I’ve been a big fan of Tarekith for a couple of years, not only does he give a lot of time to the the ALDJ forums as well as free effects plugins for Ableton, but he’s just posted what is possibly the best possible online guide to “playing live”.

It’s a great overview about what is required if you are about to play your first laptop/Ableton/fully live gig, and covers a lot of the things that many first timers forget and fuck up (and a lot of things i still get nervous about!).  This kind of advice only comes from experience (and you know what they say about only having experience right after you needed it right), so read up and take it on board.

It’s probably the best bit of free advice you will ever get.

Tarekith’s guide to playing live V1.o