I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas. Welcome to the You'll Hear it podcast.

Hey, I'm Peter Martin.

Today we're talking about how to get a gig and keep a gig. Very important.

They're both important, I guess. Yeah. If you get a gig, you want to keep the gig, right?

Ideally. So the first thing I think about actually has nothing to do with music, and that is personality. And that's basically being somebody that others want to work with. I guess we could look at a gig, like a solo piano gig,

and you might say, well, you don't need to get along with anyone with your personality,

but you still have to get along with the audience in some respects.

But a lot of times we're talking about getting a gig and keeping a gig.

It's interacting with other people, usually on the bandstand.

And so I think the same things that really are simple and work in life in terms of having

the kind of personality that people want to be around, somebody that's listening, somebody

that's contributing, somebody that's part of the conversation.

You can't be too inward thinking just to your own thing.

So I mean, develop your personality. If you've

got a good personality, just be confident and let all that out on the gig and then other people

are going to want to work with you. If you've got a crappy personality, maybe try to change

some things in your personality. Just like when you're working on your music and practicing,

you know, you're trying to improve

certain elements of your playing. I think it's the same thing with your personality, because it's got

such a big part of making music together. Yeah, I agree. And I think some people get this idea that,

oh, an artist is a tortured soul, a jazz musician is this dark figure that whatever. But you know

what? In reality, this is still a business

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