touring Broadway shows (minor rant)

[Lee Stofer]

Exactly. I would think of someone that only plays one style of music as being like an actor that only knows one character type to play. In fact, when I go out as an electric bassist or bass trombonist, etc., I think of myself being an actor that is playing the part of a bassist or bass trombonist. Can I convince the audience that I am that person? Whether using a tuba or anything else, you should study how to play the part convincingly. As a tuba player playing a commercial bass line, you are sort-of like an actor that is playing a character who has disguised himself as someone else, a little more complicated, but certainly do-able.

[PaulTkachenko]

As Lee said ...

Hint to performance majors - if you want to work, develop skills that not everyone else possesses.

Top tip.