11pm ET, Wed. April 29, 2020 and I Really Gotta Catch Up.
Some stuff has been going on, an understatement, since prior post which was...January! Everybody knows what, so I won't repeat that stuff. Other stuff is better.
So the first thing that happened since my last post was that I found a very cool podcast from a podcaster and Twitch gamer. This guy is amazing, I listened to all of his podcasts multiple times in February. I'm planning a blog post on him, Nick. I'll gather his links and post them on the next blog entry here. He's so good I have to do an entry specifically on him and his expert podcasts.
My Jan. post was about my rediscovering Twitch. I then listened to Nick about how to run a Twitch channel. I was in planning stages but one point he made was that you should jump in immediately and grow while streaming. That made sense so I did. I actually started my channel and started streaming.
After a full month, however, I had to stop and figure something out since I was kind of stuck on one thing and it needed to change...and then, the virus.
That had me much more busy than usual, and I had to change my channel in some way, and so I stopped streaming but I did start watching a lot. Sometimes all night, many times all night. It was a good thing to do since it gave me an idea of the various ways to approach music streaming on Twitch.
I was playing piano keyboards into my ancient macbook using Logic Pro X and multitracking layers of the old song, St. Louis Blues, by W.C. Handy. There are reasons why I chose this song that I'll get into in a later post. I can't read piano music well, so I would record the left hand and then right hand for a number of measures of the song. This took hours since I made mistakes. I had a few viewers, hardly any chat activity and no followers. I had a handful of followers but it wasn't generated by my channel stream. The followers were folks I had chatted with on other streams I was watching.
There is so much more to this, but I have to end it here with my much better idea for my stream, which is to do a combination of DJ mixing with my original music but even before that, with loops and samples. I have some gear and I am stoked to start. - J.
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