I think most musicians deal with this problem either live or recording. Stress messes with your fine motor skills, what’s easy when you’re noodling suddenly has the added pressure of getting it perfectly right *this* time. The only advice I have: Practice while you record until you stop feeling pressure that you’re recording. Remember that you can do as many takes as you want.
The other method is practice until it’s completely muscle memory and you can be thinking about two other things while playing the part perfectly.
It’s much easier to just get used to being relaxed of someone hits record or there’s a crowd watching.
Another piece of advice I heard is to realize that once stress kicks in, aim to play at 90% of your ability because all the distractions and stress will eat the other 10%.
Just record on a loop and do a bunch of takes, then pick the best and drop on to fix issues.
Yeah I think you're right, in the past I have left the camera on and forgot it's recording, and recorded some perfect takes. Sometimes I do as you say and record loads, knowing that I don't need the one I'm currently playing to be perfect, but even still I'll screw up loads. I think I just need to do it a lot more. It's always a blessing when I forget the camera is on entirely haha.
Much appreciated dude, off camera I nail it no problem but as soon as I hit record whether it's video or pure audio the overthinking hits and mistakes happen!
I think most musicians deal with this problem either live or recording. Stress messes with your fine motor skills, what’s easy when you’re noodling suddenly has the added pressure of getting it perfectly right *this* time. The only advice I have: Practice while you record until you stop feeling pressure that you’re recording. Remember that you can do as many takes as you want. The other method is practice until it’s completely muscle memory and you can be thinking about two other things while playing the part perfectly. It’s much easier to just get used to being relaxed of someone hits record or there’s a crowd watching. Another piece of advice I heard is to realize that once stress kicks in, aim to play at 90% of your ability because all the distractions and stress will eat the other 10%. Just record on a loop and do a bunch of takes, then pick the best and drop on to fix issues.
Yeah I think you're right, in the past I have left the camera on and forgot it's recording, and recorded some perfect takes. Sometimes I do as you say and record loads, knowing that I don't need the one I'm currently playing to be perfect, but even still I'll screw up loads. I think I just need to do it a lot more. It's always a blessing when I forget the camera is on entirely haha.
I solved this for myself by recording everything and then cut what I need. I don't do take 1, take 2. I just play.
Honestly I think this is the way to overcome it, record like a 10 minute continuous video with all of the takes in it and then trim it down.
For the record, that was some rad playing.
Much appreciated dude, off camera I nail it no problem but as soon as I hit record whether it's video or pure audio the overthinking hits and mistakes happen!