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The Secrets to Becoming a Stand Up Comedian
So you want to become a stand up comic? This article will cover the basics to breaking into and establishing yourself at stand up comedy. Obviously their is no "right" way to do comedy, this article is just meant to show you the basics and help you get started. One consistency for most comedians careers is having a real passion for the work and spending countless hours preparing, performing and writing your comedy.
Planning is a never ending process when you are a stand up comedian, regardless of the level of performer. Deciding where you will first perform is the obvious question you must answer. Open mic nights can be found at almost every comedy club. If there is no major comedy club in your area, check out local coffee shops or bars, these places often have open mics. Besides planning where your first performance will be, the next logical step is planning what you will say. A good goal for a first time comedian would be to write and memorize five minutes of material for your first show. You may to want to avoid talent shows, or other venues where you would be performing in front of a large group of friends or colleagues. The best environment for a first time performance would be at an open mic, to give you a chance to focus on being a stand up comedian and not worry about impressing your peers. Plan to go up at several different open mics and take advantage of any performing opportunities you may come across.
It's tough to gain any real insight in your first performances; you will need to keep doing shows to get a good grasp on what is working in your act and what isn't. Getting discouraged early on is a common problem, however if you have a real passion for comedy you will stick it out and continue going up as a stand up comedian. If after giving it an honest shot you don't believe stand up comedy is for you, well one more thing checked off your bucket list. If you continue to enjoy the process of stand up comedy and the act of performing, get more aggressive in seeking out venues to perform. Don't be afraid to ask other higher up comedians if you can go on ahead of them or open up as you become more seasoned yourself. The peaks and valleys never seem to leave the life of a performer, but it seems most stand up comedians find that the joy they find in the peaks is worth the trips into the valleys. There is no soundproof advice when it comes to performing, people seem to develop their own unique style and the most important thing is to try and find your personal voice. The best stand up comedians are the ones that have mastered their "voice", meaning they've discovered the unique person or character that makes them funny on stage.
Now that you've planned out some material, gotten your feet wet performing, the next step is promoting yourself. The online world has changed a lot of things for stand up comedians, and have increased the number of ways for performers to promote themselves. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are all great ways to promote your comedy and show people what you're made of as a comedian. The particular venues of promoting seem to change frequently online, so do your best to keep up on the trends in comedy and entertainment. A personal website seems to be a necessity in today's world of stand up comedy. Additionally many stand up comedians have gained added notoriety by creating content uniquely for the Internet by creating, podcasts, blogs or filmed comedy skits online.
Hopefully this guide to becoming a stand up comedian has proved helpful in laying out a few of the fundamentals to this unique career choice. Like everything in the entertainment world there is no exact path, and it's up to each individual performer to find their unique way that works for them. In all honesty there is no one person's advice that will make or break you as a comic, if it's something you are truly passionate about you will stick with it and make it happen.
About the Author
Sean Green is veteran of the
LA comedy
scene while also hosting the popular podcast The Green Room with Sean Green. Watch his stand up comedy online at
http://www.seantgreen.com
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So the standard drum kit is made up of 3 toms. a snare drum a kick drum and cymbals and hi hat. The choice of mics can be very personal. As a general rule you will want mics with a good low frequency response for the floor tom and kick drum. So lets speak about the close mics, commonly a good quality dynamic microphone will be used on the toms a good choice would be MD421 or SM57 mics, both dynamic microphone, they are robust have good presence and can handle high sound pressure levels with ease. The snare drum mic choice again is personal many favour an SM57 or an Beta 57 microphone, a new comer is the i5 microphone, again all of these are dynamic mics. Kick drums often require a special microphone that has a built in eq curve which boosts the low frequency content and also has a presence peak to give the attack a clear boost. The hi hat often has it's own close mic which is often a small disphragm condenser mic. So thats close mics done, now you can consider the drum overhead mics.
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It is very important to check the phase of drum microphones to ensure that when they are mixed together that they are reinforcing instead of canceling low frequency sounds. This can be done by using phase inversion switches on the mixer or panning mics hard left and right and them summing them in central position and listening to the effect on the low frequencies. Ask yourself if the low end is reinforced or not when chosen pairs of mics are mono'd. When recording always leave sufficient headroom when recording drums as the peaks can often easily jump up 6dB higher than you might think once the drummer is performing. All of this plays nicely into later stages of production such as mixing and online mastering in a mastering studio.
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