Good day people of earth and beyond, So here I go again with another blog post. As promised this one is going to be on a much lighter note than yesterday. I just had to get that off my chest. I had to document it in my own way because we’re going through one of those moments people will be analyzing hundreds of years from now. What’s funny is that yesterday was gloomy rainy and cold but today is brilliant sunshine. Similar to the mood of the blogs that I would write on each of these days. This one is going to be more of a business and music update. A while ago when life took a pretty drastic turn for me, I turned to this blog to still be my voice out into the world. Due to the fact that I felt guilty for not being able to do what I felt I should be doing. Which is putting out music in to the atmosphere on a regular basis. It’s a way for me to stay in touch and let people know what I’m up to in the between time and also be able to express my myself and speak my mind. Whether I reach many or whether I only reach a few just know that I will always do what I do. In the last post I started out talking about the importance of communication. One of the reasons I’m eager to get this music blog rolling is best way that I communicate is through playing music. I believe once people start hearing these trax you’ll know just what I mean. Although the songs are instrumentals as of now, the energy and emotion still vibrate through and will be felt. I don’t want keep just talking about I want to show not tell but it doesn’t hurt to have a bit of context. I am pretty excited about new ways to monetize this IP, generate income and have a career or a business doing what I absolutely love. This brings me to another point that I briefly wanted to touch on regards to mental health. I was watching this show and the host was talking About how the happiness level in this country among certain age groups and demographics has plunged. The way he phrased it he made it seem as if people were just sitting around taking antidepressants feeling sorry for themselves. I’m paraphrasing here but he pretty much saying that people should be happy because they have a job and a TV. I can see that point of view to a small degree, but me being someone that has a strong interest in psychology I have theory about depression. My thought is this I think everybody has a purpose and every emotion serves a purpose. When I look back on times in my life when I experienced depression. Then compared that to the wide and diverse range of people and have been affected by it or struggle with depression has caused me to come up with my own hypothesis. In recent years we see people that have fortune, fame and family but still become suicidal. Personally, I can tell you that the times in my life when I have felt depressed is when I was not playing music. So, you can probably see where I am going with this. Whenever I am making a lot of music not matter what is going on in my life and whatever challenges I may be facing at the time I’m pretty much still a happy camper. It’s not music or creativity for everybody but like an ant colony everyone plays a roll in running a healthy well adjusted society. Just like an ant colony if something is off things can go into a death spiral. I’m not an expert these are just my thoughts. My point is this possibly some of these people are finding themselves depressed because they are not finding true meaning  in their life because they are not doing what they are coded to be doing in their genetics. It doesn’t have to have to be something complicate like finding a new career or having children. It could be something simple that helps you find meaning like planting a garden, photography, or writing poetry or cooking for your friends. Anyhow I think you get my point just something I wanted to touch on. Back to the subject at hand. One of the most crucial steps in the process after a song is recorded is the mixdown and master. I’m not going to get too deep into this it’s engineering work it’s what has to be done to make sure the songs sound right across various platforms, it’s technical stuff most people don’t care as is they shouldn’t. I only bring it up because in the past it’s something I’ve paid and relied on other people, professionals to do for me. Which I think is good to have another set of ears helping to make sure the final product is perfect. As you grow in the field and the industry changes and your objectives also change you may have to wear more hats. At the end of the day what comes out is your baby. So, I had to take some time out to learn to do that for myself. It’s not that complicated of a task if you know what you want your music to sound like. After you’ve spent countless hours as a producer a long side the sound engineer you start to learn and pick up what there are doing. Also, youtube is a good resource for tutorials on this subject. I had to go back and mixdown and master everything that I had for the past couple years or so. The benefit of being able to come out with a completed product from A-Z in-house, is that it makes things a whole lot easier if something isn’t quite right and you need to make changes. Also, you’re not paying someone else to do it for you. I finished doing that a few weeks ago, now I have a few dozen of trax finished ready to go. I have everything on my google drive and my phone just in case. In the future I won’t have to take time out to do that because I will mixdown and master the trax as I produce them. That is one of the reasons I haven’t started working on videos yet. This is my plan. I have long vacation coming up in a few weeks. I want to spend that entire break working on new beats. In the past I’ve never had that long to just focus on just my music. Projects come out so much better when you don’t have to stop producing because you have to get ready for work and I may not be able to get back to the song for a few days. Then it can take more time to get back into same mindset you were in when you started creating the trak. Things run so much smoother when you can stay up late if you need to and get right back to it early in the morning. It definitely enhances the quality of work. After that I think I will be ready to start working on the visual aspect for the songs, but if I feel I’m still just hitting my stride as a producer and capturing lighting in a bottle. I will keep working on new trax until I feel the time is right. So, reality is that things are changing fast I’m doing my best to process a whole lot of new information. In regards to music licensing and new AI tools are popping up seems like every day. Up until a few weeks ago I had never even heard the word “sync license”. What I’m learning changes my perspective and possibly my entire objective. I just knew I wanted to try to get my music into commercials and video games etc. Come to find out there’s an entire industry and infrastructure setup to facilitate just that and the odds are so much better than trying to become the next viral sensation. It will take me some time process and apply all this new information into a coherent winning strategy. I want to talk about all that more in the next blog. Maybe that one will be a video we’ll see what happens Until then I hope you continue to win. Happy Sunday, I hope you get you proper amount of sleep and wake up rejuvenated for a productive, prosperous, joyful week. Stay Beautiful even though I know you can’t help but to do that. Much Love as always