Welcome, welcome to my apartment. It's good to see you here. And welcome to the introduction to the unit on rehearsing. So here's the thing, this is not the stage, we're not at the stage, I do have a microphone, I do have a mic stand, as you can see, but this is not the stage yet. This is my apartment because this will be your apartment, not this actual apartment, hopefully. I hope I'm gonna stay here.

But you will be doing this in your own apartment. So rehearsing is the name of the game. Now, most comedians rehearse in one of two ways. They either rehearse in their own mind. And like me, maybe at home with a mic or a recording device, which you definitely have, you can use your phone, or they rehearse on stage by getting on stage and just going for it. A lot of the time.

That's actually what I do also is I get on stage and I just try material out. But since this will be your first time on stage, and since you're going to be doing five minutes at a time, you're going to actually try this out in your house first so you don't have to get a mic stand. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to link in In the description of this episode, and lesson, a link to Amazon so you can pick up basically this mic stand and a microphone if you want. You can even plug your microphone directly into your phone and your recorder. And go ahead and try your material out. Why is this helpful?

Well, it's obviously helpful because you get to move around with a mic stand, you get to see how the mic moves, you get to feel the weight of it. Most places you're going to go to we're going to have a mic and a mic stand. It's really one of the one of the few things that people feel they need to have when they do comedy. Of course, you don't have to all you need, like I said in the first bit is yourself and an audience. But you can order these things you don't have to when I first started doing comedy, and for many years, I didn't own any of this equipment. I just used my phone or when I first started doing it back in 2002.

I literally just use the voice memo recorder. You want to listen to it. You want to record it, you want to listen to it back. That's the name of the game. When it comes to rehearsing. You want to listen you want to record you want to listen back.

You want to do that over and over and over again, the same material. The point is this, internalize your material. You don't want to over prepare. It's strange because when you see comedians, especially new comedians, they write their jokes, they really want their jokes to be successful. And they over prepare, they come in a lot. They do this when they, they, they try to memorize every single word.

I'm not going to have you memorize every single word, it's really difficult to do that. What's important to understand though, is to internalize the parts that are very particular that are very particular to get the words correct. And you'll know those parts in your own bits in own material. You'll have edited them by now you'll have them right in front of you, and you're going to read them very slowly and record you reading them, then you're going to listen back to it and internalize those words. This eventually will get to a point where you can speak extemporaneously and you'll have internalized all of your material. So, we're going to talk a little bit about how to do that in these lessons.

We're going to talk about pacing We're going to talk about how to rehearse and where to rehearse and things like that. But it's important to understand that I won't be going over too much about how to use the mic or the mic stand or any of this that will be for the intermediate course. For the beginners. This will be about how to record yourself how to listen back to your material, how to improve it, and then how to eventually prepare yourself mentally for getting on stage to do your first five minute bits.