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Hey guys, we are back with Live Lesson EP025! This month’s topic is: How to Become a More Confident Ukulele Player.
This month’s topic should stir up some great questions! So please post all you have below and I hope you guys join us for the live stream. 🙂
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Hey Matt – Because of time zones and schedule I can almost never catch the live lessons in real time, but I always enjoy watching them afterwards. I don’t have a specific question but I’m very interested to hear what you’ll say about building confidence. Obviously practice practice practice is key.
What’s paradoxical for me is that I felt more confident playing (for friends, at performance parties) when I was just beginning and could only strum through a basic chord progression. As I work on more advanced techniques – but oh so painfully slowly – I actually feel more hesitant to play (semi)publicly. It’s as though the more I know, the more I realize how little I know, and the more sensitized I am to how poor my technique is. Help!
Andy – don’t miss this when I post it live. He’s talking about some scientific study that relates exactly to what your 2nd paragraph states.
I got a bad case of stage fright. I work hard on memory of tabs, when that camera come on, I just freeze up.
I have tried doing the video a lot of times , I freeze up ever time. This is my question for the lesson.
“You should only compare yourself to your own enjoyment”.
That live lesson was probably the most helpful one I have seen so far. A real boost towards becoming a better player simply by starting to enjoy more. Because that is what it is all about for me. If some performences come along with that in the future I am ok with it but first of all I am going to enjoy it more.
Thank you so much for this amazing live lesson!
Hey, Matt – I watched the replay last night – thanks! So I’m a Dunning-Kruger test case and didn’t even know it!
What you say about the importance of having fun is SO true, not only for our own state of mind but also for engagement with an audience. A brief story to illustrate . . .
About a half-dozen years ago Heidi and I had just started to learn Lindy Hop swing dancing. And we happened to be walking along the harbour in Victoria, BC, during a summer outdoor jazz festival. The band that was onstage struck up a tune that was exactly the right tempo for our limited abilities. There was a wide area in the sidewalk, so we put down our shopping parcels and started dancing enthusiastically.
At that time we knew only about three moves, so we just cycled through those moves for the whole song. A few people gathered to watch. At the end they congratulated us and I think there was even a little applause. What the onlookers said to us was NOT “those were spectacular moves” or “that was the best dancing I’ve ever seen.” What they said was, “You looked like you were having so much fun!”
We were in our mid-sixties then, now seventy years old. And still having fun. Here’s a tiny clip from somebody’s phone, taken at my wife’s workplace Christmas party a couple of years back.
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