I always had a great time watching myself and the faces I made when making a mistake during a song Over the years, I somehow managed to develop a so called 'instamatic mistake repair technique' to distract the audience from what I am doing when I knew I blew it.
For instance, Dave Navarro stated that if he makes a mistake on stage, he plays that note several more times so that the audience would really think that that's how the song goes ain't that spiff? (Kudos to Todd for teaching me this awesome expression )
Have you ever been placed in such a situation? What did you do?
Let's share some bloopers mates
Cosmin
I have developed this art of covering up over the years
I found out the worst thing I can do is to make it obvious for the audience by making a facial expression or something. They just don't notice anything really as long as I'm not playing a completely different song
Also, if you are playing bass - you can just stop playing for a bar or two, they won't even know it, especially if you are pretending that you are playing hehehe I do that when I loose concentration and track where I am in a song structure.
Make a pause - catch up and continue playing.
I just remembered one thing about this as well : wrong note is not a "wrong" note any more if you are playing it in a groove
I would have thought that was just another note, Cosmin. I don't know enough theory to explain what it sounds like to me, but it sounds okay.
hahaha we use that Dave Navarro's way when we do mistakes at the rehearsals but as a joke.
When I do a mistake live I tried to continue as if nothing happens, but if it's so obvious I just smile...
I've had lots of practice covering up my mistakes. I'm getting good at it now!!!
Smiling and laughing always worked for me and my former band
Cosmin, I really thought you'd say "oooops!" into the microphone...
I wouldn't have really noticed that mistake. I would think its expected to have the occasional slip up when you are moving around on stage. I guess if you would have played that note over and over agin like Dave Navarro maybe it would have been more obvious?
I was in a band years ago where we had a drummer who would occasionally loose his place in a song and would just stop playing! So, we would say something like "we are just warming up!" the crowd would usually just laugh. Granted we were an inexperienced band and usually played in front of about 15 people. It happened during a few shows so my nerves were shot before and after playing live with this band.
i have acted like my mistake was a bitchin guitar riff and no one noticed
I've never performed live on stage before so have never had the experience in front of lots of people. When playing with friends at say a house party no one has every really noticed or at least didn't seem to care... I usually laugh and try to make it look intentional
As a spectator, I like it when a band makes the occasional slip up when playing live to be honest. Reminds me that even the best have their moments and it's OK. Seems more real to me...
rok
Some people just keep going. The lead singer for Skillet took a tumble at 1:45.
I think Dave Navarro got that from Jerry Garcia, fyi...
When I am messing up I just call it Jazz
+1 Alex!
@Gabe: yeah man, when the drummer makes a boo boo, well that's the worst because it usually drags ALL the crew with him to the pits of rhythm hell
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