3 Things to Consider when Choosing a Song to Perform

What is the right song to perform to showcase your musical talent to the audience? This is q question you must consider as a performer especially when you’ve just started growing in confidence about your abilities. A well-chosen song can do wonders to your musical growth and confidence. In this blog post we have showcased 3 things to consider when choosing a song to perform that can help set you on the right path.

1. Showcase your technical abilities

Choose a song that is capable of showcasing the technical skills you have learnt in your instrument. However, you must be realistic and honestly assess your own capability, it is always more attractive to listen to simple skills that you can showcase with full confidence than the complicated ones which you can only barely touch. It is important to challenge yourself but remember that when you are performing you should feel comfortable playing or singing that song as well. So, choose a song depending on the stage of your development that compliments your style.

2. Attracting the Audience

This is a very important factor while performing. The whole idea of performing is to draw attention from the crowd that has come to listen to you. If you can attract them through your performance then you have done your job well as a performer. So, when choosing a song, do a research on the kind of audience that might show up in the show and then decide what kind of songs would be well-received by them. For example, trending songs would be more popular among the younger audiences whereas, an adult group would connect more with the classics or older songs.

3. Emotional delivery

You are often heard and understood when you can immerse yourself in the performance. The audience has a tendency to connect through emotions, so it is vital that you can feel and show an attachment to the song you are performing. So, a great place to start is to think of a song that you emotionally connect to or a song that holds some sort of meaning in your life. When you choose such songs, the audience feels the emotion behind it, this is especially the case if you are singing. Such communication between the performer and audience creates a very beautiful moment that will remain for a long time in one’s memory that marks you as a very capable and talented performer and entertainer.

These points can help you get started in the right direction towards choosing songs that can make you a good performer. However, remember that it is important to keep performing to build confidence and stage presence as a performer. Practise is the only thing that can take you from amateur to professional.

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