Baptism By Fire!!

[IanJ]

Well I am about to jump head first into solo gigging. The only previous gigging was done with my HS band and I actually need to get paid real money instead of the occasional gift card for Kroger's.
I'm moving to Philadelphia at the end of August and I need a bit of money for expensive college tuition. Hopefully I will be able to do some kind of workstudy thing for extra money but, as a wise man said to me once, "You get paid for what you know." They way I see it with the right maneuvering I may be able to use my 13-14 years of musical knowledge in a way were I can get a good bit of money to help me out.
What I would like to know is how should I go about jumping in like this? All I have is a Sax. To broke for mics and such...
WHat songs sound good soloed on an alto?

[DanY]

Good luck getting gigs as a solo sax player... you'll need it!
Seriously, your best chance of getting paid to play solo will be busking.

[garyinla]

What are you going to do for tunes? If you play from approx 7pm to 11pm that is 4 sets. Figure at least 40 minutes a set, that meansyou need at least 10 tunes if not more. I dont know how long you can stretch a tune playing solo but 4 minutes would be an eternity.


So that means you need 40 tunes, maybe more like 60+, unless you are going to play the same tunes repeatedly.

Do you have 40+ tunes memorized or are you going to read them out of a book?

Im just curious.

[Vortex]

I agree, busking is probably your best bet.