A Day in the Life of a High-Functioning Amateur Musician

So here's a day in the life of a busy, relatively unpopular, local musician. A high-achieving amateur, I like to say. I have my yearly—well, right now it's a yearly, but it needs to be happening more often because I'm enjoying it—three-hour solo set, which is a ridiculous amount of time if you don't play solo acoustic a lot. I have a DJ gig this weekend, which I'm switching to deep house because I feel like that really worked last week. (I'm doing the same place two weeks in a row.) I've got a Daphne Falls rehearsal coming up that I've got to have all the backing tracks set for. If not, at least the structure has to be there. I can still change a bunch of stuff. And a bass rehearsal next week for Buckdancer's Choice. We've got four or five new songs. So I'm trying to balance the time, trying not to freak out, and trying to remember to actually enjoy this. Which, honestly, is much less of a "try" right now. I really am enjoying it. Tonight I'm working on a few cover songs. One is A…