Hello Again,
I was watching some video game videos on Youtube with my Nephew earlier today. One of thing many things we watched was a Speed Run of Super Mario 64. If you don't know what a speed run is, it's basically people competing to complete a game under certain conditions as fast as possible.
Well we were watching a person beat the game in 5 minutes!
After my entire childhood was ruined by that experience it got me thinking about how precise the player must have been in his performance of the video presented.
And of course since I'm plagued with the sweet joys of ADHD, I immediately translated that to music performance.
It got me thinking about how different it is to perform in rehearsal or writing vs what it's like to perform music live.
I've been playing guitar for roughly 15 years no and every day that I play I'm more and more enamored with both the complexity and the inherent simplicity of music.
It's astonishing just how precise a person even at my mediocre level can get during songwriting. But even with that I've noticed a drastic change in my precision when writing when compared to what I play like live.
After a lot of thought and experimentation I've determined that the more nervous I am my playing precision is negatively effected.
I figure a lot of this is due to the fact I haven't been a live player for probably about 10 years or so. When I first started playing guitar I did nothing but play in front of people. However after high school graduation I spent a lot of years indoors practicing as well as learning a trade as a composer. So that meant I didn't get out on the road much.
Now that I'm out on the road more than not, I'm finding the concept of nerves an intriguing new experience.
What are your thoughts? Do nerves affect you positively, negatively, or not at all?
And if nerves have been an issue for you in the past as a live player what have you done to fix the issue?
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