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Category Archives: performance strategies
New Year’s Musical Resolutions – DAY 2 of 3 – Bands, Lyrics and Emails
On Day 2, we are looking at more practical ideas to get your musical aspirations back on track. Some of us may not be ready to get out there right away as a front person in a band. So, maybe … Continue reading
Starting a Music Course with Confidence
Starting a new music course can be daunting. At every step of my musical education, I worried if I was going to be good enough and whether I would be able to stay the course. In this short article, I … Continue reading
Posted in Improving Your Confidence, Justifications, performance strategies, Thinking in a better way, Uncategorized
Tagged Clive Stocker, comparing to others, gracious, introversion, jamming, jaques loussier, learning names, mistakes, music college, Music For You Summer School, practise
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What do you make of this performance?
What would it be like if you had 100% belief in what you were doing? A month ago, my friend and colleague Ben Angel (Lead singer from The Bohemian Embassy) showed me a video performance on Youtube which has really had … Continue reading
So what is behind the Confident Performer?
A couple of weeks ago, presenter, actor, dancer, director and choreographer, Laura Graham-May interviewed me about the Confident Performer Book and I have had a number of requests for the audio interview to be presented as a written transcript. So … Continue reading
Posted in Confident Singing, Improving Confidence in others, Improving Your Confidence, performance strategies, Thinking in a better way
Tagged city of bath college, Clive Stocker, confidence, confident performer book, free ebook, late starter, laura graham-may, Ronnie Tucker, soundcloud interview
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From Fear to Fun. Improving your confidence.
Just recently, many musicians I have met or have worked with have said, “I want to improve my confidence”. This came as a bit of a surprise to me as some of these musicians seem very confident already. We can … Continue reading
What can we learn from comedians about being a confident performer?
This week, I was talking with Chippenham born and bred, comedian and compère, Wil Hodgson. Alongside performing professional stand-up, Wil also compères Burlesque performances and hosts his own comedy nights, featuring comedians from all over the world. “What’s the first … Continue reading
Posted in performance strategies, Uncategorized
Tagged Chippenham, Clive Stocker, comedians, comedy, comedy nights, confidence, entertainment, isabelle adam, on-stage death, wil hodgson
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The Beauty of Simplicity
This week, I had the privilege of meeting a pianist who had a few issues with nerves associated with performing. She said she felt that the audience would be critical of her if she made a mistake. That was quite … Continue reading
Lee Risdale, Soul Singer, Walks the Walk
One of the key principles of NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is that if you desire to get better, find the people who are already doing what you want to do and work out from them what YOU need to do. … Continue reading
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