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What Is Your "breaking Point?"

At what point do you start to freak out at:

How many people does it take to get you really nervous?

Only a few.	[ 28 ]	[31.82%]
Infront of a group of friends.	[ 4 ]	[4.55%]
At a party, (15+ people)	[ 7 ]	[7.95%]
Small gig, at a bar, or party	[ 9 ]	[10.23%]
Somewhere around 100 people	[ 8 ]	[9.09%]
Small onstage concert, talent show (200-800)	[ 10 ]	[11.36%]
Onstage, thousands of people	[ 5 ]	[5.68%]
Millions, Huge gig, Live TV	[ 2 ]	[2.27%]
I dont get nervous at all....	[ 15 ]	[17.05%]

Total Votes: 88

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muntahunta View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 04:13 AM
Dec 5 2007, 04:13 AM	Learning Roadie Posts: 783 Joined: 6-September 07 From: Newcastle	i ahve played to over a few hundred people and i just dont get nervous anymore. at my first gig however (about 60 people in the room) i was so nervous i started to drink (NOT a good idea) luckilly for me the adrenalin was cancelling out the alcohol so it was fine. I can play infront of hundreds of people without getting nervous, even if its just me and an acoustic guitar onstage, yet i cant stand up and speak publicly infront of anyone... weird You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standard w/ Dual EMG 81 Pickups. Size 11 Strings. Ibanez GRG170DX w/ Scallopd frets 17-24 - w/ Dimebucker and APH-1. Tanglewood TW28 STR DLX CE INDIANA Acoustic Guitar NEW: Dean Deceiver w/ EMG 81/EMG 85 Pickups Effects: Pod XT Live AND Pod X3 Live Recording: Cubase SX3 My Bands Myspace Act Of Silence Songs: Fly From The Inside (Cover) So Far Away Down Break The Cycle Never Again (Cover) Crash Wake Me More Acoustic Songs: Chris Kerswell Soundclick Page Check out Munta's Step By Step Songwriting Lesson

Smikey2006 View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 04:28 AM
Dec 5 2007, 04:28 AM	GMC:er Posts: 2.361 Joined: 27-April 07 From: London,ont	I tend to be too busy concentrating on playing and the smoke and stuff than i do on the crowed. Sometimes when you first step out and all you can see is the people you get nervous but after that its just play. I think i like it better when the people have come to see you play rather than people who are sorta forced to watch you play. I always get mixed feelings but i tend to get nervous only infront of people i care about or really big crowds. + 1000 You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Schecter Exotic Star+ Peavey VK Ibanez Xiphos 707 + Krank Revolution 100 Damien 7 Wishlist Schecter Customshop Schecter 2008 Blackjack Damage Control Timeline Delay Pedal/Distortion a laptop that runs protools :'(

Victafor View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 04:46 AM
Dec 5 2007, 04:46 AM	GMC:er Posts: 205 Joined: 25-June 07	QUOTE (swingline @ Dec 1 2007, 02:08 PM) For me I am fine until about 200 people, then I get nervous. But if my dad comes in and asks me to play something I get nervous. I think its because I care more about my dads opinion. same thing with me! i get nervous at around 100+ people but if my dad comes and asks me i get nervous rofl... You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

LwShieN View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 07:45 AM
Dec 5 2007, 07:45 AM	GMC:er Posts: 33 Joined: 24-November 07 From: New Zealand	Good poll , if playing in a band with a group of band members then i guess even with thousands or millions of people it won't be that bad and nerve racking as playing by yourself You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- MY GEAR Ibanez RG1570 Seagul Accoustic Guitar Brandless Classical Guitar Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah Gt8 Boss Pedal

Fsgdjv View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 09:47 PM
Dec 5 2007, 09:47 PM	GMC:er Posts: 1.255 Joined: 12-April 07	That depends on the sutiation, I really can't answer that. It depends on who the listeners are, but mostly their expectations. I (think I) could play for millions of people who were just "people", but one person that's close of that I admire of whatever would be enough to break me. Sorry that I can't answer the poll, but this is my answer You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My Practice Agenda

Xranthoius View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 11:03 PM
Dec 5 2007, 11:03 PM	GMC:er Posts: 447 Joined: 21-May 07 From: Usa Illinois	QUOTE (coffeeman @ Dec 4 2007, 09:05 PM) I get nervous even when my dog is looking at me, I just dont know what to play. what? You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! --------------------

Ivan Milenkovic View Member Profile	Dec 5 2007, 11:07 PM
Dec 5 2007, 11:07 PM	Instructor Posts: 25.396 Joined: 20-November 07 From: Belgrade, Serbia	I forgot to post that I sometimes get more nervoused in front of one person (whatever it may be) than in front of many people because it is more personal to play for one person only than a bunch of people. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE - Check out my GMC Profile and Lessons - (Please subscribe to my) YouTube Official Channel - Let's be connected through ! Facebook! :)

Dejan Farkas View Member Profile	Dec 6 2007, 10:42 AM
Dec 6 2007, 10:42 AM	Instructor Posts: 3.035 Joined: 27-November 07 From: Sarajevo, Bosnia	QUOTE (coffeeman @ Dec 5 2007, 04:05 AM) I get nervous even when my dog is looking at me, I just dont know what to play. Can you imagine my situation, a dog and a cat together The dog is a fan of nylon strings, while the cat (black one) like the distorted sound Whenever I prepare myself for something, and if it is important for me, a have a light neurosis prior to that.. but if I am prepared well it disappears with the first bars, the only thing that remain are music and me You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- http://www.myspace.com/dejanfarkas Check out my video lessons and instructor board!

Vinod Saranga View Member Profile	Dec 6 2007, 10:43 AM
Dec 6 2007, 10:43 AM	Acoustic Instructor Posts: 1.279 Joined: 15-September 07 From: Colombo,Sri Lanka	To me It's not how many people watching me.It's how much I 've prepared for the concert or whatever. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Visit Sinhala Songs Chords

Saoirse O'Shea View Member Profile	Dec 6 2007, 01:52 PM
Dec 6 2007, 01:52 PM	Moderator - low level high stakes Posts: 6.173 Joined: 27-June 07 From: Espania - Cadiz province	QUOTE (Dejan @ Dec 6 2007, 10:42 AM) Can you imagine my situation, a dog and a cat together The dog is a fan of nylon strings, while the cat (black one) like the distorted sound ... guess there's always going to be at least one critic in the audience Dejan . Cheers, Tony You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com Be friends on facebook with us here. We use professional, mastering grade hardware in our mastering studo. Our hardware includes: Cranesong Avocet II Monitor Controller, Dangerous Music Liasion Insert Hardware Router, ATC SCM Pro Monitors, Lavry Black DA11, Prism Orpheus ADC/DAC, Gyratec Gyraf XIV Parallel Passive Mastering EQ, Great River MAQ 2NV Mastering EQ, Kush Clariphonic Parallel EQ Shelf, Maselec MLA-2 Mastering Compressor, API 2500 Mastering Compressor, Eventide Eclipse Reverb/Echo.

trueblue450 View Member Profile	Dec 6 2007, 07:07 PM
Dec 6 2007, 07:07 PM	GMC:er Posts: 6 Joined: 24-October 07 From: Ankeny IA	our band plays shows with high energy... and high alcohol consumption.. usually by the time we play everyone is smashed... including myself. I usually have the five minutes before we go onstage to get nervous then as soon as the first note is played im ready to go! You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Equipment: Gibson Les Paul Standard: Vintage Sunburst EMG81/85 Schecter Black Jack: Emg 81/85 Ibanez Strat copy Washburn 6string coustic Marshall TSL JCM2000 Halfy with 1960av To many pedals to list !

speezy View Member Profile	Dec 6 2007, 07:21 PM
Dec 6 2007, 07:21 PM	GMC:er Posts: 12 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Seattle	i really don't get nervous playing in front of people, but when i am playing by myself and my dad walks in, i start screwing up. But if my dad is in a crowd of like 300 or more, i am fine, i can play perfectly. I just usually am relaxed because all im thinking about is the music, and then i can play You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Kristofer Dahl View Member Profile	Dec 10 2007, 05:15 PM
Dec 10 2007, 05:15 PM	GMC Founder Posts: 18.755 Joined: 15-August 05 From: Stockholm, Sweden	Do any of our instructors get nervous - when thinking that thousands web surfers will see their videos? I do! You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- My lesssons

Batista View Member Profile	Dec 10 2007, 05:22 PM
Dec 10 2007, 05:22 PM	GMC:er Posts: 213 Joined: 13-July 07 From: Sandefjord, Norway	I don't get nervous no mather how much people there are, as long as there aren't only a few people who are gonna check how good I am or whatever. I have played before 3000 people and I enjoyed it fully out and I didn't get anything nearby nervous, but when I played before my guitar teacher the first time for example, I was shaking so I almost fell of the chair. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Seven Deadly Sins, One Deadly Syn Gear list: Gibson Les Paul Studio Alpine White Schecter Damien-6 Vox AD30VT Boss DS-1 Boss MT-2

Chris Evans View Member Profile	Dec 10 2007, 05:27 PM
Dec 10 2007, 05:27 PM	Learning Tone Guru - Community Coordinator & Moderator Posts: 6.319 Joined: 24-September 07 From: Sittingbourne, UK	QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Dec 10 2007, 04:15 PM) Do any of our instructors get nervous - when thinking that thousands web surfers will see their videos? I do! really, that suprises me a little, you seem relaxed in the vids. I agree tho, when I`ve posted my collab contribution or am posting a work in progress lesson on the instructor board, straight after I post, I sit and think about it for minute or two in my head kind of wondering if I did the right thing when posting it You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Show us what part of the world you live in and get yourself ON THE GMC:er Location MAP

Tsarpf View Member Profile	Dec 10 2007, 09:17 PM
Dec 10 2007, 09:17 PM	GMC:er Posts: 143 Joined: 14-April 07 From: Finland/Porvoo	If I know that I can play it well then I'm not afraid at all... Well... My biggest audience is abouts 100 ppl.. and that was in school.. and the song was very(!) easy... You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Tmas View Member Profile	Dec 11 2007, 01:53 AM
Dec 11 2007, 01:53 AM	GMC:er Posts: 66 Joined: 5-November 06 From: USA South Carolina	I get nervous even in front of a few friends.God, I wish I could get over it. The only few times I have never gotten nervous was at my mom's wedding and at church. This largest group i ever played in front of was about 500+, And I top of that I wasnt playing guitar, I was playing trumpet. When I get nervous I start shaking, and you can just guess what it sounded like playing trumpet with you head shaking... Crazy vibrato lol You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- Yeah... I'm member number 911. What about it?

Dejan Farkas View Member Profile	Dec 11 2007, 02:41 AM
Dec 11 2007, 02:41 AM	Instructor Posts: 3.035 Joined: 27-November 07 From: Sarajevo, Bosnia	QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Dec 10 2007, 05:15 PM) Do any of our instructors get nervous - when thinking that thousands web surfers will see their videos? I do! I really don't because I take all necessary time and effort to make a lesson, and publish it when I am satisfied (cannot say 'completely satisfied' because there's no such phrase in my vocabular, I always think I can make it better and spot some little errors that no one else see You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- http://www.myspace.com/dejanfarkas Check out my video lessons and instructor board!

Xranthoius View Member Profile	Dec 11 2007, 01:40 PM
Dec 11 2007, 01:40 PM	GMC:er Posts: 447 Joined: 21-May 07 From: Usa Illinois	Actually, when I record myself on the computer, usually a whole song, I start getting nervous too... I think it's because I don't want to play it over if I mess up. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! This post has been edited by Xranthoius: Dec 11 2007, 01:41 PM --------------------

g-forcelover View Member Profile	Dec 14 2007, 03:20 AM
Dec 14 2007, 03:20 AM	GMC:er Posts: 630 Joined: 24-September 07 From: Wilmington	whoops. i just relized i put the wrong thing. the theartre i just played at haad over 1000 people and i wasn't nervous. it takes live tv and millions to get me nervous. but i doubt i'll ever be playing that big. You are at GuitarMasterClass.net Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content! -------------------- i tripped and broke my guitar's neck. :(

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