Invitation to the Blues (Small Change #2) by Roan Parrish

Author:Roan Parrish [Parrish, Roan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998967141
Publisher: Monster Press
Published: 2018-03-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The piano was starting to come together and Faron had begun painting like a man possessed. One morning I woke to find he’d already been at it for hours and he said that ever since he’d told me the story about Francis he’d been thinking about everything differently. He seemed to be right on the edge of piecing the puzzle together, but I was no closer to figuring things out.

My piano lessons had taken on an air of looming threat, and no matter how grateful I was to have something to pay the bills, I trudged to each one like I was going to a dental appointment.

Christopher had taken a very Christopher approach when I’d filled him in. He’d grabbed a piece of paper and had me list all the pros and cons of going back to Boston, then rank them. Unfortunately, deciding not to go back to Boston still meant I had no idea what to do instead.

Maggie had great ideas for dramatic career changes that were still music-adjacent when I chatted her to ask.

Jude: You’re the younger generation that will save us. Tell me all the jobs that you can think of that have to do with music/piano.

Maggie: hmm ok. music lessons, conductor, orchestra teacher at a high school (cringe please dont do this it screams desperation and regret), ooh accompanist for those fancy shows like maybe in vegas where the gorgeous ladies end up singing while lying on yr piano? please! please do that and invite me to meet the singers plzzzz

Maggie: jingle composer for like cereal and batteries and shit, OOOOH COMPOSER FOR FILM SCORES!!!

Maggie: ummm house band for shows like the voice or that late night white dude my dad watches. music therapist, studio musician, playing on gaygay cruises, playing piano at fancy department stores/hotels/restaurants. church organist? (is the organ the same as the piano?) omg, if so: playing the organ at movie theaters with silent movies at halloween, or anytime they show silent movies.

Maggie: i feel like google must have some kind of thing you could do, like compose the music for their doodles or w/e? they’d probably pay you like 20k for a 30 second doodle song.

Maggie: to sum up, clear best choices are: letting ladies lie on yr piano, composing film scores, playing organ with movies at halloween.

I had to hand it to her, it was a pretty great list. I’d played on a film score with a few other musicians once for the extra cash. It had been pretty fun. They’d projected the movie onto the screen and we’d timed our playing to the action on screen. Composing would be something else entirely, of course, and that wasn’t really in my lane.

There’s a myth about musicians, that all of us secretly write music and are just waiting for our big break to take our place among the ranks of the greats. Some do, of course. But most of the musicians I’d met whose goal was to perform played because we loved to interpret music, not because we wanted to write our own.

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