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Originally Posted by podunklander
Thanks every1  Appreciate the advice Cathy makes perfect sense...thanks! Sounds like you've had a very good experience with performing and having fun with it! p.s. I've heard alot of good things about your music |
1st, if you've not seen Cathy pick, sing, perform, there's a taste, right off the bat here in part 2 of one of the 2001 char video threads:
and it's good to see Cathy back, I remember one of the the first newsgroup threads I searched was regarding pickin patterns ...I read responses from Derek, Cathy, Val, etc where they described Travis pickin string patterns and all that ...I haven't taken music (dumb omission) but they explained it in a way using string numbers and fret positions (tabs?) so all could understand what they were describing ...anyhow, it was enough to realize what they were able to do with their fingers was making my brain hurt, impressive! ...btw, I didn't realize you had an unfortunate setback, Cathy, hope all is well again
ok, real fun to read your inner brain type post, Pam ...I've no seasoned performer type advice as I'm more of a closet musician (was tough to fit the piano in there!) however if you're that concerned about others, my approach to a jam is to either play original tunes or covers that nobody knows so that way your not being compared to anything they've heard on the radio, etc
the other strategy is to drink, drink, drink before going up there ...it usually leads to playing way out of time and droning vocals but atleast it makes ya give less of a darn (great grammar) about the crowd's opinions
but it's not such good advice if you need to drive back from your gig
sorry, I missed you at the Thursday jam...did Sir JF video tape you?