Time Management for Performing Musicians

I’m going on the road again with the Nathaniel Dett chorale.  We’re going to the west through Regina, Yorkton, Calgary and Boise, Idaho as well as performing at a festival in Detroit.  I’m sure that this will be an enriching experience, but it is a difficult commitment.  Being self-employed does require juggling, balancing many different skills, and prioritizing and in the music industry, this is even more difficult when you perform and teach on multiple instruments.  When I’m on the road or when I’m at home, I have to budget my time well in order to keep up on the saxophone, flute, clarinet, singing and piano.  I start by seeing how much free time I have in a day, then I realistically budget about 75% of that time and divide it by 5 which is the number of instruments I currently have on the go.  If I’m doing more work on sax then I might take flute out of the cycle, or if I’m singing a lot, then I might not practice piano that day etc.  Time management is not an enemy when your self-employed, but rather your saving grace.

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