Had a good birthday
Dec. 4th, 2012 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstill Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. You made me happy.
I mentioned having a bit of a gig--I just wanted to let you know that it went well. I commandeered two of the mics that The Emancipators had been using, and I think I got them reasonably positioned for vocals and mandolin without taking a lot of time about it or wrecking everything. One side effect of the extra practicing I've been doing (I've been doing 20 minutes worth of instrumentals on the mandolin and another 20 minutes worth of instrumentals on the octave mandolin every day since about April, and recently I've added another 20 minutes of octave mando struming / singing, and included a metronome) is that I just feel much more confident about stuff. I think I did a better job performing (though not perfect--sigh) but I know I went up there feeling like I had everything under my fingers and not shaking--or if I shook it didn't get in the way of my playing.
Which is interesting since the new development with the CD printer and abridged Bible-belt-safe CD meant I changed my set list up a lot yesterday (to include songs from my CD--if I hadn't taken any to sell there would have been a lot less point in doing that) so while I had practiced a lot, I hadn't practiced these specific pieces much in a while. Practice. It works. Who knew?
I sold three CDs, which I thought was pretty good since there were maybe 20 people in the crowd, and the Emancipators had CDs too. There was another between-sets singer, Chris Dunham, who is local and who was quite good. He said he had CDs and forgot to bring any. I suppose my new adventures in marketing are going reasonably well; at least I brought mine. And I closed my 15 minute set with "That Kind Of Mouse" saying that if my current CD did well enough that I could affort to make another, this last song will be on the next CD.
One of my customers donated his 5$ change to the production of the next CD. That made me feel good.
I mentioned having a bit of a gig--I just wanted to let you know that it went well. I commandeered two of the mics that The Emancipators had been using, and I think I got them reasonably positioned for vocals and mandolin without taking a lot of time about it or wrecking everything. One side effect of the extra practicing I've been doing (I've been doing 20 minutes worth of instrumentals on the mandolin and another 20 minutes worth of instrumentals on the octave mandolin every day since about April, and recently I've added another 20 minutes of octave mando struming / singing, and included a metronome) is that I just feel much more confident about stuff. I think I did a better job performing (though not perfect--sigh) but I know I went up there feeling like I had everything under my fingers and not shaking--or if I shook it didn't get in the way of my playing.
Which is interesting since the new development with the CD printer and abridged Bible-belt-safe CD meant I changed my set list up a lot yesterday (to include songs from my CD--if I hadn't taken any to sell there would have been a lot less point in doing that) so while I had practiced a lot, I hadn't practiced these specific pieces much in a while. Practice. It works. Who knew?
I sold three CDs, which I thought was pretty good since there were maybe 20 people in the crowd, and the Emancipators had CDs too. There was another between-sets singer, Chris Dunham, who is local and who was quite good. He said he had CDs and forgot to bring any. I suppose my new adventures in marketing are going reasonably well; at least I brought mine. And I closed my 15 minute set with "That Kind Of Mouse" saying that if my current CD did well enough that I could affort to make another, this last song will be on the next CD.
One of my customers donated his 5$ change to the production of the next CD. That made me feel good.
