Here's an old recording of mine, I am currently learning again.
If you can deliver vids like this, rather regularly, like 5 to 10 a month, and you don't necessarily have to reinvent the wheel btw, just playing covers or known tunes like that
If you can do that, that's the creative part, then you have the diffusion part, which is the other half of the job. Artists often neglect that part as if it was just nothing or automatic.
Luckily for you you have youtube, for diffusion it's handy, but it doesn't do the entire job. So what you do is you register on all the boards you can find, like a fuckton from sport boards, to porn borads, video games, you name it. And you post your vids in the music section of the forum, there's always one. Then it increases your views naturally and it's not spam
Of course to avoid being accused to use the forum only for self promotion you take your time, post in introduction, participate a bit not too much don't get involved in dramabans, arguments... And don't post only your music, post others musics, don't disclose it's your musics... And post your musics anyway lol
And yeah like that, your farm accounts, you post across multiple boards, views increase... https://www.wikihow.com/Earn-Money-on-YouTube
What I am being accused of self promotion have you seen the rest of my posts?
Currently it looks like I can learn 1-2 such pieces in a month, and maybe that will improve. I made huge progress by learning Hanon exercises and can read, play and learn a lot faster now. I've gone through 4 new Joplin pieces and am focusing on my two favourite ones and then the other two as well on the side, and will continue to do the same until I know at least 10 to put them on an album and try to sell it online before progressing onto making an original album.
I do also have loads of original ideas but need to improve at music production still and currently my main PC is still waiting for a motherboard repair from Asus.
This year's open source music grants applications are due by June 20th, and I should at least have finished learning one, if not two more piano ragtimes by then.
Then I record them on my mobile and say that I need the £5000 for a better piano, proper recording equipment and software and also link to a bunch of original songs and covers I made last year that also need a lot of improvement so I mention currently I am trying to get good enough to skip right into years 2&3 of a music degree in 2021 where I hope to learn how to get better at recording and get proper lessons on piano and vocals.
>until I know at least 10 to put them on an album and try to sell it online before progressing onto making an original album.
Don't bait too much on album sales for a living, it's live performance that mostly does these days, for musicians. Unless of course your shit gets aired on the radio, so radios pay you, or unless your music is used in a film or an ad, then producers pay you
But it sure helps making a portfolio/set of demos
Btw, by changing the speed of a song, you kind of change the whole song. What I'm saying is that it's one way to make a new song out of an old one, two vids, same song. I say that I say nothing.
And sound engineer ftw
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