When performing on stage and you’re fifty seconds into a song and it’s not working…you don’t skip to the next song.
You have to figure something else out. You have to do something you didn’t think you were going to have to do in order to sell the song. Change the melody, change eye contact, change the volume, change your position on stage…
It doesn’t always go how you think it will. Sometimes you really gotta work for it. This is why playing live never gets old and why the skills of playing live can always be refined.
Professionals have figured out some things that pretty much work night after night…but the thrill of having to win the audience all over again within the scope of a three minute song…that keeps professionals professional.
