16 Things All Gig Musicians Have Experienced

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S N A P C H A T: Brettybang | Eddy.Chen

[artsy_artist]

The worst is when they hire a pianist and don't have a real piano - all they have is a keyboard with like four octaves and no pedal

[yellowthesecond]

Don't you love how Drunk eddy still conducts in time

[higurashikai]

I played flute at a beach wedding and I couldn’t face the alter because the wind kept blowing into my instrument and completely killing the sound. And don’t get me started on my music stand; it was trying to fulfil its dream of being a kite.

[everythingemzy]

Brett is only getting better and better at the “I’m dead inside” expression

[shihasu]

-When they only hand music to you when you actually get there and you have to sight read everything and pray

[lazykat]

I was practicing my flute and some mom said “wOw your aMaZiNg at cLaRiNeT”

I was traumatized

[mikaelabeatrizbalaga]

What's worse is when you don't get paid enough for it...

[misaamane]

So I have a horror story from my friend (we’re flautists) so she was hired for a gig with four violinist, two cellists and one violists. When she got there they gave them the music. It was canon in d. There was no flute part. They had to play it on repeat for the whole of the wedding with four breaks only. If she wasn’t ‘playing they got mad at her and said they wouldn’t pay her at all, so she had to mime playing the entire time!

[couch_philosoph]

When you play somethin beautiful and still kinda hard classical piece and everyone just looks like this: 🙂.
Then you play some pop song adaptation and they lose their mind "oooh so much talent".

[DrTodd]

I was playing a wedding once in a quartet. The first violin who was also organizing the quartet could see the aisle and she said she'd tell us when we needed to stop playing. So, we start playing some piece and at some point, both her and the second violin stop playing and put their instruments down. The viola and I noticed they stopped playing and did the same. Ooops...it turns out the first and second violin just had several few measures of rests. Guess we should have discussed the official stop playing signal.

[pseudonym]

Wind blowing pages...the hardest fight i had as a pianist. They opened the windows behind me...

[justicewasserved]

2:14 I think Eddy forgot for a moment that he wasn't actually meant to be able to conduct

[KatyAdelson]

Lol, these are really relatable... xD Although, I once had the opposite happen regarding the "person who used to play an instrument" example. One of the best violinists in the state stopped for a moment and started listening to my playing. It was both super exciting and ultra nerve-wracking, and I started messing up a lot more than :/

[garykuovideos]

17. Totally. Impractical. Chairs.

Edit: OMG. Thanks for the likes, everyone! Hope your gigs are all awesome!

[seol]

When your school string ensemble has coincidentally played the EXACT SAME SONGS from number 3, over amd over again

[sabinelangeland]

These can also apply to dancers; I've tried doing a gig at an event, our "stage" was right in the middle of the bar, and the folks who were drunk joined in with too much enthusiasm.

[MoesTube]

When it's raining and they have no back up plan because they were too cheap to rent a tent and think asking you to sit under a tree like that makes it better.
1. There's more water dripping from the tree than falling from the sky.
2. The cost to repair my violin is more than what I'm getting paid for the gig!
So glad I don't do very many weddings anymore. When I do I ask for double what I charge for other gigs.

[tabaks]

That moment when you realize becoming a brain surgeon WAS an easier path.

[raph]

I've experienced a lot of this XD I remember my first gig, we screwed so bad, but everyone was drunk and couldn't tell. They said we were amazing, but any sober person would have noticed how bad it was lol! Learn to appreciate the drunk people watching the shows. ;D

[serteres]

I also love it when the drunken guest comes and congratulates you while you are playing, expecting that you will pay full attention, hold a conversation and even shake hands, all while you are playing....