How do you post consistent content as a musician?

TeraVex

TeraVex

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This is a question that I have been thinking about for a while, and I am wondering.. how does one post consistently if you are a musician? Content like that takes a lot of time to create something good and to make a video and edit it so I am curious how one creates a constant stream of uploads while still creating good content?
 
I have at least 4 music type videos a month and the way I do it is to spend all my free time on it and figure out systems, build presets and so on to maximise your time working. Varying from covers and orginials helps to keep it from getting stale as well.
 
Hi TeraVex, for the thing you've mentioned we could consider us as youtubers. What is the main difference: youtubers can post video weekly or daily just because they record videos with their cam or mobile phone and they upload them instantly on their channel. Musicians and/or video makers create projects, I mean every video content is a new planned project with a budget, with more persons, permission from places, our own proper preparation, tools, post-production and more.
That's why for my opinion dont you care about how many videos you have, but focus your attention in promoting every video as best as you can and keep promoting them. A music video is forever.
 
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As a viewer interested in your final product, I'd also be interested in the process that got you there. Maybe you can only post one finished and polished piece a month? How about posting 4 checkpoint videos along the way in which you talk about what you've been trying, how things are coming along, instruments used, processes, software, techniques, and give little samples of the sound or parts of the song. There is a ton of content besides a final piece. The journey and experimentation that got you there would be very interesting in my opinion.
 
I consider it's a good option to work with many aspects, like your own stuff, some good covers, transcriptions, collab, backing tracks, even tutorials about how to get something really specific. That's what I'm trying to do lately, and though my channel is not big yet I did notice my videos are reachings different people and views are growing.
 
Hmmm.... Here are a few things I've learned, although I'm not sure if these are good tips or not...

In my opinion, it's not that important to be consistent as a musician. It helps, but I've been okay posting when I can.
Focus on playing "easier music" (a very relative term...) because songs that are easy for you to play can be just as interesting and enjoyable to listen to as difficult songs. Easier songs allow you to post more often.
I've been trying to keep the video part as simple as I can in the beginning so that I can "grow" into something more complicated later. One-shot-wonders of just playing a song don't make very interesting videos, but I think of them as a step above having a still picture + music playing.
People love music tutorials -- they often like them more than the actual music, and they are fairly easy videos to make. ^^
 
KatyAdelson said:
One-shot-wonders of just playing a song don't make very interesting videos, but I think of them as a step above having a still picture + music playing.
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Do you mean many takes and different angles? Sorry I'm not a native speaker so this is not clear for me.
Thanks in advance!
 
Thank you guys for these great responses! I've been thinking about growth and just trying to keep a decent upload schedule to about 1 or 2 music videos a week and it's hard pumping music out like that, so it's goods to see this many options! Thank you and I'll try these in the future!
 
Musicians have so many content to make. They can make covers, original songs, music challenges, commentary, reviews.... just know what its trending and do it before the trend passes. That is the downside, if you don't do it when its popular, try doing a What does the fox say video right now, people will be super confused
 
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