Help with hand shaking

Sometime ago i had my first performance, and i couldnt play the solo , because my hands were shaking and i barely could control them and hit the string.is there any way to avoid it?

Most likely you were just nervous.
Hey it happens to all of us from one time to another.

JUst remember the people that you are playing for aren't any better than you,
in order to be a proggresively better musican,you half to just deal with it.

You'll start to like it after a while.

I use to get "the shakes" when I was young,
but you learn to deal with it over time.

yo zep, i understand you completely, when i played in front of about a 150 people at a guitar center in june my hands were shaking my knees were so wobbly i almost fell down like 3 times especially while big bending. Luke is right that's just nerves and you have to play through it. it doesn't seem to affect me when i'm playing with people who i'm comfortable with. something i did when i got the shakes was to take my hand and slap it against my thigh a few times just to get the blood flowing in it again cause it goes dead cold.

Imagine that the audience's naked.
That will make you un-nervous.

don't make a mistake and imagine yourself naked. then you'll be back at sqaure one.

Yeah, probably it wont done no good, to think about me being naked
the problem is that when you are playing the solo, and then sudenlly your hand start to shake ,and you can't play... what do you do then?? you cant stop playing in front of 200 people...
maybe good thing is to improvise the solo, if i'm to nervous to concentrate on the original??

I am not nervous often, but recently I played solo acoustic at a friend's wedding and I had to sit thru the ceremony and then break into the 'recessional' piece. I started to flub it pretty badly and people could tell because the piece was Here Comes the Sun. This was a real bummer, but I just kept at it and no one said anything.

But...when you are soloing, no one knows what you INTEND to do. So, no matter what you do, pretend you meant to do it. If all you can muster is shaking hands, just play some long shaky notes and pretend you are really into it.

Bluffing works onstage big time. I once kicked my chord out of my guitar and finished a 3 minute song before I could plug it back in. I pretended to play the whole song while I was unplugged. No one noticed except the bass player. Even the drummer didn't know.

So, just fake it.

damn good advice. that happened to me when I played For the Love of God at my school talent show. Some parts where I was not so confident would make me nervous, but I played it the best I could, even threw in some improv because my mind drew a blank. That was my second performance, and I was nervous as hell. I get horrible stage fright. In the end, it went well, though I know I could have played it better.

It's great to hear that i'm not the only one with this problem
i hope i just will be more confident in the future ...