“... due to my weekly YouTube schedule...”
I enjoy your videos, but this makes it seem like you’re not hitting some goals as strongly as you’d like because you’re producing these videos. Am I misunderstanding that?
Thank you for your considerate response, Mike! This question is not trivial for me to answer. What bigger goal am I striving towards? It's not really defined, yet. Do I want to become a full-time composer with project-based work? Do I want to scale the Youtube game and become a musical edutainer? No idea.
I'd say I am on a pleasant stroll through a cloudy territory and letting myself being magnetically dragged by the opportunities around me.
Like Bilbo said: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
For now, I think documenting my journey on Youtube is a central part of my development in this community. It helps me get my name out, opens opportunities and gives myself and others some value.
What I will try is combine the aspects I've been neglecting a bit (writing musical material and putting my new knowledge into practice) and combine them with my Youtube efforts, i.e. somehow making videos about my music. But hopefully still engaging and interesting. Definitely more of the "Let's Orchestrate" series. Perhaps a "Let's write a XXX track from scratch", etc. etc. I'll have to think about it, experiment and create a master plan! :D
Really love to follow you on your journey as it is so similar to mine. We do have so many goals in common (1000 subscribers within 2021, getting contacts in the business, making good videos but writing some music too, having a full time day job + family means doing YouTube and writing music at night...). Watching you keeps me motivated! Wish you all the best
Thanks so much, Martin! Yes, we are at a similar stage on our Youtube journey. Let's make the best of it and don't forget to enjoy the actual
journey to our goals. Because once you reach a goal, it loses some of its intrinsic meaning and will be replaced by another one. And we don't want to end up as star-chasers (or moths attracted by the next shiny light...). :D Hope you will succeed in all you do!