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That sounds like the performance anxiety. Playing live more often definitely helps. That's exactly why I went busking for a while. (using the backing tracks)
I feel my best practice is when I'm recording something.
I would love if performing and practicing felt closer to each other but when I play live it feels like I'm deaf and my fingers are made of jelly or something. Everything feels weird. It's super annoying. It would be better if I played live more often.
Agree with Buco, sounds like there's some anxiety and playing out more will beat that out of you (along with many other things lol). I'd also say that for me, playing out in this genre was very tough for me at first as well and I've played hundreds of non-GJ gigs. Which leads to the most important factor, or at least for me: CONSTANTLY RELAX
I don't gig a ton now due to work but when I do, "RELAX" is my mantra because it's so crazy how just one minor mechanical difference in technique from how I practice to how I'm performing can screw up so many things (and in this style, technique-wise, holy man does everything stem together). And so much of that is caused from body tension, which is also why when I practice, it's always as "loosely" as possible now because whether it's a gig or even just meeting up for a jam, carrying over that feeling of looseness oftentimes means the difference of me playing at 90%+ of my capabilities vs. being self-restrained to 60% or less. And of course, it's largely mental as well so creating that feeling of looseness is also establishing it as a mentality, if not playing identity.
Anyway man, sorry for derailing your building thread - lord knows we have enough threads to bitch about playing lol.
But hey, recognizing that there is something going on, puts you half way to fixing it. Like, seriously.
Yeah i don't know if it is exactly stage fright as much as stage self consciousness or something like that but they are probably the cousins. The constantly relax thing is a good idea. Recovering after playing a bad note is something that is difficult for me.
Recovering after playing a bad note is something that is difficult for me.
Eh, you'll get over that soon enough - we all become experts at digging for clams, just gotta embrace it ;)
But also, wasn't it in Miles Davis's autobiography where he talks about being a young musician in NYC and getting advice from some older cat, who tells him something like "if you hit a bad note, do it again but this time look like you meant to do it" - I've actually done this before and what's funny, that same "bad note" can actually resolve once you see where you're going with it, even nicely.
Totally true. But it's also easier if your Miles Davis to make it work I think.
I'd do that if I knew what bad note I played.
But it did happen once when we were recording with the band. I thought I played a bad note. But when I heard it back, I was like "wait a second, that sounded good?!". So I figured out what I did and now it's my go to phrase.