1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Welcome to Why Make Music..., a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and inspiration, 2 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 first by ThinkTimm, we're broadcasting from Planet Earth, 3 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Yo! 4 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Let's take a journey to think, to talk, and to live the future, 5 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Why Make Music... 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to 7 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Why Make Music... 8 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:02,000 The podcast hosted by ThinkTImm... 9 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:12,000 This is episode 20 and I welcome you. 10 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:26,000 For all the first time listeners, I am ThinkTimm and I am here to talk 11 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Why Make Music... 12 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Dot, dot, dot, it could be the question, the statement, the answer. 13 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Why Make Music... 14 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Before I begin, I want to say a huge thank you to 15 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Now this is based upon the information I obtained from Instagram 16 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:20,000 All the people in the country of India 17 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:41,000 The reason I say is the last two weeks my social media post has gained a lot of plays and a lot of views 18 00:02:41,000 --> 00:03:08,000 The first week it was 250 plus thousand and within the last week I am getting close to 800,000 views 19 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Now this is on a little one minute reel clip that I posted 20 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:29,000 And for whatever reason it's doing really well in India 21 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:39,000 So, I thank you, thank you for listening, thank you for clicking 22 00:03:39,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I must be honest, I know not what it means to me in this social media landscape to receive that amount of interaction 23 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:28,000 So, I will keep you posted but once again my humble thanks for interacting with my social media 24 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Now with that said, I want to let you all know that I was really planning to have a audio track 25 00:04:51,000 --> 00:05:02,000 That was not as funky as this but I'm going to tell you exactly what happened 26 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:24,000 So, I was planning to talk over a clip of me working on a song on Logic Pro 27 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:43,000 So, I recorded everything and I did it and long story short for whatever reason probably my fault 28 00:05:43,000 --> 00:06:05,000 I had no audio, I had me talking but I didn't have the sound from the video source routed in the right way 29 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:18,000 So, long story short, episode 20, Mistakes, Mistakes Will Happen 30 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:30,000 So, with that being said, I am going to chit chat, chop it up a bit 31 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:42,000 But we're not going to run long, I'm just going to update you on my weekly activities 32 00:06:42,000 --> 00:07:00,000 And we'll keep the ball rolling, I promise I will educate myself more and work all the kinks out of my plans 33 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:18,000 So, we will have smooth running in the future but you never know, maybe I'll make a behind the scenes video 34 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Of the clips from me waiting for the audio to kick in and you hear it lightly in the background from my headphones 35 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:48,000 But it's not playing and I was trying to be fancy thinking I could kill two birds with one stone 36 00:07:48,000 --> 00:08:09,000 So, my traditional way of recording the audio, I was not doing it that way, so lesson learned, enough said 37 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:21,000 And like I said, Mistakes, Mistakes, Mistakes will happen 38 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:39,000 So, what I want to speak on today will be very interesting information 39 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Supposedly, this weekend will be the last weekend of TikTok, how does that affect me? Not really 40 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I don't use TikTok like that, I have an account, there's a few videos on there but it doesn't necessarily yay or nay or move my project forward 41 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Now, I know that there are millions of creators that utilize TikTok for their business needs and for promotion 42 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:52,000 So, my opinion is you should never get in the way of independent entrepreneurs making money 43 00:09:52,000 --> 00:10:11,000 But I guess the government finds it to be kind of evasive to our freedom, secrets and excess 44 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:35,000 But I do believe that a lot of the technology we use, we only know the positive side of it 45 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:45,000 So, TikTok, if it's still around next week, that's what's up, if it's not, no opinion 46 00:10:45,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I hope those who utilize it will be able to still strive and make money 47 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:21,000 So, that's the end of me, my project is, should I or should I not move on to project number six? 48 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:45,000 By project number six, I mean I have another 26 tracks ready to be dated for distribution to streaming platforms 49 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Now, am I creating an over saturation? 50 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Because I'm quite sure no one but me has listened to all of these products and projects that I have put online 51 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:31,000 I am being completely honest, look, a pencil, anywho, I'm being completely honest 52 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:47,000 I don't really expect everyone to listen to it, who has that much time? 53 00:12:47,000 --> 00:13:11,000 But once again, like I said, the reason behind my intent of putting out so many tracks is the long game of one day 54 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Someone will look back and say, oh, this guy, this producer, this artist who I heard his song on, fill in the blank 55 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Has X amount of songs available and whatever will happen at that point 56 00:13:43,000 --> 00:14:02,000 So, I will update you on my decision because currently the date I'm aiming for is January 31st 57 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:13,000 I just have a few more things to tighten up and if it's a go, it will be a go 58 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Last week on Why Make Music.., I spoke about self satisfaction 59 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:45,000 And I mentioned along with the upcoming number 6 project, there are 5 more 60 00:14:45,000 --> 00:15:03,000 26 tracks a piece, a total of 130 put out in the year of 2024, actually starting in August 61 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:21,000 So, that is a large amount, a large volume of music put out in a short period of time 62 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:34,000 And I did contact Guinness Book of World Records, but I have not heard anything back as of yet 63 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:53,000 I will continue to update everyone with the progress of that, do I think it's going anywhere, I don't know 64 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:12,000 I have to, I guess, make sure someone there reads and contacts me about my email 65 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:26,000 So, with that, it's out of my hands, I did all I could do, but another project coming and as long as I can 66 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Realistically, you can expect probably 26 tracks per month until I no longer have it in me 67 00:16:43,000 --> 00:17:01,000 So, I think we could rock for a long time, but what do I want to say? 68 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Big thanks to those who listen, those who watch the YouTube, why make music? 69 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Dot dot dot live stream, those who listen, listen, in all honesty, I am a blip on the radar, that's it 70 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:56,000 I have no large expectations of viewership, those who listen do, those who don't don't 71 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:18,000 And I do not take it personally, I will continue, but this is a way just to entertain and speak about 72 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:36,000 The creative process, once again, as always, all the sounds in the background are original tracks by me 73 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:52,000 No samples, no pre-existing songs created by other people, bass lines, keyboard lines, synth lines, drum programming 74 00:18:52,000 --> 00:19:11,000 All done by ThinkTimm. Now, I will always be as transparent as possible 75 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:31,000 The reason I say that is because earlier this week I watched a video of how to earn passive income on YouTube 76 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:44,000 By creating videos using AI, creating music using AI 77 00:19:44,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Now, I'm not going to lie, I followed the instructions and the steps, I put the prompts in and crazy crazy crazy 78 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:15,000 I created two songs, they were two children's songs because I was just following the prompts 79 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:35,000 And I kid you not, from the lyrical content, from the title to the music, it was all created by AI 80 00:20:35,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Was it offensively commercial? Yes. Was it a creation that would make a actual music creator cringe? Yes. 81 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:27,000 But do you have to give credit where credit is due because of technology being at such a point that it can be done? 82 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do with that information 83 00:21:40,000 --> 00:22:07,000 It is interesting and I'm sure if the creation of music and media is something that AI is mastering 84 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Listen, honestly, I think as always, music is important but at the same point, I'm sure AI has so many other uses that I can't be offended by it 85 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Because as I continue to say, there's a large amount of content being created daily with the help of technology 86 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:10,000 So I can't hate when people utilize it to make shortcuts 87 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:34,000 It's just something that I'm not going to do but as a person that's attempting to learn and grow, I must know how it works 88 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:57,000 So, once again, Why Make Music... Mistakes, Mistakes, Mistakes? We must learn from our mistakes 89 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Let that be the theme, the thesis for episode 20 90 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:33,000 It's a short one, it's a sweet one, it's an episode that's not filled with craziness or me ranting about nonsense 91 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Let me tell you, the West Coast is on fire 92 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:52,000 We're about to change the political order in America 93 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:03,000 The world is still spinning and it is what it is 94 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:32,000 I have no words of wisdom other than be who you are, be true to yourself and live your life and don't hurt anybody 95 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:41,000 And everything is going to be okay 96 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:47,000 That's it, there's nothing else we can do 97 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:59,000 We can put on our favorite song, watch our favorite show 98 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Spend time with our friends and family and take it easy 99 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Listen, realistically 100 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:43,000 If you are listening to this podcast, if you are watching this video, your life can't be that bad 101 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:53,000 So, once again, this is ThinkTimm saying 102 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Why Make Music... 103 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Why be true to yourself? 104 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000 It's the only way 105 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Once again, this is T-H-I-N-K 106 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:33,000 T-I-M-M saying 107 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Peace and be wild 108 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Why Make Music... 109 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:53,000 It's a thought, a statement, a question and they answer 110 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Hosted by ThinkTimm 111 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,000 That's T-H-I-N-K 112 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 T-I-M-M 113 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Be sure to like and subscribe and listen 114 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Life is good 115 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Life is grand 116 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Life is wonderful 117 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 What you gonna do? 118 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 You gotta put your hands down 119 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:30,000 You gotta live your life for what?