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How I did it: I said it took me 3 years because that's about how long it's been since I graduated college.
In reality I guess if it was since I started playing music, it'd be 20 years haha.
Anyway... here's how I did it:
First I gotta make it clear that I'm not a gigging musician. So I didn't end up being the next Kelly Clarkson (yet), but I managed to impress someone at a theater program for kids and they hired me to be their Summer music director. I got to write about 12 musicals, so that's about 50 songs (I had never written more than like, one song in my life before that), and it really kicked me into gear.
The pressure of writing 1 song a day for 4 days straight and producing a children-run musical every two weeks gave me no time to worry something wasn't good enough or freak out because I just had to get it done. And somehow, it came out. Music came out of me that I didn't know was in there, and by the end of the Summer, the director told me that in his 11 years of running the program he had never had anybody like me working there.
Talk about a confidence booster!
Along the same time of year, a friend of mine had friends who were starting a theater company in the area. He mentioned to his friends that I played piano and before I knew it I was asked to be their resident pianist.
While neither of those two things has paid enormous amounts of money, the children's theater camp kept my bills paid the entire summer I was there. And the theater company was a nice little bonus.
But yeah. So I guess my professional musical career is veering down the musical theater path for now. I'll be excited to see where it goes from there. Right now it's still a side venture, but I'm just excited to see how things happen. I'm trying to stop controlling my life and letting life take me where it's supposed to go.
Lessons & tips: If there's a particular genre of music you like, in my case, I've always been involved with theater, seek out jobs or people you can meet in that area.
Give people a chance to see your talents. I tend to downplay my abilities and don't show off. This isn't to say you should boast and rub it in people's faces, but if you're talented and you have something to offer, try to remember people will enjoy hearing what you do.
Resources: craigslist, personal networking
i’m at AMEB level 5 (applicants for a bachelors in performance need AMEB 7 at least) and have been studying mechanical engineering for two years (i kinda just fell into it),and have decided i want to be a musician. I have gotten a busking permit and will be busking for the the first time this week, and i’ve made a plan to get my bachelors in contemporary music in 4 years time. the only thing left now is to tell my parents (yikes!).
I must go do something useful with my life… meaning be more serious about my music. Been playing the (bass) guitar since I was 15, the past couple of years I’m so scared of performing that I’ve just kept the guitarplaying and singing all to myself. Must get more confidence and then take it to the stage someday. I cannot allow myself to not really go do something with this goal I’ve had for over 10 years… I need a good asskicking, write more songs, feel confident about singing and performing them, and then see where life takes me!
OneManArmy is drinking hideous amounts of tea
i gave up on this a couple years ago, tried to live a ‘normal’ life with a stable job, but its just not me, it could never work because i’m simply meant to be a professional musician. i’ll count this as done once i’m earning a substantial part of my income from it.
don’t ever give up on your dream…cuz it’ll find a way of coming back to you!!!
I love music, it’s the only thing I’m really good at. God gives everyone a gift and mine is music so I guess that’s what I’m supposed to do. I’m gonna go to Berklee in Boston, so if I make it in my fate will be sealed for that :)
OneManArmy is drinking hideous amounts of tea
i love the violin. i enjoy making music. however, the dedication and sacrifice it would take me to go pro just isn’t worth it to me. financially, i’ve decided to do something i enjoy that will get me some money, and then when i feel like it, i can play the violin
I don’t know what is stopping me. I’m seriously talented and everybody has always said I should go for it but I’ve always been the one doubting, or saying it will never work, or just assuming that it won’t. Why should I give up before I even try? Maybe something wonderful would happen.
Any thoughts on this? I am an intermediate-advanced guitarist in my early 50’s and would like to make a career change. I do not have a formal music school education and was wondering if this type of degree is required for being either a sound engineer or a recording musician.
I play woodwinds. I have worked in a music publishing firm. I have been on cds and perform regularly. Right now I am in Arizona in the pit orchestra of The Pajama Game playing reeds with the Arizona Theater Company. I have run and performed with a funk band. I am currently working on a jazz cd and a flamenco cd coming out in February ‘08. I am 33 and live in Philadelphia ‘burbs.
Baluka wants to grow an avocado plant
Start Cycling
Donate blood
Be nicer to people.
Build a mechquest trainer and build other trainers
Trace my family tree
get a new nickname that everyone calls me instead of my real name
fly up the corporate ladder, skipping steps
Build a bar in my basement
go completely vegan
start jogging
Weph wants to Graduate
pass the ASVAB test
Learn to play the piano
survive on 4-6 hours of sleep per night
make love in a jacuzzi
Go skydiving
Visit Uzbekistan
zen
try new foods
find true love
be more decisive
