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Making more of a living with the guitar business
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Making more of a living with the guitar business
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Started this discussion. Last reply by roland belloir Sep 8.
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- Which one of the following describes your involvement in music? (Check all that apply)
- Gigging and/or professional musician, Music teacher
- How many years have you been playing guitar?
- 10-20 years
- Which of these instruments do you own or play?
- Flattop steel-string acoustic guitar, Nylon-string guitar, Archtop guitar, Electric guitar, Mandolin
- The make and model of your guitar(s) and/or other instruments and gear.
- Taylor 814ce
Takamine EF75
Gretsch 6120-1959
USA Fender Stratocaster 1995
Garcia Classical guitar 1970
- What is your website address?
- http://www.myspace.com/guitarlancer
- What type of music do you like to play?
- Passionate about Fingerstyle guitar.
I'm well rounded in all styles of guitar.
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Posted on October 13, 2009 at 4:55pm —
WHo want to take some guitar lessons online.
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Posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:30am —
Wants to get more gigs
Posted on October 3, 2009 at 7:11pm —
I now teach online guitar lessons with skype if anyone is interested.
1. Get a free skype account at www.skype.com
2. email guitarlancer@hotmail.com to schedule an appointment
3. Have high speed internet an web cam
4. Be able to pay with paypal.
5. guitar ready!
All I ask is that you have a little experience already with the guitar.Be able play some chords and maybe a song, perhaps you've experimented with your finger… Continue
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 2:04pm —
Winfield contest
It was my first time competing in the fingerstyle guitar competition and I placed 4th! The competition consisted of 40 players who were all good players. There was a 1st round, where we each played 2 songs. Then there was a 2nd round for the runners up. I made it to the 2nd round but didn't do well enough to get my expected first place. But you can't always win. The guy who won has been in the contest for nearly ten years, and it was just my first… Continue
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 9:01pm — 2 Comments
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I am new for learning guitar from India. I love to play guitar, but I don't know how to. I request you for giving me some written lessons, please. I have read many intresting things 'bout you, so I think you will be helping me. I am preparing for having guitar lessons from my nearby guitar artist-Danish Crishtian. OK bye.
Trivedi Hardik
I don't teach. I do play alot of live shows though. I have 5 solo CD's and 1 DVD out, Many Waters, Love Song for Terra, Force of Nature, The Nature of Light, and the latest, Tree of Life. The DVD is a live concert with a half hour interview called Live at Cuyahoga Community College. I am also part of a "New Age" group project with native American flute, keyboards, percussion and electric and acoustic guitar called A Crown of Stars and I am the producer of the 26 guitar player CD Woodchoppers Ball, which is a benefit for The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless.
The Woodchoppers Ball is also a yearly live benefit concert that I put together held here in Northeast Ohio.
I do manage to make a living here in Northeast Ohio playing guitar and selling CDs and digital downloads. I do make more when out on the road but, for family reasons have decided to make a little less now and tour more next year and yes, I do all of my own booking and promotion.
If you'd like an idea of the kind of places I'm doing shows at just check out my Myspace page, www.myspace.com/brianhenkeguitar ,which has the most up to date schedule I have online.
I never make it to Nashville because there are so many guitarists there already scrambling to find work that it's just really hard to make any money. I'm not really all that interested in doing studio work for others, although I do take the work here when offered, which (studio work) seems to me to be a really good reason to be in Nashville.
I mean, I do know several guitarists who do really well there. Pete Huttlinger, Tom Shiness and others come to mind. I'm just glad that when I call a local winery for a gig here in Northeast Ohio that I'm not competing for the same gig with all of them too!
If I don't see you before then, I do hope to see you in Kansas next year. I have decided that if I don't get hired again for the festival, that I'll do the same thing as I did this year and compete in the contest at least one more time.
Brian
You're not going to ask me to loan you 10 bucks are you?
Seriously though, having just met you I think you're a really good guy. I also believe as does everyone who's heard you play that you're a really, really terrific player as well!
I didn't get to hear you at Winfield as much as I would've liked but, I have watched all of your videos here and got a pretty good idea of how you play.
Really clean, precise, well thought out arangements and most importantly (at least to me) played with alot of love!
I do wish there would've been more time to hang out at Winfield. It's times a bit overwhelming for me to be there. I know sooo many people I never get to see and hang with, that I like so much the time goes by in the blink of an eye. Combine that with the fact that I almost always have to take off early for a show somewhere I really need to get a clone!
Are you planning on being ther next year? I think you should for certain. That contest is really hard to call. You just never know what the judges are thinking at any given time.
Winning the contest can be a really big boost to someones career, which is one reason I decided to try it again but, alot of different things that have nothing to do with that or any other contest can affect it even more. Youtube, radio, TV, word of mouth...
Some who have won the contest have basically done nothing with it and others have taken it really far. I know many who havn't won or even ever entered it who are really succesfull either financially or artisically.
I mean, Don Ross won it twice, Pete Huttlinger came in 2nd once, came back and won it the next year, came back again and came in 2nd. There careers seem to be doing really great.
Both Stephen Bennett and Andy McKee never did better than 3rd (although Stephen did win the flatpick contest) and their careers seem to be doing really pretty great too.
The best I ever did was to tie for 4th. I still manage to make a living and get quite a bit of radio play anyway.
To sum it all up I guess I'd have to say that yes, it can be a good thing to win Winfield but, it's not anywhere near the most important thing to move a career. I guess sometimes maby the most important thing to bring back is the friendships with the other players and fans that last long, long after the trophy's and guitars have been handed out.
Please stay in touch!
Brian
Mark
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