Least favorite aspects - Musician Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I wasn't sure if I should call this a least favorite aspect, but it is something to be aware of before you jump in both feet to being a musician, and that is that the job of being a musician kind of never ends. You know, if you had a nine-to-five job, you could come home at five o'clock and not think about work anymore until the next day. Not so much as a musician. There's always things to work on. There's always just your own personal craft to improve. You should always be studying and practicing and outreaching, you know, that every musician just should always be doing. And anytime you're not doing it, there's going to be that cloud of guilt that says you're not practicing, and if you're not practicing, somebody else is, and they're getting better than you. Or, you know, you have that project you've been wanting to do, compose that song or make that arrangement or, you know, there's just always so much. So it kind of never ends. That's okay.
Video 2 Transcript
As of anything, there are some drawbacks. Sometimes to really, really get where you want to be in terms of your performance, it just requires a lot of time investment. You have to be really consistent. And being a typical musician, there's not always somebody there to make sure that you, hey, get to work sort of thing is cracking the whip. So you have to be very disciplined and in your consistency and how you're practicing, you're putting in good practice for long hours. I mean, that can get really, really tough. And sometimes I don't always achieve that, but every time that I do, I realize that it is worth it.
Video 3 Transcript
One of the things that is hard about being a musician is the schedule, and a lot of music careers have odd schedules. There's rehearsals that are often late in the evening, concerts that are late in the evening or on Saturdays, or just the fact that you're going to be practicing all the time and sometimes in weird hours of the day. So it's not an easy nine-to-five job, and sometimes I kind of wish that was the case, but then I think about not doing music and I think, meh, it's worth it.
