Wallitner Weekly 1
Thank you for being here for the first ever Wallitner Weekly! Your support means the world to me.
A lot of productive things happened this past week.
I completely overhauled my website! I have also been working on developing my social media pages. If you don’t already, please follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and subscribe to my YouTube channel (Links on the homepage and header).
I have a lot planned for next week too!
This weekend I will be helping my grandparents at their Christmas Tree farm. We will be spending a lot of time chopping back sagebrush, building pathways, and other outdoor/farm activities. I always enjoy my time up at their farm. It is nice to just walk around and be with nature for a while.
Once I get home from my weekend with family and nature I plan to start recording as many music theory tutorial videos as I can. A lot of these videos will end up on my YouTube channel, but some of them will go onto the Wallitner Music Members page. I also hope to line up some people to chat with on the Wallitner Weekly Podcast, which will be available only for members.
This week reminded me of gigging in college.
When you’re a gigging musician (especially a young gigging musician), you load up all your fancy gear (for me it was my upright bass and amp) into a cheap car (my year 2000 Ford Explorer) and meet up with your closest friends to play the gig. Usually these gigs are not the best paying. You’ll be crammed into the corner. AND you’ll usually wake up with a massive headache from staying up super late and definitely not drinking enough water. Then you wake up, tell everyone how great it was, and search desperately for the next one. Thats what we do as musicians, not only because we love what we do, but we love the PEOPLE we do it with.
On the Saturday before easter my fiancée went wedding dress shopping (Super exciting!). On her way to the appointment, her car broke down (Not exciting). It won’t change gears, so I think it’s the transmission, she thinks it’s the clutch (tune in next week to see who was right). Fast forward to Tuesday, my fiancée and I borrowed the family spare car to go home to Yakima to get MY car and extra clothes since our weekend trip is now a week long trip. Plus this way we have our own set of wheels while we wait for my fiancée’s car to get fixed, since it will likely be a while. (Perfect plan, what could go wrong?)
On our way to Yakima we got a flat tire (strike one). We had the snow tires and the spare tire in the car, but we did not have a tire wrench or a jack (strike two). So we waited together on the side of the road for the towing company to swap our tire for us. When the tow truck arrived about a half-hour later, the man informed us that the spare tire was flat (strike three). So even if we did have the jack and tire wrench we would’ve been out of luck. He then filled the tire for us, swapped it, and we were on the road again. We stopped in Ellensburg to get a new tire from Les Schwab, but of course they didn’t have a tire in the right size for us (this isn’t like baseball, strike FOUR). So instead we went to a local tire company. After an hour they were able to get us sorted and we were finally on our way to Yakima. Not how we planned for our day to go, but we did it together!
All this to say, whether you’re gigging or just going through life, do it with the people you love… And bring a tire wrench.
Thank you for Reading! See you next week!
Chris Wallitner
