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Livingston Taylor's The Stage Performance Playbook
A Stagecraft Masterclass for Captivating Your Audience
Founder's Note
"Three years in the making, filmed at multiple locations, hundreds of hours piecing it all together - this is an extraordinary TrueFire learning experience. You won't learn a single new lick or cool chord voicing in this 5 1/2 hour masterclass but put Livingston's stagecraft principles to work and your audience will be talking about you all the way home." - Brad Wendkos, TrueFire Founder
As music learners, we're so focused on advancing our skills that we tend to forget that we practice to eventually perform and entertain an audience. Whether you perform for family and friends, play at local open-mic nights, or headline world tours - it's your stagecraft that makes or breaks that all-important connection with the audience.
Livingston Taylor's Stage Performance Playbook draws on 50 years of experience as a touring singer-songwriter and thousands of hours teaching the art and craft of stage performance as a Berklee College of Music professor. There's simply no one better qualified to guide your rite of passage on your way to becoming a "great" performer.
"What is a performance? Most artists think it's something that's done to an audience, that an audience comes in and they either like it or don't like it. But it's not like that at all. A performance is an exchange of intimacies. An audience will not accept your passion until you have proven your discipline and that's when you open up the possibility for intimacy with an audience.
The Stage Performance Playbook steps you through dozens of proven, road tested approaches for expressing and exchanging those intimacies with your audience. I've included 19 live performances...
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