Jobs

andrew the tuba player · Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:34 pm

Does anyone know where a high school tuba player could find a job playing in northwest Arkansas?

gregsundt · Post by **gregsundt** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:33 pm

Plan to do a lot of playing for free. Once you develop a reputation for musicianship and reliability, the paying jobs will find you.

andrew the tuba player · Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:13 pm

Yeah, I play (so far) in band class and in church where i usually do 2 solos on sunday and one on wednesday. So, yeah just curious.

andrew the tuba player · Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:14 pm

also, i was wondering if there were any brass ensembles near by that needed a tuba player. I'd really like to play with a smaller group (i checked the emsemble part, but they only have a few symphoines and millatary bands

)

Thomas Maurice Booth · Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:19 pm

Make some friends and form a brass quintet or a tuba/ euph quartet or any other kind of mixed ensemble. With the holiday season quickly approaching there is a lot of money to be made at churches and other functions.

TMB

Eric B · Post by **Eric B** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:17 pm

Thomas Maurice Booth wrote:Make some friends and form a brass quintet or a tuba/ euph quartet or any other kind of mixed ensemble.

There are plenty of opportunities in NWA. I graduated from the U of A in 1994. When I was in school I was in a brass quintet. Keep in mind that there are probably one or two student brass quintets in Fayetteville in addition to the faculty quintet, and woodwind quintets. We got our gigs by word of mouth. We played for graduations, Christmas parties and other functions.

I would take the advice of others on this forum. Start a group and accept some small invitations first: boy scout Christmas party, school events, etc. If you make a good impression on your audience, paying gigs will follow. Most importantly, have fun!

Best wishes!

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:11 am

ItÂ´s true: starting out, itÂ´s a great idea to just play for free on some occasions. Within few free gigs, the paying ones WILL show up.
Take those initial gigs (actually, take ALL your gigs, for several years to come,) as an opportunity to get free training / lessons from a public audience, and embrace the possibilities to do something you really enjoy as something worth extra effort.
ItÂ´ll show in your performance, and in both organiser and wallet, too, in the longrun. Been there, done that.

TubeNet

Jobs

Jobs

playing job