Book “Getting Your Music Past The Fear”

IF YOU’VE EVER felt that sickening paralysis descend on you as you take the stage, this book is for you. If you’ve ever felt yourself putting out a stiff, wooden, forced performance when you know it could be a flowing, joyous experience, you’ll find help within these pages. If you know you have the music inside but voices keep talking you out of doing anything with it, you’re not alone. There is a way out. Fear is what keeps you from singing that song you wrote to your friends, or from putting a band together and looking for some gigs. Fear is what keeps you from relaxing, opening up, and really putting out what you have to offer, whether in a song, on stage, or in the studio.

This book examines the fear and its underpinnings with in-depth exploration and specific examples from the author’s 30+ years of experience as a professional performing and recording musician. Discussions cover both the deeper psychological issues that give rise to the fear as well as many easily accessible techniques for dealing with fear now, when you’re on stage in its grip. Specific chapters address performance, the recording studio, songwriting, business, rehearsal, and the larger arena of life in music. A section of concrete exercises, organized by application and context, is designed to help get your music past the fear and out in the world where it can do its work.

Playing music can be a joyous dance, an exquisite expression of life itself and all that it holds. Music can move mountains; music can change the world. Let your music come out and play. Get your music past the fear.