GO LIVE

Playing your own compositions live to other people can sound like quite a daunting prospect, particularly if you’re planning on playing alone. But there are multitudes of practical (and psychological) approaches that can make that transition relatively painless.

Firstly, we should state here that playing live shouldn’t always mean playing a prearranged set. There are many ways to improvise and expand on your existing compositions – and getting your hands dirty and jamming is part of the fun. Improvising and making instinctual, reactive decisions when performing is a very important aspect of being a musical performer and mastering the confidence to do this can assist your growth as a musical artist – it develops your listening skills fast.

For producers, a set that’s a bit loose in structure and leaves you freedom to jam is a fantastic way to assess your in-progress tunes; often, that can simply be a case of observing how audiences react to what you’re doing, while sometimes it’s about how you react yourself – how you feel when you hear your new tunes playing in public.

You might not feel ready to interact and create with other artists live and maybe you’ll make mistakes or