| | | |
Beth Fridinger
|
5/16/2008 6:17:50 PM
Progress - stage fright, and mandolin
Well I read a lot about stage fright....and the last couple of weeks it seems to have subsided...I have changed my attitude at how I approach the stage...and focus on the music...this past week I did two new things....Monday night at the open mic I was asked to go on early and I did it....and then on Wed I signed up as the first person and got to do 3 songs. The other thing is I got this mandolin and started playing it, so I got up on the stage and did one song at each open mic with the mandolin and I've only been playing it for about a week, but I am really really liking it! Overall the stage fright makes no sense and only happens when I am playing an instrument....but the last couple of times I had no adrenaline surges and I played/sang well.
|
|
Bruce Boyd
|
5/16/2008 6:26:38 PM
Heh heh - that's what a mandolin will do for ya Beth!
|
|
srm
|
5/16/2008 6:31:49 PM
That's good to hear. I think the more you do it, the easier it gets.
|
|
The Man With No Band
|
5/16/2008 9:37:21 PM
Good for you Beth ! .... I'm glad to hear it ... and Steve is right, keep showing up and it will just get easier ... of course Bruce is right too ... There's just somethin' about a mandolin that makes folks seem more friendly ...
|
|
Duane Flock
|
5/16/2008 10:22:41 PM
Some of my tunes have mandolin and if I do a 1-2hr gig, I have to bring mine along.
Mandolins are a lot of fun once you get past the tuning and string structure. I want to get a new one because the one I use now was my fathers at 16. It's a 1956 Gibson f-12 and I don't want to break it.
D.
|
|
srm
|
5/16/2008 10:30:31 PM
No Kidding! You need to protect that axelette. I'm sure it has a sweet sound, but maybe you should save it for recordings. There are so many unpleasant variables, when it comes to playing live.
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 1:00:08 PM
That Gibson is worth a fortune I bet! Well Michael Kelly are good mandos...I actually got a very inexpensive one...the cheapest you can get...it does play well for the money and sounds good...good intonation....if I keep playing someday maybe I can afford to get a better one...but you know...for a cheap mandolin this isn't bad! I am already playing a few rhythm songs learning the easiest chords first then starting to add some of the four finger ones slowly. I started playing a fiddle tune, "Old Joe Clark" with single notes....I was surprised I was able to start playing this thing right away. I think in some ways it feels more comfortable to me than my guitar.
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 1:00:38 PM
---- Updated 5/17/2008 1:13:34 PM
Well I posted this response twice and can't seem to delete it so I guess I'll write something else. I am picking simple songs I like to play and then a few fiddle tunes...I've been looking at scales...to be able to use this mandolin as soon as possible. It's real fun to learn a new tune...and if I can learn the fretboard by learning fiddle tunes...I did get a book on mandolin and it has some scales and I started to play a scale or two. I am hoping to do "Sitting on Top of the World" at the next open mic...been strumming the mandolin in a boom chuck style for this tune...
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 1:16:28 PM
I did my first open mic a year ago on May 7 2007. the stage fright got worse and I didn't even want to get up there...the adrenaline surges were paralyzing and affected my fingers on the instrument...it was embarrassing esp. after being told I was "fantastic" by some and then thinking I had to try to live up to that label...I can only play simple things when performing...and practice simple things a lot...I would like to get a little less simple and be able to do more intricate things in front of an audience.
|
|
Bruce Boyd
|
5/17/2008 6:56:56 PM
Beth because the mandolin has the same tuning as a fiddle, traditional fiddle tunes will just fall under the fingers!
Don't worry too much about scales - scales are for fish!
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 9:22:30 PM
well scales just show me where the notes are...so do fiddle tunes, and fiddle tunes are more fun!!! I know scales on the guitar, I know the sounds....as a kid I played scales on piano...probably where I got my vocal pitch. Now I noticed two mandolins on your site...one was a Moon, and the other...I forget...are these flat backed mandolins? Tell me about them.
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 9:51:41 PM
well scales just show me where the notes are...so do fiddle tunes, and fiddle tunes are more fun!!! I know scales on the guitar, I know the sounds....as a kid I played scales on piano...probably where I got my vocal pitch. Now I noticed two mandolins on your site...one was a Moon, and the other...I forget...are these flat backed mandolins? Tell me about them.
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 9:51:47 PM
well scales just show me where the notes are...so do fiddle tunes, and fiddle tunes are more fun!!! I know scales on the guitar, I know the sounds....as a kid I played scales on piano...probably where I got my vocal pitch. Now I noticed two mandolins on your site...one was a Moon, and the other...I forget...are these flat backed mandolins? Tell me about them.
|
|
Beth Fridinger
|
5/17/2008 9:52:59 PM
Now I noticed two mandolins on your site...one was a Moon, and the other...I forget...are these flat backed mandolins? Tell me about them.
Well scales just show me where the notes are...so do fiddle tunes, and fiddle tunes are more fun!!! I know scales on the guitar, I know the sounds....as a kid I played scales on piano...probably where I got my vocal pitch.
|
|
Bruce Boyd
|
5/17/2008 10:27:24 PM
Yeah you do need your scales for improvising but learning tunes is a fun way of also absorbing the scales intuitively.
I've had the Moon in my profile pic for about 10 years now. It's a flat back made of Sitka Spruce and Maple so it's very bright and chirrupy. The other is a 30 year old round back Suzuki for those "Neopolitan" moments.
I'm currently investigating Australian woods for a custom built mandolin.
...btw the cheap mandolins available these days are perfectly adequate - my cheap and cheerful Samick saw years of service gigging; first with me and these days with my son.
|
|
| |
�2015-16 IndieMusicPeople.com All Rights
Reserved
| |