Help a Student! 6 question survey on session Work

[Facefox]

[color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Hi I'm doing a project where i look at the kind of work a new session player should expect to come across, and what that work will expect of them![/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]anyway i made a 6 question survey. Anyone who has been involved in session work please check it out please![/font][/color]

[url="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R5HSFTQ"]http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R5HSFTQ[/url]

[color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Also if anybody could perhaps refer me to a better suited section for this thread to go that'd be great. Also the titles of any books about going into session work would be amazing![/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]I've asked a lot of you, so please ask me anything! I'm a bass guitarist in Brighton and am making the transition to double bass.[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]Thanks![/font][/color]

[dlloyd]

It might help if you define what you mean by "session work". Are you talking about recording work or live work? Strictly speaking, anyone being paid to play a single gig or series of gigs for a band that they're not a permanent member of is doing "session work", as they're being paid for the session... I suspect that you're intending a tighter definition than that though?

[SteveK]

dlloyd, don't you think that you're being a little pedantic
Most musicians I know consider 'session work' to be a session in a recording studio. I don't ever recall anyone refering to a live gig as a session.

[geoffbassist]

'Most musicians I know consider 'session work' to be a session in a recording studio. I don't ever recall anyone refering to a live gig as a session.'



+1 . A gig is a gig.
A 'session' is a recording session and there's very little professional 'session' work nowadays. I don't think I even know of any UK bassists who are full time session players anymore. Or even one who's work comprises more of sessions than gigs.

Edited May 1, 2013 by geoffbassist

[dlloyd]

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1367422477' post='2065464']
dlloyd, don't you think that you're being a little pedantic
Most musicians I know consider 'session work' to be a session in a recording studio. I don't ever recall anyone refering to a live gig as a session.
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Yes, that's what I would call a session musician... but given the opening definition in its Wikipedia entry: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musician"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musician[/url] , there's maybe some potential for confusion that the OP might want kept out of his survey. (I noticed that a few days ago when somebody else was equally pedantic on this forum!)

[geoffbassist]

I have never worked with a fellow professional musician who has referred to themselves as a 'session musician'. Most say freelance musician. I do sometimes hear other people use that term in error, but as its fairly commonly done it's easy to work out what they mean. I also would only say I was going to a session if it was a recording session.

[Facefox]

Indeed I mean studio work there dlloyd, I should have made it clear for anyone reading it. It's just the term I'm accustomed to!