I can't speak much to the actual details of how to play a musician. While I've always loved the ideas, it's just never been a character concept that I think I could do well with. However, as someone who does really enjoy reading posts from the more musically-inclined types, I feel like there's one thing you should try to keep in mind:
Always be mindful of your surroundings and delivery.
Let me use a recent example of what I mean. In the Quicksand a few nights ago, during a pretty busy time, there was a musically-inclined character that was performing a song. The song itself was very nice, and the lyrics were well-written (or well-translated into an Eorzean context if it wasn't an original piece).
However, the song was rather long with a chorus repeated 3-4 times and it was put into /yell line by line in very short succession. Chat was already scrolling hard in the area, and when the song started, it became unfollowable for anything that wasn't /yell. Several people instantly started to complain in brackets about the chat spam, and I suspect many people either used /blist or turned off /yell entirely.
Context is everything. If that same instance had occurred perhaps in a much less crowded, active area or in a planned event, it may not as been as seemingly ill-received. Likewise, if the delivery of it had just been changed -- a few repeated choruses taken out, several lines of the song emoted at once instead of line by line, done in /em or /say as opposed to /yell, etc. -- then it may have went over better. As it was, I fear that it actually discouraged many people nearby from interacting or acknowledging it and potentially from the roleplayer themselves, if the people that used /blist to deal with the chatscroll never thought to remove them from it afterwards.
This isn't meant to be any kind of hate-posting towards musician types that actually type out the lyrics to their songs, of course. I actually really love it when people take the time to be creative and do these sorts of things. This is just an anecdote and spot of advice from the audience perspective of how it can be received sometimes if you're not careful.
Always be mindful of your surroundings and delivery.
Let me use a recent example of what I mean. In the Quicksand a few nights ago, during a pretty busy time, there was a musically-inclined character that was performing a song. The song itself was very nice, and the lyrics were well-written (or well-translated into an Eorzean context if it wasn't an original piece).
However, the song was rather long with a chorus repeated 3-4 times and it was put into /yell line by line in very short succession. Chat was already scrolling hard in the area, and when the song started, it became unfollowable for anything that wasn't /yell. Several people instantly started to complain in brackets about the chat spam, and I suspect many people either used /blist or turned off /yell entirely.
Context is everything. If that same instance had occurred perhaps in a much less crowded, active area or in a planned event, it may not as been as seemingly ill-received. Likewise, if the delivery of it had just been changed -- a few repeated choruses taken out, several lines of the song emoted at once instead of line by line, done in /em or /say as opposed to /yell, etc. -- then it may have went over better. As it was, I fear that it actually discouraged many people nearby from interacting or acknowledging it and potentially from the roleplayer themselves, if the people that used /blist to deal with the chatscroll never thought to remove them from it afterwards.
This isn't meant to be any kind of hate-posting towards musician types that actually type out the lyrics to their songs, of course. I actually really love it when people take the time to be creative and do these sorts of things. This is just an anecdote and spot of advice from the audience perspective of how it can be received sometimes if you're not careful.
