Hi Rory, thx for your nice comments about my video! Regarding your request for the topic of transferring practice room gains to the stage, that is certainly a worthy topic & I have been thinking about it. Do you have my Practice Like The Pros book--in there is my exercise about the "shadow tone", how to listen for it & use that perception to improve tone quality. I would also say to practice in an acoustically dead room, that way you'll always sound better on the gig (kind of like swinging with 2 bats as a warmup). There are other things you can do also. If you want to work on it with me, we could do it online with Skype--see my website for details. All best! ST