I am looking for a city where the music scene's hoppin and the bass supply is low

[rivmiquiv]

I am about to graduate Highschool (Seattle area) and am still undecided as to what school I want to go to. I am looking to major in bass performance but I think that what matters more than the school, is the city. Ideally I would like to find a city that has a shortage of bass players and a really active music/club/session scene. Basically wherever I could find the most work. My most ambitious goal is to be a session player, but I would be happy to make a living playing at clubs or touring.

Any advice or knowledge relevant to the topic would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Dr_Funkdamental]

If you got the skills, the amount of bass players wont matter . I think thats almost an oxymoron really. If the music scene is poppin', there has to be some bass players to help make it poppin' lol.

[Sonicfrog]

One of my former guitarists moved to Austin for a four month job. Two plus years later... he's still there. He couldn't find a bass player, so now he's gone over to the low side and is now playing bass.

[TheBasicBassist]

Originally Posted by rivmiquiv

I am about to graduate Highschool (Seattle area) and am still undecided as to what school I want to go to. I am looking to major in bass performance but I think that what matters more than the school, is the city. Ideally I would like to find a city that has a shortage of bass players and a really active music/club/session scene. Basically wherever I could find the most work. My most ambitious goal is to be a session player, but I would be happy to make a living playing at clubs or touring.

Any advice or knowledge relevant to the topic would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sadly, being a session career musician is a dying career and only the cats who have been doing it since the 60's-70's are getting the real steady work. I realized this, unfortunately, three years into a music performance degree. If I was in your current position, I would get a degree in something that would get me a steady career and get an AMAZING private instructor because then you'd still become an amazing player - if not better than you'd be in College - and you'd have something to fall back on, should your band break up, there's not work, ect..

And last I read, Seattle had a SLAMMIN' music scene, that was about a year and a half or so ago. It depends on what style of music that you wanna play, though.

[rivmiquiv]

Where did you read that Seattle has a good music scene? Everywhere I'm hearing that it's really slow, and the only way to do it is to be an incredible jazz drummer

[TheBasicBassist]

Originally Posted by rivmiquiv

Where did you read that Seattle has a good music scene? Everywhere I'm hearing that it's really slow, and the only way to do it is to be an incredible jazz drummer

I, honestly, couldn't tell you. I read it about a year or so ago.