Yes! I do coachings. I have a great little set up at my studio apartment in uptown Manhattan. We can also meet at any of the studios in midtown – no problem – but if you come visit me, I have:

Over 900 PDF scores to help you fill your book. We can dig through and print out anything you need.

17 days worth of cast recordings. According to iTunes, I have nearly 8,000 musical theatre recordings. Maybe there’s something in there that you need? (Or want?)

A full, weighted keyboard, a guitar, a harmonica, a shaker, spoons, knives, forks… We’ll have plenty of gear to make some noise with.

Recording equipment. If you want to record anything for demos or your website or anything, we can do that! There’s a little bird next door that sometimes squeaks too much (so you might have to record in the kitchen), but I can definitely help you with basic recording.

Piano accompaniment recordings. In the same way, I can make your piano accompaniment recordings for you to practice to.

Transpositions & transcriptions. You probably don’t want to sit around and watch me do this – but send me the music you need fixed and I’ll do it. Then come up for a coaching and I’ll help you learn it. I use Finale 2010 for notation and in the end you get a nice, clean PDF of your score. Transpositions and transcriptions start at $35 and go up depending on complexity and length.

I charge $60/hr for coachings at my place, or $60/hr + the studio fee for coachings at other studios. My apartment is a block from the 190 stop of the A train, and 3 blocks from the 191 stop of the 1 train. Email me and I’ll send you the address.

There’s also a great little Dominican restaurant/bar in my building, Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters nearby, and I’ve got a sweet record player I’m dying to show somebody.

Please use the contact page and set up a coaching today.

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1. Tips for Piano Conductors – This is the first MusicianWages.com article I need to put together. I came up with the idea months and months ago, and even took some interviews for it. I just need to pull it all together. Update: article posted 2/1/2010
2. Town Musicians – I’ve been slowly getting into a series on MusicianWages.com about the history of the musician career. My idea is that our industry has just come out of a long financial bubble that was created by recorded music. Now that the bubble has popped, we need to re-learn how musicians made a living before the recording industry, and how we can integrate that into our modern careers. I’ve written 2 articles on the topic, and the next one needs to be about the Town Musician career, which existed between the middle ages and early 1800s in Europe.
3. A History of the Lincoln Center Buildings – This is an article for another musician publication. They asked me if I’d be interested in covering this topic. I should be able to knock this out with a few visits to the Lincoln Center Library.

Those are the articles in the works. I have a few other ideas that would take a lot more writing:

1. One Year in NYC: What Worked, What Didn’t – Another thing I write a lot about at MusicianWages.com is moving to NYC, which I did over a year and a half ago. In that first year I made some good progress and learned a lot of things. It’d be great to bundle it up into a series of articles for the musicians that come after me.
2. # of Musician Jobs on Broadway – When the recession hit last fall I counted all of the available musician chairs on Broadway. I wonder how that number has changed in a year? Update: article posted 1/28/2010

I also have some recordings I need to make and post. I have a new arrangement of my song One Day (Argentina) that I put together last week. I have to actually work on the of the runs (!) before I can record it, but I’ll put that up as soon as that’s ready. I have a few other songs rattling around that I’ll record when I have the time.

Here are the scores to Witness Uganda:

Download from this link

They are written in Finale 2010.  Nathan, I understand you have Sibelius.  Sibelius and Finale don’t play nice together, so that’s a drag.  Can you download this XML score, import it to Sibelius, and tell me if that works?

Be the Light, MusicXML file

Joe – you’re working with Finale, right?

Click the image for a clearer PDF version.