More Tips When Performing Live With Guitar

Hannah's final lesson rounds up all the knowledge that has been discussed throughout the course series and tops it off with tips and tricks for performing with the guitar.

Lessons aims

• Learn some useful tips and tricks on performing with the guitar and have fun incorporating them into your skills set

Exercise 1 - Figure of 8 / Stepping on heels

• By swaying and loosely moving in the figure of 8...

• We are avoiding being static on stage and keep the movement in our performance

• Keep our head positioned centrally which maintains our good mic technique

• Additionally, stepping and transferring our weight from side-to-side on our heels achieves a similar idea but with more of a bounce to the rhythm

Exercise 2 - Filling the space while tuning

• It is always important to keep the guitar in tune as it naturally de-tunes during playing, especially in more vigorous playing sections

• Between songs and during tuning is an opportunity to talk to the audience

• Prepare a story, anecdote or information about songs, locations of music videos or social media information to engage with the audience and portray our personality between the music