was perfect for me.
Where I see the biggest differences are, I’ve of, “You’ve got to forget about school and get
never worked a job that wasn’t in music. I was out there and meet people and just hustle.” So
Moving to Nashville, I thought, well, my in school and I had scholarships, so I didn’t a lot of those people that are doing that, they’re
undergrad is in orchestral studies and music work in undergrad, I just went to school and going to bars, the gig scene on Broadway, and
education and conducting and arranging, played music, and any work I did was playing at playing as much as they can for who knows
and now I’m ready for the other half of that- a churches or corporate gigs so everything was what a night, maybe fifty bucks a night or
focus study on drum tech with a great teacher still music related. Then I moved to Nashville something, you know what I mean, just really
that’s toured the world and is a legend on his and was in school again, and I had a few gigs road dogging it. A lot of those guys have to
instrument. So, all of that shaped me into what before I graduated, then graduated and was wait tables on the side, or barista, or work in
I am now. I guess on the flip side of that I’ve able to be a full-time musician. retail. And there is nothing wrong with that,
talked to guys who are touring the world who
never went to school.
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it’s just a different perspective of what it looks
I bypassed the whole grind, I mean I was like. I don’t think there’s necessarily a right or a
grinding but in a different sense. The mentality wrong, but I think school can be really valuable,
December 2018
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