I would like to improve upon. Most notable I tended to look down at the fret board the majority of the time we were up there.
My question is beyond being able to play your instrument competently, what other skills do you feel takes a musician and propels then into being a performer?
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