Re: "Brain Flatulence" when playing
Originally Posted by
Mandobar
... completely normal, especially when adding pressure. ...feel like a blathering idiot. ... It happens to everyone.
Do realize the added pressure of playing a different type of music, with players of probably differing background and/or expectations. It might not seem intimidating at first, but can be.
After decades of rock & casual folk, I joined a mandolin orchestra 5 years ago. Unfamiliar repertoire and "classically-trained" folks that, from my viewpoint, -gulp- actually knew what they were doing! And follow a conductor? Then they asked me to be the #2 guitar player rather than the #17 mandolin player. THEN the other guitar had to withdraw for several months. Yes, some sleepless nights just before that first major concert as the ONLY guitar...
You eventually realize that most mistakes are heard only by the person who made them.
- Ed
"Then one day we weren't as young as before
Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
I'm a better man for just the knowin' of you."
- Ian Tyson
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