Stage Confidence

 To give you some context, we’ve spent the last 2 years, 11 months and 4 days living in our RV caravan and traveling around Australia doing what 's called the “Big lap”. And a big lap it was, during that time we traveled well over 65,000 kilometres and had many a wonderful experience.

Due to covid, we didn’t go to many open mics along the way but in 2023 have gotten back into that and really enjoying it.

While traveling I learned the thumb and finger technique from one of Justin’s lessons which opened up for me a whole bunch of new songs, especially those with a strong back beat, like a lot of Credence Clearwater songs. I’ve easily added a dozen songs to my repertoire with that technique alone.

Getting back into the open mic scene has opened up for me a new learning experience which is playing without ever looking at the fret board. Previously I was fairly good at mostly not looking but when I started playing the open mics again after not doing so, it was clear to me I wanted to up the ante.

It’s sure made a difference to my open mic playing and I’m happy to report that this week I performed at our music club doing my 89th ever open mic. Afterwards my wife even commented that she’d noticed the difference,

I also noticed a higher level of mental confidence during my performance. I felt like I was at home sitting there on the stage. Here’s a picture.





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