i think i mentioned in an earlier post that i'd be taking an audition for carnival cruise lines and possibly sailing over my winter break. well, that audition happened today, and i must say, i'm quite embarassed. basically what happened was i played about as well as an 8th grade girl and they offered me a job. colin won't tell you how bad it was because he's a nice guy, but it was bad. they e-mailed me the music an hour before the audition and i practiced it and got some of it sounding okay, but by the time they called, i was a little fatigued and hadn't gotten some of the high stuff worked out. when i was playing i was missing a lot of partials and when that happens, there really isn't much you can do to get the notes and rhythms. i think i'm sailing on the carnival ship 'pride' from dec. 17 - 30 or something like that, which, according to their website, travels from la to the mexican riviera and back.. i don't have a contract or anything but i think that's what he told me. anyways, i've got a hella ton of work to do before i fly out for this thing. i know it's a heavy reading gig and i seriously have to get my act together in order to not be fired. colin told me afterwards that i probably would have played a little better on my bass (and i think he's right), but still, that sh*t was unacceptable.
speakin' of gettin' it together, i really should head off to practiceland. i'm reading some quartets tomorrow morning with ellefson (one of the trombone profs), a doctoral student, and another masters student and i know some of the music is written in tenor clef for me. note: don't write tenor clef for bass trombone players because we don't like it. damn you telemann.
alwighty... hope you all are well and happy.
love,
james
ps - did i really just say colin was a nice guy???
4 comments:
I just thought you spelled "douche bag" wrong.
Honest mistake.
I'm not a nice guy. But, I won't go into detail of Yard's performance because I can at least be considerate. You know how you played for the audition, but you know that you can play that gig. So, it's really a moot point that you didn't sound your best.
...but it was kinda funny...
LOL!!!!
Oh, Old Man. That was funny.
I was confused by that statement (that Colin was nice), but I just figured that James was just so confused from the audition and subsequent job offer that he didn't know what was going on.
That's pretty sweet that you got a gig for a couple of weeks. Sounds like it could be fun -- plus, NO SNOW! Although, let's be honest, you're gonna miss snow. Yep. I said it.
Classic Pat, classic :)
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