How Much Do You Really Make Playing Gigs In Nashville?

Been playing drums 45 years and never had a guitar player help me set up or break down. Subscribed!!!

Very interesting, thanks! Will enjoy continuing to hear about your journey! Good luck!

Tim, keep with the “Nashville guitarist” vibe for this channel. Just raw and uncut. This style is so much better than the typical YouTube guitar channel. You, Uncle Larry, Guthrie, Justin O perspective is so much better and way more down to earth and relatable.

Very cool! Prayers for you, yours, and your journey!

Thanks for sharing pay numbers! To summarize: helping songwriter record demos (3 songs) $100; playing in cover band on the road: $175/gig with travel and lodging paid for; playing in cover bands in Nashville on the Broadway bar scene: $50 per 4-hour set base pay plus tips ($20 per song request is going rate) so another $30-$400 if you have a prime slot like 6-10pm; touring with minor celebrity doing their originals (maybe as opener for bigger act): $250 per gig, $150 per rehearsal, $100 per travel day, plus $50 a day for food (with travel and lodging paid for).

I just found you Tim. You are a good speaker. You communicate well in a free form non-stop kind of way. I'm a songwriter and I learned a lot from you in this first vlog. Subscription earned! Look fwd to watching you as this all moves forward. The wall color of your room provides a good reflective light. I like the lo-fi nature of it all.

Rarely get through long videos like this, this was great to hear, cheers man 🤙

Great approach! It’ll be fun watching this channel grow and sharing the journey.

How cool is YT that we get to hear from our legendary Uncle Larry on one channel, but now we get the young gun perspective on yours! Really great stuff, Tim, thank you 🤘

Your genuine sincerity shines. Great intro to Nashville musician life, thanks. Great guitar work! Cheers from New Hampshire!

Hi Tim, this is Yann Quefféléant from Brittany (France). I'm an acoustic and electric guitarist and really liked your first video on Nashville, so went on to the second and third ones - no nonsense yet passion intact, and yes Drop D can be so musical. Obviously not going to try and find a job in Nashville but find your approach so right, like talking to musicians before being able to sit in; it worked great for me during the year I spent in Ireland long ago. Keep going! Cheers, Yann

New subscriber here . . . I subscribed at 497 on the dial and 20 minutes later you're at 504. It's happening! Your tone and touch are the real deal. (I too have an SE Silver Sky and it's my go-to Strat/Mayer/rhythm tone machine.) All the best to you in this career and life . . . TC

Love this insight into what it's like being a Nashville guitarist. I have been on Broadway eating lunch during that 10 to 2 slot and the groups I saw playing were great! Your video gives a great inside look at what it's like working the Nashville gig scene. Keep up the great work! By the way, I really hit the bell.

Very insightful, interesting and genuine! Keep doing videos! I’ll scroll through your previous videos, would be great to see you playing in a band context!

I have no aspirations to move to Nashville or even perform live in my own city but that guitar caught my eye, your playing kept me, and I stayed for the whole video because of your humble, honest, personable demeanor. Good video man. I wish you continued success in your musical pursuits.

You are so well-spoken and extremely easy to listen to. I’m not a musician, but I am a gig worker in the tour industry. So very often no one in our business will talk numbers and I know how much speaking about it, like you do, can help someone “take the the plunge” into the industry (or, even stay out) if that info is shared by a professional they trust. If I were a new musician on the scene in Nashville I would really appreciate your sharing of information. Well done, Tim!

I love hearing your perspective as a musician working in and around Nashville. I would love to hear more content like this!

Dear Tim I loved your honest talk, you play beautifully and have a lovely attitude towards your career. Thank you for a lovely cast and I have subscribed because it was lovely to listen to you.

Fresh breath of air of cool videos from a working musician killer thank you brother