Defining Moment: Musician

[Bass_ment]

I was just curious what everyone else here thought was their defining moment when they realized they truly were a musician. If you want to be more specific it can be your defining moment as a bassist, or if you do not believe you have had a defining moment yet, tell us when you think you might have it, or what you are expecting.

For me I have to say it was this past weekend when I played bass in my school's musical for three very successful nights. I got tons of compliments on my playing and I was a really cohesive unit with the rest of the orchestra (well 4 people, its a rock musical) and to top it all off it said in the program:

Bass - Bass_ment

I've played in a punk/ska band for ages now and we've wrote so many great songs together that are fantastic but really for some reason these past three nights which I have worked for over 3 months on were just.....defining.

Tell yours.

[HaVIC5]

Well, the moment when I realized I wanted to do this music thing for a living was in 9th grade when I participated in a master class with Dave Brubeck, Chritian McBride and JB Dyas (I made a post about it too, but I'm too lazy to search). It truly was a life changing moment.

[Ting]

when i was 7...i realized then i had been playing violin for 4 years already

[Naveed Afzal]

when i strummed all the open notes on my guitar at once.

[BassManolukas]

When I got a drummer and just did an improvised jam for an hour straight.

[Spazzout22]

I got payed for playing somewhere

[Left Shoe]

Well, the moment when I realized I wanted to do this music thing for a living was in 9th grade when I participated in a master class with Dave Brubeck, Chritian McBride and JB Dyas (I made a post about it too, but I'm too lazy to search). It truly was a life changing moment.
damn, thats awesome havic.


my defining moment as a musician would be.....jamming along in this guitar store over the summer and the owner comes up to me and offers me a job teaching bass lessons.