6. Aptitude and Attitude

Sometimes, musicians when they talk to me, complain that there is no work, that it's always for the same people, and that it's very complicated to make a place with so much competition.

It's true.!!!

I, although I am a mouthpiece maker and not a musician, always compare myself to you and ask myself the same questions:

How can I manage to have an audience? How can I stand out among so much competition?

For all of us, in our trades, it takes sweat and tears to reach an audience that values our work.

When they ask me how I manage to sell my mouthpieces all over the world, I always go silent, speechless,…. and I don't know what to answer.

But in my deepest self, there are phrases that I repeat to myself day after day.

These phrases are what make me get up every day at 5 in the morning, eager and motivated:

-How can I help the musician?

-How can I share everything I know?

-I have to be so good that they can't ignore me…

Every day we learn new things and we have to share this knowledge without expecting anything in return.

This involves a lot of discipline, analyzing, trying, and making mistakes many times and surely we will have some bad days. But if we work every day, learn from the bad days and from the mistakes, our audience will surely come and when that happens.

Doing it well won't be enough, you always have to give a little more, an added value, that maybe isn't heard when we play our music or when I make my mouthpieces, the audience has to enjoy our aptitude, (our music or my mouthpieces), but the attitude and humility of having given it all, they will surely remember it for a lifetime.