I practised my songs today and although I spent hours working on my album over the past few months, playing the songs live is going to be more painful than I remembered! I haven't rehearsed with a band or played live on stage for a few years so today I felt the pain of standing up and strumming barre chords again. I'm giving myself at least two months to be ready to perform so by then I will be totally fine, but my first day back today was like doing a workout after two years of slobbing in front of a TV and my wrist aches like topsy and my back needs a massage! I will be playing every day so in a few days the pain will soon go and I can increase the time until eventually I can play for 4 hours easily like I use to. I'm loving the challenge and am already thinking of how best to adapt the live parts I play to the backing tracks I will use. Of course I can't afford to hire my own touring session musicians just yet lol but I hope to put on a good show that I'm happy with. In a couple of months I will be in touch with some local venues to start with to see if there is a small slot for a partially estranged babygirl with callouses on her fingers again and a warm willing heart :)
Appropriate Song playing in my head right now is "The Scientist" by Coldplay (who I love) ...."Nobody said it was easy, No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh, take me back to the start"
Appropriate Song playing in my head right now is "The Scientist" by Coldplay (who I love) ...."Nobody said it was easy, No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh, take me back to the start"