Here goes! In the last article I gave you 2 tips.
Here is another 2 1.
Failure to Engage With the Audience.
This can mean insufficient information, poor communication skills, too much communication or no communication whatsoever.
No matter who you are you must remember that the audience are more important than you on that night.
Your job is to welcome and encourage them, uplift and enlighten them, excite and calm them.
Your audience, no matter who they are, is vital so you can't afford to alienate anyone through poor communicate or they may never come back again.
And you never know who might be sitting out there! So how can you engage with your audience? Audience participation is a great way to engage with the audience.
This enables you to get closer with your audience and for them to get closer to you.
Watch the professionals; they will often bring a member of the audience up on the stage and sing to them.
They will have a call and response with the audience.
They ensure that there is an opportunity for the audience to express themselves too.
This is very common in Gospel music (and is one of the reasons why church is a great place to be!).
Seeing performers coming on and off stage without any sort of meaningful communication with the audience is frustrating.
Yet these same artists expect to sell products.
Well, as the cockneys' say "you're having a laugh mate!" Its not only the music that matters; the whole package is the key to maximum sales.
2.
Poor Song Arrangements: At another gig I attended recently, I was blasted for most of one band's half hour set with a string of what I can only describe as noise.
There was no variation, no peaks and troughs or even time to think and appreciate what is being played.
I would suggest any performance set to be well thought out before presentation, taking the audience into account particularly in terms of the diversity, dynamics and flow of your set that inspires audiences to better appreciate the band.
Invariably a good song speaks louder than the latest Marshal Guitar Combo.
Ensure that your songs are not only strong lyrically and musically but has public appeal too.
Let me know your thoughts and how these articles have changed your performances!
Here is another 2 1.
Failure to Engage With the Audience.
This can mean insufficient information, poor communication skills, too much communication or no communication whatsoever.
No matter who you are you must remember that the audience are more important than you on that night.
Your job is to welcome and encourage them, uplift and enlighten them, excite and calm them.
Your audience, no matter who they are, is vital so you can't afford to alienate anyone through poor communicate or they may never come back again.
And you never know who might be sitting out there! So how can you engage with your audience? Audience participation is a great way to engage with the audience.
This enables you to get closer with your audience and for them to get closer to you.
Watch the professionals; they will often bring a member of the audience up on the stage and sing to them.
They will have a call and response with the audience.
They ensure that there is an opportunity for the audience to express themselves too.
This is very common in Gospel music (and is one of the reasons why church is a great place to be!).
Seeing performers coming on and off stage without any sort of meaningful communication with the audience is frustrating.
Yet these same artists expect to sell products.
Well, as the cockneys' say "you're having a laugh mate!" Its not only the music that matters; the whole package is the key to maximum sales.
2.
Poor Song Arrangements: At another gig I attended recently, I was blasted for most of one band's half hour set with a string of what I can only describe as noise.
There was no variation, no peaks and troughs or even time to think and appreciate what is being played.
I would suggest any performance set to be well thought out before presentation, taking the audience into account particularly in terms of the diversity, dynamics and flow of your set that inspires audiences to better appreciate the band.
Invariably a good song speaks louder than the latest Marshal Guitar Combo.
Ensure that your songs are not only strong lyrically and musically but has public appeal too.
Let me know your thoughts and how these articles have changed your performances!