Sending a White Flag to YouTube
Hello again to my blog! Before you continue reading, please watch this YouTube video made by Channel Makers so that you can understand where I’m coming from:
I have mentioned that when I started making my first YouTube music video, I was told that I needed to be consistent in putting out my videos. Since I wanted to do music videos though, I decided to do monthly consistent videos rather than weekly or daily videos. But even then, technical difficulties came up again and again and again. Eventually, and like I mentioned in my blog about Analyzing my Star Wars T-shirt, I was starting to feel like the stuff I was uploading onto YouTube wasn’t that good. The only music “video” I’ve been able to make this year is my January video. All my actual music videos after that have been a bunch of pictures that go with the music. The reason why I have had a desire to make music videos on YouTube is because I did Theater in High School, and I wanted to SHOW everyone the story of each song, not just sing it.
Along with that, it’s taking me a lot of time to get my songs recorded. I want to re-record my previous songs and have them sound more professional, then put them on my SoundCloud account. I also want to do the same with my upcoming original songs before making their videos so I don't have to worry about re-recording those songs as well. But most of my songs include piano accompaniment, and I either need to find a piano that is perfectly in tune or an electric piano that plugs into my computer. Which hasn’t been easy for me. I’m just a poor musician trying to figure out technology.
Not to mention that I have a white board full of unfinished songs that either have unfinished lyrics or unfinished accompaniment. And I’m suddenly having this HUGE desire to WRITE A FILM SCORE!!! I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but I’m fascinated with the idea of writing a film score! These sudden desires, as well as the video at the beginning of this blog, has gotten me thinking about what my priorities really are. Last summer a group of friends asked me if I was writing any new songs, and I just said to them that I was trying to focus on my music videos. But what if I’ve had it backwards this whole time? I’ve been spending so much time in front of my computer feeling frustrated over my editing software when I could have been using that time to compose music. The more I think about this, the more I feel that it is better for me to focus on being a composer than on being a YouTuber. Just writing that sentence down got me excited! I am a composer!!
So with that in mind, I’ve written this blog just to say that I’m going to take a break from doing monthly YouTube videos. I’m not quitting altogether, I still plan on uploading videos. I’ve just decided to upload videos with consistent quality instead of consistent quantity or a consistent schedule. As I mentioned at the beginning of yesterday’s blog, I’ve been consistently uploading monthly videos for the same amount of time that I was on a full time mission. I think that’s a good reason to change things up a bit. In the meantime, continue to be on the lookout for my future blogs and items in my shop, and please donate to my website! Your donations just might help me get the right piano to record my songs more professionally!
I hope this blog and the video I’ve shared gives efficient knowledge and comfort to the YouTubers who are feeling burnt out or feel any shame for wanting to take a break. It’s okay to take a break, as long as you remember to get back up again!
Thanks for reading all the way to the end of my blog! See you next month!
