Learning to sing and play guitar for performance

alisa April 29, 2021 0 Comments
My challenge is that my "performance skills" were all honed around beautiful tone, lyric recollection, (melody recollection was generally automatic,) melodic variation attuned to known or heard harmony, and emotional connection to the lyrics and/or music communicated through music tone/timbre, face & body. (Hell, with rehearsal I can dance and sing if I need to...although I get out...

The Importance of “Playing by Ear”

alisa April 28, 2021 0 Comments
Yesterday I was rehearsing some before a planned practice with friends. I was playing guitar and listening to a rhythm track. For the first time ever on these songs I started noticing that it was “feeling easier” – essentially, I was starting to “feel confident” as I played and sang. I’ve been thinking about that, and I have a theory: In order to play confidently, some level of...