How Do I Earn a Living as a Musician In 2024? | Answering Your Questions and Comments!

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💥 In this video I will address a question from a viewer, regarding earning a living as a musician in 2024. It's not easy, but it can be done!
00:00 Intro
00:50 Challenges of working in the arts
01:25 How my upbringing led to a career in music
02:32 Yes, I played in a band! :)
03:29 How a health issue changed everything for the better
04:30 Turning a disadvantage into a new career
06:16 Teaching
06:34 Studio work
07: 11 Wedding gigs and Theater gigs
08:17 Lyle Mays book and Launching a KZfaq career
10:29 Final thoughts
‼️ New tutorials are coming EVERY WEEK! Comment down below and let me know what you would like to learn!
💥 pierrepiscitelli.com
📘 Books I’ve authored /co-authored:
📙www.amazon.com/Music-Lyle-May...
📙www.amazon.com/Eberhard-Lyle-...
📷Gear that I used in this video:
Yamaha CP40
Yamaha MG12XU
Yamaha HS5 (S2)
MacBook Pro (Running LPX and FCP X)
Garritan CFX Piano VST
Sony ZV-E10
iPhone 14 Pro
Sennheiser MKE600 Shotgun Microphone
Neewer NL660 Lights (X2)
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@ncmblur1379 18 күн бұрын

Please don’t ever change your editing style! I very much appreciate your ability to create digestible, watchable, helpful, and inspiring videos without much editing! Keep it strait forward! You’ll inspire many!!!

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

I appreciate that! I like the minimalist approach. No need for gimmicks :) I intend to improve as I go, but no radical changes. Thanks for watching!

@LenachenUSA 18 күн бұрын

Hello Pierre. I am a frequent watcher of Rick's channel. I still remembered you were interviewed by Rick. Since then I subscribed your channel and watched your videos from time to time. I think you are an excellent teacher. Your articulation skill is excellent and no need less to say your piano skills. I am happy to see your channel's growth. A private question: have you started earning from KZfaq channel yet? 😄😄 Thanks for sharing your experiences.

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Very kind of you, thanks for coming along for the journey! Yes, I have started earning a little bit, but it took well over a year and dozens of videos. It's difficult, but if you stick with it you will inevitably pass the threshold!

@fotoalive 11 күн бұрын

Bless Ricky for convincing you to make a channel ! Very Nice to get to know you more in this vidéo, You are amanzinly talented ! Keep doing what you love thé most and the Doors of heaven'🌈 Will pour blessings over you ! imagine how harder it is to learn when your a babyboomer with no backgrown in music 😂 We need help from patient teacher like you Merci beaucoup 😊

@pierrejpiscitelli 10 күн бұрын

@@fotoalive 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@dougtravins9624 18 күн бұрын

As others have said, I appreciate your honesty. This video should be watched by any young inspiring musician before they make fatal mistakes while building a career. Just good common sense and advice. 👍

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching!

@jdanderson9727 17 күн бұрын

I saw you do that first episode with Rick Beato. I subscribed to your channel that day. I have not been disappointed. Keep up the good work. Also, I'm looking forward to some Bad Company lessons.

@pierrejpiscitelli 17 күн бұрын

Thanks so much

@bradkressman8120 10 күн бұрын

Pierre - I am a teacher, public physical education. You are an excellent teacher I’ve learned a ton from you and I cannot read music at all - now I can play several of my favorites - thank you - ignore all the negative fools on social media - you are super talented !!!

@pierrejpiscitelli 10 күн бұрын

Thanks for your kind words- it means a lot coming from a fellow teacher!

@allsurf 17 күн бұрын

That darned Rick Beato! He influenced me so much that as a lifelong keyboard player I have now playing guitar for 5 years!😂. Good for you!🤙🏼

@pierrejpiscitelli 17 күн бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@pavjazzy 18 күн бұрын

Good for you! As a teacher and performer, I have been down many roads as well. It’s quite impressive that you have made such a great career at such a young age! It’ll be cool to see what else you accomplish 😊

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Thanks very much, I really appreciate that!

@marcomarrone174 15 күн бұрын

Edifying video Pierre, your passion is evident and we are all the benefactors. Bravo!

@tadpolesoup 18 күн бұрын

Enjoyed hearing your journey so far. Thanks for sharing!

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Evergreen64 17 күн бұрын

You do great with the KZfaq channel! You just seem to have a natural ability to talk to people. Most KZfaq channels I've watched people start out not being very good at that part but they get better as time goes on. You seem to have nailed it from the beginning.

@pierrejpiscitelli 17 күн бұрын

That’s very kind, glad you are enjoying it!

@mikefoxtrotsierra7984 17 күн бұрын

Hi Pierre, glad to get to know you this way... Essentially during corona I resumed playing keyboard, more open-minded than when I was young, also looked out for Lyle's transcriptions, and found your book. What an amazing story you can tell, and make Lyle's music even more long-lived. Will check-out Eberhard, there are so many gems in their oevre. Glad to have found your channel, looking forward and eager to learn

@pierrejpiscitelli 16 күн бұрын

Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

@geocosmicvalentine 18 күн бұрын

This episode is a wonderful slam dunk as the basketball players say! And thanks to Rick for inspiring you and persuading you to start this channel.

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

@tigrom01 18 күн бұрын

I appreciate your honesty!

@ArthurGomesZah 18 күн бұрын

Hey Pierre, thanks for sharing with us your experiences. Very insightful. Awesome story about Lyle Mays. I know Mays from his work with Metheny, whom I first got to know because of his friendship with Milton Nascimento. Then I searched a bit more and saw that Milton recorded Mays' "Close to home". Nascimento is one of the prides of my region in Brazil. Maybe one day you do a tutorial of a Brazilian song. That's one of the things I like about your channel: puts me in contact with good music and provides some background story. Keep up the good work!

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

I love that Milton version of Lyle’s composition. Very few people know it- it’s amazing! Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the comment! 🙏🏻

@acoustic61 18 күн бұрын

Hi Pierre, I wish I had half your talent. I honestly don't know how you do it. I thought maybe you played in a pop cover band because you play and teach so many popular songs, seemingly perfect. I hope you'll continue. Before Covid, I was doing live sound for local cover bands. I was getting bored listening to the same classic rock standards every night. However, I loved watching a band that could pull off some of the more difficult and unusual songs which other bands weren't able to do. BTW, a few average musicians I know, earn far more playing nursing home gigs than they did in bar bands. But I would quickly be bored playing songs like "Heart and Soul" or "Rainbow Connection" every day. Keep up the great work Thanks.

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching! Yes, you guessed correctly regarding playing in cover bands. I'm lucky to play in one that performs challenging enough material, and on top of that the musicianship is just stellar. Thanks again for your kind words and for being a part of the channel!

@EricJohnson-iv7ne 9 күн бұрын

Great video. Thanks for sharing your story

@darmac8519 16 күн бұрын

Thank you for all of your help pierre ❤

@helvecioguimaraes 7 күн бұрын

great story, thanks and keep it up

@matias.salimbene 18 күн бұрын

You are awesome, keep going. I wish you all the success.

@pierrejpiscitelli 17 күн бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@fightingtwozeroone 18 күн бұрын

Very inspiring, Pierre! Thanks for sharing. Listening to Lyle Mays over the years has given me a real appreciation for the piano and what a beautiful instrument it is. So glad I found your channel!!

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Great to have you here. Thanks so much for watching 🙏🏻

@Rapsgarage 18 күн бұрын

Great Video!!

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@iEmmV 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience! You’re awesome!

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Hope it was helpful-- thanks for watching! 🙏🏻

@dmgsoultogetherness6667 18 күн бұрын

great insight

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

🙏🏻

@hubertbauch4349 18 күн бұрын

Dear Pierre, thank you very much for this personal insights. Looking forward to the next videos. Have you ever toured Germany?

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching! I have been to Germany many times as I have family living there. Never for work, though.

@charlieharpman2107 17 күн бұрын

Hi Pierre!! Great video, very informative! I love music and also prefer the 9 to 5. This is very interesting. If is curious about your arm losing strength. Yes please make a video about it. Was it originating from the spine? 😃 looking forward to the next video.

@pierrejpiscitelli 17 күн бұрын

Thanks. It wasn’t actually, thankfully… just sever shoulder instability and thoracic outlet syndrome!

@charlieharpman2107 17 күн бұрын

Good to hear it wasn’t from the spine 👍 seems your arm is much better 😀 still would be interesting to see a video about it. Thank you for writing back! I have been watching a lot of your videos. They are great, ss they sound just like the actual songs. If I may drop a suggestion. It would be great to see a video for “ dirty laundry “ don Henley ( the main organ/ synthesizer riff) 😃

@timesquare5473 18 күн бұрын

Wow Pierre ! A good friend of Lyle; the best musician ever in my humble opinion; RIP . That's it off to Amazon book store......(5 minutes later) Just ordered; 1 copy left for UK for moi 😁🎼👍

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

He was just the greatest. I'm so glad that you feel the same way. And thanks for checking out the book, I hope you love it! 🙏🏻

@LesDeuxLoveOrchestra 17 күн бұрын

Pierre, what synth and patch did Lyle use on the recording of "Are You Going With Me?" It's so great.

@pierrejpiscitelli 17 күн бұрын

The harmonica? I believe that’s a synclavier but not positive. His normal ocarina lead at the time was probably the Oberheim 4 voice.

@LesDeuxLoveOrchestra 16 күн бұрын

@@pierrejpiscitelli Thanks, Pierre. Keep up the great work!

@esquiresk7482 16 күн бұрын

Best youtube channel I have discovered in long while. Do you plan on releasing a structured comprehensive tutorial? I Iike your teaching style and would definitely sign up.

@pierrejpiscitelli 16 күн бұрын

I’d love to release a course later on down the road! What would you want to learn?

@esquiresk7482 16 күн бұрын

I just starting to learn piano and we don't have proper music schools or teachers where I come from so I have to rely on material from the internet. Sometimes it's overwhelming. I like your teaching style but don't want to just learn random pieces. I'd want to do it the right, structured way like people who actually have access to music schools.

@pc2nite 18 күн бұрын

Thanks, that is very inspiring. I like your style of teaching and Lyle Mays too. Apart from the refocus that your injury precipitated did it lead to any alterations in technique?

@pierrejpiscitelli 18 күн бұрын

Thanks! Yes, it led to an emphasis on proper seating position, relaxing, using a computer mouse with the left hand, etc. Maybe I'll talk about it in a future video!

@mark_heath 18 күн бұрын

@@pierrejpiscitelli I'd be very interested in hearing a bit more of your story about the injury as I've been suffering with some strange arm/shoulder/back symptoms I suspect might be related to how I sit when doing piano, guitar and using computer.

@olivier-here 15 күн бұрын

Hey Brother thank you for sharing your inspiring journey, I was wondering your thoughts on jazz pianiste who are still struggling with reading sheet music or solfege.

@pierrejpiscitelli 12 күн бұрын

You have to make the reading easy. Reading and sight-reading are two different things. Try reading kids music that is too easy, while keeping your eyes a bar or two ahead of your hands. You have to do this daily for quite some time in order to work those muscles!