last minute fill-in gigs.

[One_Dude]

I posted a after gig report last night earlier in this thread. In a nutshell; I took the gig, charts were good, and it was a success. Couldn't have done it without the charts however.

Thump on,

One_ Dude

 

[bound'n'blocked]

I'm pretty confident in my ability. If I feel I can do it I'd take the gig. I had a drummer friend call on Thursday afternoon and ask if I was available for Saturday. Sent a picture of the song list. We did manage a two hour run through on Friday of some of the songs, but I could have done it without it.

Stuff like that shows me how far I've come over time.

BnB

 

[Bob_Ross]

I do them all the time, and with charts provided, I'd jump all over it. No charts? The less lead time I get, the more expensive I get.

I’m all about jumping all over it, that’s pretty much what being a Professional Musician *is* in my experience: Here’s the day/date/time, here’s the dress code, here’s what you need to bring, here’s what it pays, be there.

But that’s presuming there are charts.

For the No Charts gigs, I’m the opposite of (or perhaps slightly tangential to) Pac-Man: The more time you want me to spend prepping for the gig the more expensive I get. So if I only get 12 hours notice but you trust my ears, I’m practically a bargain. If I only get 12 hours notice but there’s 6 hours worth of work learning new tunes in advance, my rate goes way up. And if I get two weeks notice but there’s *still* 6 hours worth of work required, you don’t get a discounted rate.

Not surprisingly, the bulk of my short-notice gigs have charts