Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by Scout » Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:49 am

Playing in public is a natural progression and people generally will react
positively, music is that kind of thing. Don’t beat yourself up about it. :)

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:19 am

UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
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Nice B&B neck, Sean. Where did that come from?
it's one of those cheap ebay necks. the downside is it needed a fret level and a new nut on arrival. but i've had bad experiences with the seller.
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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by tatotateman » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:44 am

I would never play in a public place. It feels way too inconsiderate to impose myself on other people, and I can't image being such a rude jerk.

However, I absolutely love when I'm out for a walk and I hear someone else playing. It's truly a highlight of my day and puts a smile on my face that lasts for hours. Even if it's very clearly someone who's just learning an instrument.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by marqueemoon » Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:00 am

tatotateman wrote:
Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:44 am
I would never play in a public place. It feels way too inconsiderate to impose myself on other people, and I can't image being such a rude jerk.

However, I absolutely love when I'm out for a walk and I hear someone else playing. It's truly a highlight of my day and puts a smile on my face that lasts for hours. Even if it's very clearly someone who's just learning an instrument.
You could very well put a smile on someone else’s face doing your thing.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by seenoevil II » Tue Mar 15, 2022 9:15 am

I'm not going to lie. A part of me wants to have an ancient laminated acoustic that I sling around my back like a quiver as I walk around in jeans and sandals. I'd sit crosslegged like Marc Bolan and channel the cosmos to a spontaneously formed semi circle of freaky hippy kids as I workshop which suspended 9 chord helps me find a rhyme for "blorange"
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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by DrQuasar » Tue Mar 15, 2022 9:33 am

If it's not crowded you're not going to bother anyone sitting in the park playing guitar. Nobody will even hear you unless you're hammering away on a dreadnaught or jumbo at an obnoxious volume.

I say get yourself an appropriate blanket to sit on go for it!

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by Scout » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:05 pm

I would fit lo mein as a rhyme for blorange. That’s because I’m hungry.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by bripie » Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:56 pm

I tend to do that on my front lawn in the evenings in the summer. I'll sit down with my acoustic and sing to myself, just for the pleasure of it. I like summer evenings and I don't care for neighbours. they probably can't hear it but if they do and it bothers them, they shouldn't have used all that DIY artillery on all those saturday mornings waking me up at 7 am :D My reasonining is, I'm free to do whatever on my front lawn as long as it's not chronically disruptive and/or destructive for the sorrounding area.
As for your problem, maybe find a park where there's some background noise, like a kids playground or someplace very busy with people bustling around. That way everyone will be too busy to pay much attention to you and it won't feel like you're imposing on someone's super important moment in nature or whatever?

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by windmill » Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:51 am

Like Bripie, I sit out the front of my place on a warm evening, till the moquitoes become unbearable, playing my acoustic.

Partly because it is nice to be outside and partly in the hope someone will stop and have chat.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by budda12ax7 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:52 pm

UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:47 am
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Nice B&B neck, Sean. Where did that come from?
Tone is all in the beard. Nice guitar.....

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by jorri » Fri Apr 08, 2022 2:31 pm

I did something in the woods once.
I thought it was like taking a hike with something otherworldly at the end of it.
Couldn't imagine it being that 'productive'. Maybe its the kind of person who takes their work to a cafe which is not me.

What i did for that is just book a solo rehearsal room, but preferably somewhere without loud bands next door...if its just a second working slace right?
Or in the car, i've even had a backing track demod on, or nothing, just got hypnotic from driving then pulled over with a notepad somewhere.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by lastactionhero12765 » Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:51 am

Was out biking this weekend and had to stop at a railroad for a cargo train. The first guy to pull up to the barrier puts his car in park, reaches into the back seat, and pulls out an acoustic guitar. He sat there strumming for the entire ~10 minutes the train was passing. I thought it was a brilliant idea and would probably help to reduce some of the stress I feel when sitting for what feels like forever at railroads.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by Embenny » Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:11 am

I used to do this all the time, especially while traveling.

I have a fold-up acoustic (currently a carbon fiber Journey, but originally a wooden Voyage-Air) that I can wear as a backpack. I'd take it with us when we traveled so I could pull it out in the evenings or whenever we found the right spot.

On my first ever trip with my now-wife, we visited Nova Scotia. We went to Peggy's Cove, and sat out on the rocks watching the sunset. I pulled out my guitar, because there was absolutely nobody within earshot (with the wind, you couldn't hear anything from more than a few feet away).

At some point, a nice lesbian couple came up to us and said they were photographers and would love to take our photo. We gave them our e-mail address, and they sent us a really lovely memento from that day.

I printed it on canvas for our first anniversary, and it's still hanging in our house a decade later.

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by lastactionhero12765 » Sun Aug 21, 2022 9:49 am

mbene085 wrote:
Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:11 am
I used to do this all the time, especially while traveling.

I have a fold-up acoustic (currently a carbon fiber Journey, but originally a wooden Voyage-Air) that I can wear as a backpack. I'd take it with us when we traveled so I could pull it out in the evenings or whenever we found the right spot.

On my first ever trip with my now-wife, we visited Nova Scotia. We went to Peggy's Cove, and sat out on the rocks watching the sunset. I pulled out my guitar, because there was absolutely nobody within earshot (with the wind, you couldn't hear anything from more than a few feet away).

At some point, a nice lesbian couple came up to us and said they were photographers and would love to take our photo. We gave them our e-mail address, and they sent us a really lovely memento from that day.

I printed it on canvas for our first anniversary, and it's still hanging in our house a decade later.

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What a gorgeous view and how lucky to capture such a picturesque moment!

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Re: Do You Play In Public, But Not Performing?

Post by Nevets » Sun Aug 21, 2022 1:04 pm

I do it when camping, if I bring a guitar and I also play on my balcony. Acoustic and electric. Have gotten lots of nice comments from the neighbors.

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