Concerts are difficult to shoot. I also started in concerts. What I found worked best was a combo of long exposure and flash, since the stage lighting is often not enough. You'll want to put the camera on manual focus, as they've already stated, and I recommend an external flash, but on-board works too. Set your aperture to it's widest (5.6 or a smaller number), the shutter speed will vary depending on the stage lighting, but for example I'll say 1/20th of a second. The flash will go off when you hit the shutter, which will freeze the action, then the camera will continue to soak up the available light for the rest of the exposure. This will result in a frozen subject with a bit of blur around them, to suggest movement.
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