How Competitive Is Nashville? My Thoughts
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2024
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Wanted to share my thoughts on this for anyone out there thinking about throwing their hat in the ring! Drop a comment on your thoughts on this topic below!
I’m glad to see a young man’s perspective. I’m also fairly sure we have mutual acquaintances😅 I just subscribe so I can catch up on your content
Tim, you’re totally right about everything. I love living in Nashville and there’s lots of opportunity here. You need to be great at your instrument AND have a great personality. It’s the magic combination. Getting out there and meeting people face to face is key. Really dig your channel bro. Thanks for everything 🤙🏻
Agree all the way, thanks for watching and leaving a comment man, I appreciate the support! I’ll see you around!
@ yessir! All the best my dude!
I was in Nashville for Thanksgiving, joining family who are big Tennessee football fans for their game, and caught a couple of bands on Broadway. The talent level there is off the charts. I saw one band, at Dierks Bentley’s bar, that was simply amazing. The guitarist (everyone in the band, but focusing on guitar here) wasn’t just incredibly good at the instrument, but also engaged the audience, effortlessly switched from one genre to another, and had perfect chemistry with the rest of the band. If that is typical then making a living in that city definitely requires a very talented performer at every level.
Totally, Nashville is full of amazing musicians! You definitely need to bring your A-game.
Sound advice Tim. Actually, I think your key points are applicable to most any profession. I’ve felt for a long time now that career success and just life day to day is all about relationships. How you treat people. How you behave and present yourself to the world goes a long way towards finding success.
Just to add to the above, I have heard tons of great, sucessful musicians say rhese same things during interviews. Being able to play is a given, but beyong that, being professional and being a good hang is much more important than being a virtuodo
You are absolutely right, that goes for any industry!
❤ the intro bit you played was so soothing
I like the advice youre sharing here even though I have no intention of playing guitar in nashville somehow i could draw parallels show up best foot forward practice makes perfect interpersonal relationships make deals and moves and never count yourself out
I’m glad you enjoyed the intro! Thanks for watching and glad you still found it insightful!
Thanks for expressing your personality and guitar playing.
I am an old guy who is happy playing my little accordion at a barbershop and small restaurants.
There are lots of places to play.
I appreciate you watching and the comment! Thank you!!
Good video Tim. Advantages, reliable, punctual, sober, good connections, own a van, being multi-instrumental, funny, good entertainer, chauffers license, good looking, rich parents, lots of gear, skilled songwriter, studio experience, good role model.
Thanks! You've pretty much summed up the competition, haha!
Tim, that's some great advice and sooo true in many different cities as well.
I appreciate that and the watch Curtis!
Well said Tim Always gotta be prepared , stay humble and never burn a bridge !!
Those bridges are important!! Thanks for watching Jeff
I appreciate your talk here. Thank you
I appreciate you watching!
Good advice Tim, one thing else that could help anyone's career is to network with everyone, not just musicians but bar owners/ management/booking and talent agents, soundmen, everyone even remotely associated with record companies, music stores, journalists. I've always said that a person can't have too many dog friends, the same thing applies to networking, you never know who's going to help you out so the more the better.
I agree, the bigger your community the more chances you got, that’s including everyone!
Dream scenario - gig Nashville in spring/summer and Key West in the winter!
Now that sounds like a good deal!
Great advice man, you hit all bullet points. I'm on the fence about this and laid it out simple and clean. I'm a Bassist and I'll be visiting in the new year. Thanks again. 💪👍🙏🎼🎵🎵💯☕️😎
Thanks, glad it helped! Nashville is definitely competitive, but with the right attitude you can make it! Enjoy your visit!!
I can" imagine a better job explailing it. Very good video. Old time honky tonk piano player here, up in the rockies. Thanks again
Thank for that! I’m glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching. Keep on rocking!!
Your hitting it on the nail Tim...
Thank you!
Exactly! You want someone you can GET ALONG WITH!
Absolutely!!
There will always be someone on the rung above you. That person sees the person above him. It’s easy to always feel like you’re failing. If you’re still in the race, you aren’t failing.
It’s okay to celebrate your progress so far. Being proud of your progress won’t end it.
Hating yourself because you are “failing” won’t change anything. Keep your hands on those strings and keep at it. You will get better.
Your ascent up the ladder WILL NOT look like you think it will. You can miss the fact that you’re succeeding because your situation is different than what you thought it’d be.
People who hang in there no matter what are the ones who succeed.
Agree with this 100%! Thanks for dropping your advice!!
😊I love my Tennessee
Thank you Tim. Wish u the Best 😂
Thanks for watching and the comment!
Interesting video, is that a moonswatch? 😊
Yes it is!
I am friends with a lot of musicians and can say I don’t hear a lot of complaints between musicians. The majority I hear is more venue problems or nasty tour managers ext.
I agree that is a problem for a lot of people!
After 15 years in/out and living for 7 in Nash, I can tell you it’s constantly growing like anything you ever saw sans maybe NYC. The music revolution is thick, like Austin, Seattle, Macon and other regions. If you move to Nashville, A. The people are usually amazing, but be ready for getting cut off in traffic, be ready to calculate taking two and a half hours over your eta to arrive, make sure your wallet is thick and don’t talk much during a show at the bluebird or when at auditions! Oh yea, did I mention the traffic? ;) Just dial into lightning 100 and check their live on green. You will be ok. ✅
He’s got the traffic right! Worst part about living in Nash 😂
I hear everyone mention traffic here. I don’t find the traffic to really be that bad (for a city) But I came from Seattle. Maybe that’s why. I’d take Nashville traffic any day.
Not that I'm a guitar player or moving to Nashville. Do you think knowing the Nashville Number System before relocating there would be beneficial?
Really enjoy your videos.
It would give you a head start! But I didn’t learn it till I got here
There is plenty of room at the top - but not enough to sit down.
It’s a tough biz!
Awesome..
Thanks for watching!
Andy Wood terrifies me but I really just get inspired to try harder.
I hear you!
Do you like the PRS amp?????
Love it! Really cool flavor I didn’t have before
Competitive comradery is what it’s all about.
Agreed!!
Old Soul advice!
Thank you!
UA-cam has told me that nashville is desperate for guitar players.
👍
There's always been a lot of extraordinary talent in Nashville, but there's also a lot of average talent as well and a lot of terrible talent. So dont let the guys like Guthrie Trapp and Bukovac intimidate you.... FACT: Neither one of those guys EVER play on Lower Broadway at any of those Bars. Bukovac works in the studio scene. Trapp plays at The Underdog every Monday I think. Then they may play more high end places like The City Winery, The Basement, 3rd and Lindsley, etc or they play gigs on the road with different artists or to promote their own instrumental albums... Guthrie played lower broad heavily in the 90's and some in the early 2000's.
I would like to CAUTION anyone who is thinking about moving to Nashville to sing, play guitar or any other instrument...Don't think it's going to be easy. It wont. It's actually more difficult now then ever because there are more musicians than ever playing down there.
You may get lucky out of the gate and get s gig or two... if that happens, JUMP on it and do your best and LEARN and be prepared. Have your gear READY (pedal board, guitar, guitar cases, amp, hand trucks, etc..) Have your "system" worked out ahead of time and be ready to gig. The good thing about Lower Broad is everyone is in the same boat... All trying to work and stay booked. So most musicians are friendly to each other, but nothing will turn other musicians against you faster then if you talk a bunch of crap about yourself (put other musicians down) and you cant back it up with actual talent. There are tons of musicians like that in Nashville. They talk a big game and don't realize they themselves are at an average or below average level.
Lower Broad is the "Great Equalizer" it eliminates the majority of newcomers to Nashville. If you want to test just how much of a real musician you are... give it a shot, but be ready.
I would also advise taking multiple trips staying all day long going to every single bar watching bands all day and all night before you ever think about moving to Nashville.
Thousands of musicians have moved to Nashville only to find they can't hang with it and end up just getting a job and not playing anymore or they move right back home.
GOOD LUCK!
Tom Buc is a bad back stabber !!
Timbo....
Jimmy
Has AI had a negative impact on your wallet yet? Also, do you do studio work for commercials as a studio musician for jingles? Thank you. :)
Not yet! And I work in the studio really just with my band!