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Freelance PSA #2: Taping Parts
Freelance PSA #2: TapingĀ Parts
The stage! The lights! The audience! The life of a gigging musician! Exciting! Travel the world! Create a network of fellow musicians in every city and town and region! This is all true but there is a less glamorous underside to the exotic life of a freelancing musician. This underbelly side of the business, people do not see or even think about. This dark side of the musical arts, althoughā¦
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Freelance PSA #1: Time
Freelance PSA #1:Ā Time
Time. Time should be a friend of the musical freelancer, but too many times Time is viewed as the enemy. āThere isnāt enough TIME.āāWhat TIME is the gig?āāWhat TIME should I get there?āāWhat TIME should I leave for the gig?āāCan I play in TIME?āāDo I have good TIME?ā Many of these questions do not get asked enough by many people freelancing as musicians. Iām going to leave the more musicalā¦
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DMA Update, Spring 2022
DMA Update, SpringĀ 2022
Well, hello everyone! It has been a while since Iāve written anything or given any update to those I donāt regularly run into anymore. I donāt peruse FaceBook anymore because I just found it depressing to discover people that I know are actually racist bigots and were hiding their true self from our interactions. So, I left FaceBook to just concentrate on my studies and music. I kept my FBā¦
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NEWS! (of the life changing kind)
NEWS! (of the life changingĀ kind)
Well, I guess it is high time to let this personal news begin to scamper out into the wilderness. I have a pretty darn big announcement to make, so let me get right to it by knocking down some of the āwhat could it beā thoughts you may be having at this moment. The news is NOT: Another pregnancy. We are happy with out two beautiful children. Adding a third would damn near be impossible toā¦
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Recital, Feb. 23rd! 7:30pm!
Recital, Feb. 23rd!Ā 7:30pm!
Iām very excited and happy to announce that on Tuesday, February 23rd at 7:30pm, I will be presenting a joint recital with my pal and radio co-host, Matthew Altizer. Although on this recital, we wonāt be playing a piece together, we have a stellar program of really interesting and fun music for you! You can view this recital LIVE by going to the recital page for the Butler Arts Center: Duckwallā¦
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2020 Was No Fun. Let's Look Ahead to '21!
2020 Was No Fun. Letās Look Ahead toĀ ā21!
Well, what a year. Like a stalled out hurricane hitting the coast, 2020 arrived, stayed for a while, dumped on all of us, and is finally moving on. Or more succinctly, we are moving on to 2021! Before I fully embrace 2021, Iām going to pull some positives from 2020. We all could write pages and pages on bad things that happened and we could write even more pages about the good things that DIDNāTā¦
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Keep Indy Creating Relief Fund
Keep Indy Creating ReliefĀ Fund
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Pandemic Practicing
Global Pandemic.
Stay-at-Home Orders.
Gigs Receding Into Oblivion.
Oh My!
What are we to do? How can we go from playing rehearsals or concerts 4-5 times per week to playing nothing? How will we keep our chops up and running? And WHY should we keep our chops up and running if there are no gigs on the horizon?
Well, to quote my friend Jim Pugh, we practice today so our practicingā¦
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Freelancing 2020 and Beyond
Freelancing 2020 andĀ Beyond
A full indoor wedding gig during COVIDā¦a bad decision.
It is hard to know where to start when discussing the *new* freelancing situation many of my musical colleagues and I find ourselves. We have been put in a near impossible position to choose between our financial livelihood and our health and well-being. I realize that musicians and artists are not the only people having to make this terribleā¦
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Forced Vacation: Week 3 and 4
Forced Vacation: Week 3 and 4 How is the time going by so slowly AND so fast?
I sat down to write this blog around April 10th, now it is April 20th. Where did the time go? I wanted to write a blog post a week about this new paradigm in my freelance career, yet I can hardly seem to find the time to do it!
Where does the time go?
I know everybody has different situations and different responsibilities during this āshelter-in-placeā moment in our world, but one thing thatā¦
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Here is a new scale sheet that we can work on during our āForced Vacationā!
Ā ii-V-I Ā Ā is so much fun!!!
ii V I scales ā SCORE
Forced Vacationā¦New Scales! Here is a new scale sheet that we can work on during our 'Forced Vacation'! ii-V-I Ā Ā is so much fun!!! ii V I scales - SCORE
Freelance Notebook: Week Two
Well, how is everybody doing? I hope that everyone is finding projects to do, books to read, and music to explore. Above all I really do hope that everyone stays healthy and as positive as possible.
The most interesting thing that I have found during this ānew eraā, is that I find myself overwhelmingly exhausted at the end of the day. Other than a walk or two with the family, I havenāt left theā¦
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Social Distancing Warm-Up (w/DOCS!)
Ā Please download these two documents to play morning warm-ups with me!
Iām all set up, ready to go for the beginning of my Forced Vacation Morning Warm-Ups! I hope to do this more often than not, and I hope you join me whenever you are able!
These 2 documents are the two I will be using, please feel free to download it, print it, and use it for our times together!
Forced Vacation Warm up ā SCORE
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Social Distancing Trombone Warm-Up
Keeping up a schedule is not easy. Iām trying to keep my kids on a school day schedule (read about THAT adventure here), but keeping myself on a schedule is a different story. In order to get myself motivated, showered and dressed, Iām starting a
TROMBONE WARM-UP Facebook LIVE session!!!!!!!
This is taking place at 10am EST on my FaceBook music page: Richard Dole Music
Wonāt you join me? Clickā¦
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Pandemic Parental Pedagogy
Teaching at home due to school closures while a health emergency rises globally is a scenario Ā I never thought Iād have to worry about five and a half years ago when I became a parent.
Yet, here we are.
We are 4 days into our āAt-Home Learningā lifestyle and we are doing A-OK! No problem here at all! Griffin, age 5, and Ellington, age 3 are well behaved beautiful angels. They never talk back,ā¦
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Coronavirus Collection
As long as we listen to and heed the advice of the health professionals, the Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization, we can get through this as calm, rational, and informed citizens.
I am not a medical professional, but I trust medical professionals and the advice and information they provide.
Each day there are more articles, more information (and dis-information), and questions/concerns put out there about the COVID-19 global pandemic that make figuring out what to do, how to do it, and what to KNOW more and more difficult! I wanted to compile a quick reference list withā¦
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Amid all of the worry, panic, and āsocial distancingā we find ourselves in, I thought it was perhaps a good idea to begin to focus on all of the positive things that can happen during the week or two (or three) we freelancers have off of work. I think Iāve wallowed in my own self-pity long enough. Itās time to turn this energy Iām putting into worrying about lost work into some actions and projects that will be beneficial when all of this is over.
In addition to all of the extra parenting with Stacy Iāll be doing (both my kids ages 5 and 3 are home for the next 3 weeksā¦), Iām going to break up my isolation by trying to better myself in four ways:
Practicing
Reading
Listening
Writing
I want to come out of this āForced Vacationā with some embers in the fire. I want to hit the ground running when the social distancing is lifted and gigs, rehearsals, heck just regular life is reinstated.
Hereās a brief rundown of what Iām putting together for myself to do in order to keep occupied these coming weeks:
I have all my horns ready to go at a moments notice!
Practicing: Lotās of practicing will be happening in the coming weeks. I have a bass trombone recital scheduled on December 8th at Butler University (please come on out!), so I plan on getting my tempos and phrases together so I can get the edited piano music to my pianist ASAP. Iāll also be learning/relearning some jazz standards. Of course Iāll be practicing all modes of my scales all over the range of each horn. Although I donāt plan on taking any orchestral auditions in the near future, Iāll mix in some of the top 20 bass trombone orchestral excerpts, because why not! Itās fun!
This app, TonalEnergy, is great! I try to use it at least 25-30 minutes each practice session each day. So far, Iāve only missed 2 days in 2020.
Reading: Each year I set goals in the app/website āGoodreadsā. This year I set a goal to read 40 books. So far Iām up to 12. This break will present a nice opportunity to sit and get some serious reading done. Iāve been going back and forth between some lighter/fun books and some heavier political or intense fictions. I try to mix it up, but maybe during this time, Iāll dig into the presidential biographies that have been piling up! Of course Iāll be keeping up with the daily news by reading portions of the NYTimes, The Guardian, Reuters and NPR.
Someday, Iāll get through all of these. Better get to it!
Great books ready to go on the Kindle!
Someday, Iāll get through all of these. Better get to it!
Listening: This category is two-fold.
First Iāll be listening to some great music I need to know. Some of the music will be new releases I receive as host of a weekly jazz radio show āHave You Heardā, some of the music will be of artists I want to get to know better. Iāve created a āForced VacationāĀ playlist on Spotify and I invite you to add music to it! I plan on listening to a bit of everything!
Secondly, Iāll be listening to and catching up with some amazing podcasts! There is so much great material out there, itās sometimes hard to choose where to start, but I can guarantee Iāll be keeping up with Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett Or Leave It, Stay Tunes with Preet, 1A, and Fresh Air. This is a lot to take on, but if there is some extra time, Iāll throw in an episode of 1619, The Wilderness, or Hardcore History.
Writing: This is also a two-fold plan!
First, writing with words. Big words. With this blog. I intend to write here about freelancing, trombone playing in general, parenting and perhaps other random thoughts that I just want to write about.
Iāll also be writing more music. I want to expand some of the tunes Iāve written and start building a ācatalogā of original music for the various ensembles I work with. I also have some ideas for new projects Iāll need to write for, and Iām quite excited about actually having the time to do that!
Ā Although Iām losing work over the next 3 weeks (as of 3.14), I have plenty to keep my mind and curiosity busy so that when this COVID-19 isolation is over, Iāll come out of it a much improved musician and person!
Thanks scary virus for being a catalyst to better my life!
Ā A positive take on the canceling of gigs! How we get through this is what matters! Amid all of the worry, panic, and 'social distancing' we find ourselves in, I thought it was perhaps a good idea to begin to focus on all of the positive things that can happen during the week or two (or three) we freelancers have off of work.