Performance comparison: singing with accompaniment vs. singing and playing guitar
It’s interesting, comparing performance when I am singing and playing guitar to when I’m singing with others accompanying. When I am singing and playing there is, quite frankly, more to keep track of. The mind stays busy because I not only need to keep track of the lyrics (or, at least, of my mental map of the lyrics,) but of the map of the chords/chord structure, and have some awareness of...