It's very complex, difficult, expensive, interesting and fun to be an independent music producer. And when you restart your music career again at the age of 50 people look at you sideways. O.k., maybe I AM nuts but I am having fun.
Volume three star...
After a time of ruffled feathers I'm back to considering flying again. It has been a few months where my adult kids have needed extra support for what they are going through and I am hoping to get back to where I left off - making music.
In March, I released the Change My Mind album and it was a soft start. A few weeks before and a few weeks after I did all I could to promote it. But COVID 19 came and I got sick with something similar for three weeks. So I lost my momentum. Journalists were super focused on COVID and a 3 hour long interview never became the release article I had hoped for.
During the Spring. I partook writing the Change My Mind book as I continued to make music videos for the Change my Mind album. I dropped Come to Me and The Vine. Then, two of my kids had break ups and my husband had vacation. After a long and very intense summer and fall being a mom and a wife in all this I stopped producing music and the book and started learning mastering when I had time to get into it. It was easier to study for an hour at a time or listen to a podcast while cleaning. So that is what I did.
Some of what I have been learning about mastering I have shared earlier in Volume Three of the Indie Musician's Diary: the course from ProSoundFormula.com and podcasts by Ian Shepherd. I am looking forward to continuing with these soon. In addition to mastering I am learning how to use the latest tools in the last Logic Pro X update (10.5) - Live Loops, Sampler, Drum Machine and more.
People don't understand what a long and steep learning curve there is in order to be able to release music in house.
Better light in the studio
I just bought a led light ring on a stand from Amazon to better the lighting in the studios when I do podcast/videos and because I will be being interviewed soon on a Youtube show (November 10th).
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Planning releases
I know that life gets constantly in the way but without a vision I won't get anything done. So now I made up a plan to go forward. I am picking out a few songs that I want to release before Christmas. Planning that they will be a good group to bunt together as an album later. More details, later. When I release, I will be releasing one song at a time to keep the interest up.
Statistics
I took a second to check my statistics on Spotify: Most of my listeners are from various towns all over Sweden, are primarily female and between the ages of 35 and 44. There was a spike when I release the album and then things calmed down after about a month. Still very few followers (19) is this really worth it? No, but I do it anyway. Nuts? Maybe!
Social Media
I am not actively on my Twitter account because they have constantly been choking my feed. De-boosting and laying search bans on my content for no apparent reason. Getting sick and tired of them at this point. Every time I follow twenty people, they take away 100. Bad business practice!
I joined Parler and Rumble recently. Parler is great - sort of like Twitter. Rumble is supposed to replace YouTube but I don't know....we'll see. My handle on Parler is ElisabethKitzing and on Rumble is not as cool as YouTube.
That's all until next time. https://linktr.ee/ekitzing
