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The hardest part about professional music, is that you have to perform at a schedule. It takes a lot of effort to perpare your body physically and mentally for
by heinrichhartman 7y ago
The hardest part about professional music, is that you have to perform at a schedule. It takes a lot of effort to perpare your body physically and mentally for peak performance ... and often-times you just fail. Have a bad day. That happens.
There will be many concerts, where you are just at 70% of your peak ability.
As a professional musician, you have to make sure your 70%-version is good enough that people gladly pay for seeing it.
- coldtea 7y ago>As a professional musician, you have to make sure your 70%-version is good enough that people gladly pay for seeing it. Or you just do electronic music, so that's not an issue!
- snazz 7y agoA lot of live electronic music performances involve some pretty serious showmanship.
- strbean 7y agoOne of my favorite "laptop DJ" moments - I saw Brock Hampton at a festival in 2018. Hadn't heard of them before, and they were described to me as a boy band so I had low expectations. Their performance was bizarrely wonderful - they were all painted blue and wearing orange jumpsuits. Anyways, they have a DJ with a Macbook and a bunch of rappers. At one point mid-song they have a bar of silence, and I swear I saw the DJ lean forward and hit spacebar to pause the track and then resume it after.
- meestaahjoshee 7y agoto be fair, a lot of them are just pushing a play button as well
- coldtea 7y agoShowmanship, yes, which is different that musicianship and needing your "70%-version" of the musical performance to be "good enough". Also, a lot of other live electronic music performances have almost zero showmanship, so there's that too. (Speaking as an electronic musician)