TEM240: Christopher Bill

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TEM240: Christopher Bill

Christopher Bill is the most subscribed brass player in the world on YouTube and has over 3 million likes on TikTok.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

  • Don’t miss Christopher Bill at the Brass Career Intensive - learn more at brasscareerintensive.com

  • How Christopher’s career path has changed over the years

  • What he is trying to do and what is working and hanging out in the middle of that Venn diagram

  • Not falling for the trap that what you see around you are the only things that are possible in life

  • Why you can’t replicate Chris’s exact journey

  • How he realized very quickly after getting to college that focusing on learning orchestral excerpts like everyone around him was wasn’t the best path for him

  • The YouTube channel he started as a college student that had nothing to do with trombone and how it took him a while to realize he should combine his passion for making videos with his passion for making music

  • Why if you have to make concessions you should always make it on behalf of the audience and not yourself or you run the risk of making art you don’t love for an audience you don’t like

  • The value of building an audience that is there for you doing the things you like to do rather than some other version of you or your art

  • Why it’s better to have a lower number of followers who are super engaged and invested than a higher number of followers who aren’t

  • “I’d rather be five people’s favorite thing than 100 people’s 9th favorite thing”

  • The concept of skill creep in video games and how that relates to our view of success

  • Why if you think about “only” getting 100 views on video as people in an actual room hearing you play makes you realize that that’s a lot of people

  • Why you’ll never beat the feeling of the first time you pay your rent by doing something musical or creative

  • The sync button story and why even the people on top still have plenty to learn

  • How Chris has learned almost everything by asking others for help

  • Why you should make any repeated task more efficient

  • The importance having a clear idea of what is possible when video editing (and that all comes from intentionally observing others)

  • All of the Episode 1’s he’s had in his career that didn’t have an Episode 2 because he’s constantly trying new things

  • Why at the end of a project it should ideally leave you with more energy and not less 

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Produced by Andrew Hitz

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