Here is a gig vlog about the first time I played a Polka gig

This was a crazy gig to get called for but I learned a ton on it. I got sent the song list with plenty of time before the gig so I started listening to and learning as many tunes as I could. Most of the original keys were easy Bb or Eb but a week or two before the gig I noticed on the song list that this band does them in different keys like E or A. I scrambled to learn them in those keys and ended up writing a "cheat sheet" that just had the first few bars in the right key so I could reference it. Usually once I heard the first few notes of the tune I would remember how it sounded and then it was just a matter of getting through it in a harder key lol.

We only ran through a handful of the tunes at the pregig rehearsal so some of the songs in this video we're playing for the first time together. I had so much fun though. I'm really enjoying playing all types of gigs right now and I'm slowly refining my process for learning new music and playing it on a gig. I think that's a super important skill for me to learn (and hopefully speed up over the next few years). A lot of you have been asking for me to make more longer form gig vlogs so I'm going to try and keep doing that. Thanks for watching❤

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