You are so right. Great post.
Happy New Year to you .
Playing tuba professionally
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Roger Lewis
- pro musician
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Hi Lee
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S Thompson
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FarahShazam
- 4 valves
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- Joined: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:05 pm
You want to know the Chishams' secret to success?
We got married while still in college and went from working one crappy job to another. We both finally graduated college and both of us had office jobs. We were completely miserable working 9-5.
So, we started looking at jobs in a DC military band. We practiced every single chance we got. At 6am, at noon (no eating lunch) and after work from 6pm-9pm. On the weekends, we would try to put in 5 hours a day and "relax" the rest of the time.
After a YEAR of working our butts off, I found a spot and we moved to DC.
The ONLY reason we are making enough money in music is because we both have jobs. You can make it as a single person, but it is more of a challenge.
If you are dedicated (and sometimes luck comes in to play), you will find a way to eat and pay bills. If you want to make money, music is typically not the place to do it. Even teaching privately is HARD WORK.
farah
We got married while still in college and went from working one crappy job to another. We both finally graduated college and both of us had office jobs. We were completely miserable working 9-5.
So, we started looking at jobs in a DC military band. We practiced every single chance we got. At 6am, at noon (no eating lunch) and after work from 6pm-9pm. On the weekends, we would try to put in 5 hours a day and "relax" the rest of the time.
After a YEAR of working our butts off, I found a spot and we moved to DC.
The ONLY reason we are making enough money in music is because we both have jobs. You can make it as a single person, but it is more of a challenge.
If you are dedicated (and sometimes luck comes in to play), you will find a way to eat and pay bills. If you want to make money, music is typically not the place to do it. Even teaching privately is HARD WORK.
farah