Thanksgivin’ Dancin’
Hey everybody! Welcome back to another blog. It's the last blog of the month AND the last blog of the year! Make sure you read the previous blogs of this month, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Also, before I begin this last blog of the year I'd like to let you know that there's going to be a change in my blog schedule after the new year. Instead of having a blog a day Monday through Friday of the second full length week of the month, I will just have a blog Thursday and Friday of the second full length week of the month. It will be as I originally started my blogs in July where I just had a blog for the 14th and for the 15th. This change in my blog schedule will give me more time to focus on the videos of each month and on writing the sheet music for my original songs. I'm looking forward to making this change, but I'm also really happy that I did 5 blogs a month because I've been able to write the backstories and the makings of each of my videos that I've uploaded to YouTube so far. Today will be about how I put together last month's video, and this month's video is just going to be the bloopers of my first year of YouTubing. So I'm officially caught up!
Anyways, originally November's video was going to be a Christmas cover since the last weekend of November is right after Thanksgiving. I was also planning on collaborating with a person I know who has a YouTube channel as well and doing a duet. Unfortunately, we never had enough time to get together and record. Eventually I ended up trying to record the duet by myself, but it was so much work and I was running out of time. Instead of wasting more time getting frustrated, I decided to look up Thanksgiving songs and see if there was one simple and short enough to do a cover for. I was surprised to find several songs on the topic. None of them were simple enough for me to make a cover in time, but they were pretty similar to each other. If I arranged small parts of each song together, they could tell a story. Talking about the food on Thanksgiving, making reference to Black Friday, and the reminder to just be thankful for everything. (I actually didn't find out till later that the Black Friday song was referencing a different Black Friday, but the song still sounds similar to the shopping craziness the day after Thanksgiving)
While listening to these songs, it was hard to not dance to them. It was then that I decided to put together an arrangement of them and do a dance video! Once I started doing this new project, it was so much easier to edit the audio. However, it took a lot of energy to do the dance videos! It was worth it though. It was so much fun!
Of course, Thanksgiving was just around the corner and I took a break to spend time with my family. Then when my family wasn't around I continued on with editing. I ended up learning a few tricks on Shotcut that made editing a lot faster, thanks to a YouTube video that gave me that information. Before I knew it, my last second video idea was edited, uploaded onto YouTube, and scheduled to be available to the public by the last Saturday of November.
I hope you enjoyed this blog and the blogs posted throughout this year. I hope you are enjoying your holidays as well! If you have the money and time, please consider donating to my website and check out the links previously mentioned in this blog. Thank you! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄🦌🎅⛄ 🎉🎊🎆🎇
