The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

020: The Many Facets of a Musical Career Today with Gail Fischler

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Gail Fischler is an MTNA Nationally Certified Teacher, and a past president of both Arizona State Music Teachers Association and Tucson Music Teachers Association. Gail currently teaches private piano, a pedagog and piano literature seminar, and community class piano at Eastern Arizona College and maintains an independent studio in Tucson. She collaborated on, Latin America, a volume of music with Neeki Bey of Piano Accents. She continues to focus on creating arrangements of folk music and original compositions based on musical heritages from around the globe. She is a contributor to The Piano Bench Mag, an eMagazine by Karen Gibson. Gail also runs Piano Addict, a website for piano students, teachers, and avocational players and The Musical Adjectives Project, an interactive Wiki to aid pianists and musicians in describing and understanding the emotions and character within repertoire. She is the inventor of the popular board game Musical Words which is based on the descriptives found on the Musical Adjectives Project pages.

 

Key Take Aways:
  • There are always many facets to a musical career
  • Usually, people make their assumptions about what it means to be in any one career, long before the actually get there and understand what it really means
  • Consistency is probably the single most important thing when it comes to curating a following online
  • There are so many different ways to pursue a musical career. Don't confine yourself to the expected norms of what a musical career looks like
  • Sometimes it really helps to get away from what you're working on, and to do something unrelated, to come up with a solution to whatever was bothering you
  • Don't be afraid to let go of something and head in a different direction, or cut back for a bit and take a breather from your projects

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    Recommended Book:

    "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott

    Learn more about Gail Fischler:

    PianoAddict.com

    The Musical Adjectives Project

    FaceBook

    Twitter: @pianoaddictblog

    YouTube

    Pinterest

    Google+

     

     

    If you would like to be considered for featured artist, email music submissions [email protected]

     

    Shownotes: modernmusician.co/020

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