How to Gain Confidence in Entertainment


by Clinton Jones - Date: 2007-04-26 - Word Count: 385 Share This!

Let's face it, we've all at sometime in our lives within the privacy of our remote suroundings whether it was the bedroom, living room, front of the mirror or in the shower we struck up a pose and entertained like there was no tomorrow, some of us took it that little bit further and wanted to entertain an audience that existed for real, well to actually want to get on the stage and perform whether it be singing, playing an instrument, dancing, telling jokes or stories it can be nerve wracking to think of the matter, on the other hand some people don't seem to have any problem getting up there and have a ball.

I remember having a very strong desire to be a guitarist on stage in front of a vast crowd of people, it was a dream I wanted to fullfill, I wanted to be up there, flambouyant and wild, anything else wasn't worth aiming for as far as I was concerned, the more I was determined to do it was the more I was dying a thousand deaths of fear, it was actually placing me into a catch 22 situation. I was a teenager during this time and at a quite vunerable age, I was a real shy person wanting to go to the extreme opposite which basically was a dream fantasy I wanted to become a reality.

I started to rehearse with local bands and became more comfortable working with musicians as time went on, that was the first hurdle in developing a structures within music, I used every rehearsal as a platform and whenever I played my guitar I looked at the wall across the room and saw my make believe audience/crowd, at times it was nerve wracking but I used that technique to help me get over that obsticle. As time goes on I gained more confidence, obviously my dream was to be an entertainer, we all have dreams, desires and goals in our lives and with that fact we only have one chance, nowadays I love to take to that stage to do my thing, entertain the crowd, turn them, the band and myself on and at the end of the show I feel so good that I can make so many people feel so turned on and ecstatic.


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Professional guitarist, songwriter and musical director residing in Kent, United Kingdom, currently writes for magazines and ezines between tours and music workshops, music styles include jazz, soul, rock, blues, funk, latin and pop.

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