what's up guys it's Tom welcome back to another video welcome back to my lair to
my studio to my life it has been a minute since I checked in and gave you
guys a rundown about what's been going on with the music I've been making what
I'm putting out what I've been up to creatively I post it on Instagram not
too long ago a long post about where my head has been recently with regard to
making music and how I feel about what I put out thus far versus what I want to
be making in the future as you know if you followed for any length of time this
entire year 2019 my entire goal was to just experiment and play around push
buttons and try new things and figure out a few different things one want to
figure out what kind of music I want to make what kind of artists do I want to
be what is gonna make me happy to create and to put on the world to wanted to
figure out how all of the back end of releasing and distributing music works
so that I can most effectively release my content into the world 3 I wanted to
figure out how getting playlists it works how getting Google ads to run for
you works how Facebook and history and ads work how to effectively connect with
other people and get people to hear my work and so this entire year has been
this journey of making music at a quick pace so that I can push these buttons as
many times as possible I wanted to release as much music as I
could so that I could test and test and test to figure out and then try to
distill that information down into a list of the things that
really do work so that when I decide I want to create maybe a full-length
record or once I do find my sound then I can put my knowledge to work rather than
testing those waters on something that means more to me so I created a bunch of
music or at least something like 15 or 16 songs in the first six months of 2019
and then sometime around the August I hit a brick wall I realized that I was
not on the path that I wanted to be on musically it was not creating the things
I wanted to create and I'm really grateful that I released all that music
so I can figure that out and so I took a break I got a little burned out I'm
trying to document every single aspect of the process while writing music I
finally sort of figured out that it's really difficult to write and create
music at the same time is trying to plan b-roll shots in my head trying to plan
camera angles around this room and trying to weave together some semblance
of a story that I can tell about my process so I decided to take a break
from the camera and just start making a bunch of random stuff and figure out
what I like and the good news is I really feel like I finally stumbled on a
sound that I enjoy making that's challenging for me that is occupying so
much of my brain space it's like I'm obsessing about how to get sounds right
and the music right and write these songs in the way that I want to I've got
a collection of songs together already that I feel really good about I don't
know what the release schedule is gonna be for them but I just wanted to hop on
here and say I have been hard at work I am creating music finally that I feel
really truly passionate about that effect is representative with me I feel
like I'm in short have sort of found my way as an artist and now it's gonna be a
matter what I want to create how I created but
I feel like I found my path it's a really exciting time to feel that way
about what I'm doing so I just wanted to share that with you and I wanted to let
you know that I am working really hard on new music I do intend to continue to
document the process I do intend to share my work as I go along I want to be
more thoughtful about what I'm putting out and when I'm putting it out rather
than trying to release all the videos and all the music I want to be more
thoughtful about really making really good videos and really good music and
putting it out when it's it makes the most sense and staggering releases in a
way that makes the most sense I still intend to try to release more than my
fair share but I'm going to slow that pace down a little bit try to be more
thoughtful about it and create higher quality work and perhaps less frequently
that I did for the first eight nine months of the year so experiment very
much still in effect I'm still loving this entire thing and figuring all this
stuff out but I just wanted to check in and let you guys know that's where my
head is that's what's going on and I'm really excited to share what I've been
working on with you I'm still playing around with how I'm gonna do this but my
thought process is that I'm going to at some point post some roughs of all these
songs in like private links on soundcloud or something and just share
the process along the way in addition to behind the scenes here at my desk show
you guys what's coming under the sessions and all that so yeah stay tuned
plenty more to come and I appreciate you guys being here for this journey I'm
very very grateful for your attention as always and I look forward to catching
you on the next one peace