Wedding Song

As this is my first post, let me preface it with an introduction to what I am doing. I started doing gigs on http://fiverr.com as a friend of mine, Justin Matthew, told me about this place. I had seen how he had become successful on it and thought I would give it a try as I, too, would like to increase my income and work at home.



I've posted this one gig, I will transcribe your single note melody, which has already led to a few gigs. This particular user wanted me to transcribe not just a single note melody, but an entire song. The song consisted of female vocals and piano accompaniment. I had originally wanted to do only single note melodies because, well, it's a $5 gig site and anything beyond that is a bit much. But a couple of things really encouraged me to do this gig.

First of all, the recording of the song I heard was written and performed by this lady's sister for her wedding. That's great I was thinking. I read on to learn that her sister had passed away before the wedding and it was never performed. That's really sad. Now the lady wanted me to transcribe the song and music so she may have it performed at her own wedding. That's bittersweet; That's fantastic. I was glad to do it. Not only that but she offered an additional gig to do this as well.

I figured this is a win times three. One, I have the skill to help someone with something that means a lot to them. Two, I will get paid to do it (extra even). Three, I get additional practice doing something I really should have more practice doing, musically speaking.  Don't get me wrong, I have the skills. I just should be able to do it faster than I am doing it right now.

I was able to be a part (if only a small part) of this person's wedding experience. Get a listen to a great song. Be in some way touched by someone who I never knew who is no longer on this world. What a truely, bizarre, wonderful, and sad experience, all rolled into one. On top of that, I learned an additional use for Fiverr that I'd forgotten: Even if, on the face of it you are doing gigs that take you way too long for only $5 -or even $10 in this case - you gain so called on-the-job experience and you help increase your skills for the next time you do it.

I only wish I could share the song with you all. But that will always remain private. Customer confidentiality is number one in my book.

You know http://fiverr.com could be thought of a second source of income, a primary source income, and even a self-employed person's paid internship (with themselves of course).

Wanna check out my gigs?
Go to http://fiverr.com/tulleuchen to view all of them!