
Steve Goss: Stagecraft (Dec 5) Questions / Suggestions
OH YES, we're finally doing it! FINALLY going to be talking about stagecraft - and with the great maestro Steve Goss, no less!
(This is a topic we have been wanting to address for months now, and which we will touch upon some more very soon!)
Find the start time in your time zone by clicking the photo or following this event link:
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/steve-goss-stagecraft
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions about things he might want to touch on, and offer you a chance to ask him your own questions!
- What questions do you have for him?
- Any particular area you would like us to focus on?
Forum questions will be answered first!
"Stagecraft: what changes between playing at home and playing in public? How do we play our best under pressure? How can we focus and keep concentration? How do we interact with an audience? How do we speak to an audience? How do we combat performance anxiety? In this seminar, I’ll be looking at ways that guitarists can prepare better for performance in recitals, exams, auditions, and competitions."
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Kind regards from Ecuador, maestro. Keeping in mind that I'm not a professional guitarist, whenever I get to play classical pieces, I get to do so to audiences that don't necessarily have knowledge of a classical repertoire, meaning they can be more impressionable by me and that can forgive our mistakes. Maybe they might not even notice. But how to move on when you just made one in front of a refined audience that knows what you're trying to play? Thanks.
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I find I 'tighten up' in front of a recording device as well as an actual audience (always very small in my case). Mind you, I'm fine in front of my cats. (They sometimes interrupt, but they never criticize!) Joking aside, I would say that whenever I am aiming to get through an entire piece to the best of my very modest ability, I anticipate mistakes before even starting. Part of the problem, I think, is that I don't practice how not to make a mistake, so to speak. My general habit during practice is to stop when there's a problem, analyze it, and try to correct it. I probably don't spend enough time working on pieces in their entirety. So I guess my question is: how do concert performers prepare their repertoire, so as to play 'perfectly'?