Originally Posted by: Bar Chord NickCongrats and good luck. Best tip I can give. If the beers are free, don't start pounding them till your done playing... :D

That's no fun at all...

I guess the first step should be... figure out how much you can drink and still be able to play... Then you can drink up to that point. I can play just as good drunk as I do sober... sometimes better... But there have been a few times where I've been so drunk that I couldn't play a lick...

The biggest thing about going from playing in your bedroom to playing in front of people is the fact that you're no longer just playing for you. Now you're entertaining people... so you can't just play whatever you want to play when you want to... Try to entertain. I always try to get the crowd involved with some singalongs... unless they're a hostile crowd... Then I just do socials (where everyone in the bar does a toast and yells "SOCIAL") with them and play...

Good luck man... Like Polansky said... just play.