www.squidoo.com Come and spend some time with me as a street musician and Ill give you some tips, play some music along the way. I had a lot of fun with this – most of it is even true! Keep on pickin Cheers Jim Deep River Blues Lesson www.youtube.com Jim Bruce Channel www.youtube.com
Jim Bruce Blues Guitar – So You Want To Play On The Street? Walk This Way …
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Thanks again Jim for this wonderfull video. Your playing keeps inspiring me…
Great video my friend. You are damn good!
Stick is too light …
Hi Jim, I’ve only just seen your reply. I know the name Barry Denier somehow, but I can’t quite place him. I did know Solomon, but he has not been around here to my knowledge for years. I’ll check you out if I get to your city. I am sure we will know a few people in common. Hope you are picking up huge edges and big hats. Alan.
A smashing video. I have been a busker since 1979 – mainly working in and around Köln, Germany as a one man band. I have been resisting amplification for a long time, but my back has sustained damage and I need amplification – and a sit down rig – to shield the voice. I don’t think our paths have met, but you may well know some of my friends – including Jim Taylor and the brilliant Phil Free, who sadly left us earlier this year. Great video – full of gentle humour and common sense.
I have an application called "Cool Edit Pro" which is quite good…I never tried MixPad, but I’ll go and check it! Anyway…Well, I will try selling my own songs later, then. Of course, we are small fishes for them…I wonder how many CDs would I sell on the streets…I think that one CD per day would be a great result for me!
The quality is not the best one (though they are ok on YouTube), but this is all I can do in these few days. I will try to record something better in the future. Ah, did you record your CDs in a professional studio? And…Another question: do you know anyting about italian laws? I am worried that I have to buy some stickers to pay the royalties if I sell CDs on the streets, too, but I’m not sure (and if I ask anybody in the festival tey will be aware of my "outlaw" sales"…
Thank you so much for your very quick answer, Jim! I will try to follow your wise advices in the near future! At the end of this week I will perform (3 shows) in a buskers’ festival in Aosta, my hometown in Italy. I always played acoustic without any amplifier in Torino, but I bought an ampli on ebay and I wish to start using it in the festival! I’d like to create some CDs with some songs (covers and original) taken from my YouTube videos…
Great video! I started playing guitar and singing in the streets four months ago and I was happy when I heard that a professional musician like you is giving tips saying something that I discovered myself, too! It means that I’m on the right way!
I found many interesting advices that I didn’t consider before, too…Thanks a lot!
May I ask you something about selling CDs? Do you sell cover songs or original? And…Do you think that letting the customer choose the price would be a good idea?
Wonderful!
Loved the bit about the stick!
Hey Jim, been busking now for two months, with varying degrees of success, and despite my best efforts to date, I haven’t had to fight ’em off- Please Uncle Jim, what am I doing wrong?I had one fall on her arse in front of my case today, while she was trying to sit down. She was pissed, and I had to tell her she was scaring the punters (only I was more polite than that).
Short trousers? – No shirt? or maybe a Brad Pitt mask?
Jokin aside, thanks again for the tips. (That’s Ps, not Ts)Hehe!
Actually FELT your kind words of wisdom. Thank you for your insights!!
Easily the best video on YouTube this, or last year!! heartfelt, genuine, and I think ANYONE who’s played outside actualy
you are inspirational! thank you
I love your education how to play in the streets.
I’ve done it a long time ago in my youth.
Hitch-hiking all over Europe.
My old git. Angelica in fact payed the trip.
Now I’m older and the restrictions in Sweden are hard, so you have to ask for permission.
That’s why most of our street-performers only have a git or another instrument, so they can ran away from trouble.
I think a Blues-Harp is the most appropriate thing to have ? *smile*
Peace Brother !
Greetings from Sweden !
Hey Jim, I enjoyed seeing your setup. I busk eight days a week, as a pun, and a rule, too, as a transit busker in Vancouver.
I sing and play electric ukulele, and kazoo. I do mostly Tin Pan Alley, jazz, and a few novelty numbers. I play a RISA Uke’Ellie, an electric uke and I put it through a Boss Tremolo pedal. These days, I use a Roland BA-330 Portable PA (runs on 8 AA batteries!) I have a Crate, like yours, but I replaced it with a Roland Cube Street, which the BA-330 has now replaced.
Very entertaining, well done Jim
Good video. Thanks.
From Canada…..Simply Amazing….Love watching your Videos, You Sir Help hold the Blues Alive 🙂
Made my evening. Thanks for sharing
Jim, you are the groovinest street musician I’ve ever seen on youtube or anywhere else! My hats off!!
Nice video, do the police give trouble to buskers in France, British Police do not bother anymore, they used to?
I love it, all of it. What a life. J. C.
I love it, all of it. What a life. J. C.
Very informative, and nice.