Welcome to Why MAke Music..., a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and inspiration,
Hosted by ThinkTimm. We're broadcasting from Planet Earth, now, without further ado,
let's take back on a journey to think, to talk, and to explore Why Make Music...
Welcome, welcome to Why Make Music.... I'm your host, ThinkTimm, and today we are going to have Fun! Fun! Fun!
I have lowered the crazy amount of effects on the voice, I'm feeling kind of good.
I do have a crazy, crazy kind of a background beating to go.
So, without further ado, let me introduce you to Why Make Music... Episode 21.
This is the episode where ThinkTimm, T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M will entertain.
I'm at my best, better than the rest, and I did get some sleep.
As always, in the background is one of my, my, my, my original tracks.
I want to begin by letting you know that, once again, I am not affiliated with nothing other than my own creativity,
my own furnace of work, ethics, and logic.
But, I want to share with you all of the ideas and dreams and thoughts that I have, and say thank you.
I am learning how to live in this multimedia social world.
Once again, it's been a good week with numbers, it's been a good week for my education of being an independent person,
musician, creator, producer, and realizing that perhaps I am doing this really for free, for nothing.
Last week I spoke about crazy numbers on Instagram, and they continue to go.
I told you the demographic audience that was following is from the wonderful country of India.
Hats off, I salute, I thank you, I am very grateful.
The last three videos I put out has my numbers over a million views.
I say that and I continue to tell you that I don't know what it means because Instagram is always changing their,
what do you call it, how you get paid, I guess, so I said, so here we go, look at that, that's 1.7 million views.
And they're all non-followers, there's a new audience basically, so it says that the amount of people I reached were 34,000% above my average.
So, I don't know, I'm doing my best to play the game with the algorithm, but I need you and all the listeners to follow, follow, follow
my Instagram account and the ThinkTimm Facebook account because they are meta-owned and that is the algorithm I am playing to because
I have the most views on their platforms, so if you want to help me get paid, I must have X amount of followers.
So, I ask, I plead and I say please and thank you and for those of you who are already following, thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it.
But, like I said, I will be doing this regardless, so I am only pursuing this because a couple weeks ago or a few months ago,
I would have never thought that there was a way to have a million people like look or even know what they think to me.
So, that's the answer for today. Why Make Music... Because you never know who your music is going to appeal to and who your audience will be.
Like I say and always will say, I make music and once it's out there, I'm just happy that someone is listening to it.
So, back to the agenda, episode 21. So, on this crazy, crazy episode, I got a surprise.
No more of my handsome face. Look, there's a bass line and there's some instruments and I am going to just walk you through these ideas that I had.
Now, the only thing I have to be honest with is that I still could not get the audio the way I want.
Now, on this segment, you are going to have to bear with me because I am going to still take you through the process.
But I am going to have to just basically tell you that the sound may not be 100% because it's not running in through the audio the proper way.
So, it's going to be just the room sound in the background. So, without further ado, the next five minutes will be in time trying to walk you through the creative process of making a song.
Now, this track right here was a track that was basically something that I was working on and I'm sure that it's on a project that is out.
So, I normally start with something as simple as the bass line and for this song it was this bass line and drums that are playing in the background.
It's not too complex. It is just an audio flow, something light.
But once you start adding to it, then that's when I come up with the ideas of where I'm going to go with it.
So, right there, as you hear, we have the bass and we have the guitar.
And from there, I messed around with some ideas for some keyboard parts. So, I'll mute the bass line and I'll let you hear the piano lines that I came up with.
And they're all complementary to the existing bass line.
Chords being played.
One at a time. Here we go.
I never do things that are so complex that they cannot be redone.
The reason why I say that is that even though I compose on a digital workstation, the thought is always to be able to recreate the songs, if ever I had to play live.
And that's the two keyboard lines I had running on that track at that point. And then that took it and complemented the bass line that I had.
So here's the bass line back again with the song in there. So let's say here we go.
And one, two, three, there.
I'm going to extend this further over.
Boom. Boom.
Drums there. And then there's another little synth that does a guitar thing here.
And then you go to this next part right here. So here we go.
It's interesting.
What's being played. It's nothing over the top.
And then when you add the drums into the back and fill it all up, you'll get a full idea of where I'm going with the track.
Now, eventually, I will definitely get everything together.
I'm just telling you honestly that there are not enough hours in the course of a week to do everything that I want to do.
But music is never, it's not a burden. It's not an issue. It's something that I love to do.
And obviously I'm doing this with no financial gain from it.
So this is why I say you make music because you're creative.
If you are a creative soul, a creative person, you just do what you're going to do because it is truly just part of your existence.
I feel as though I slightly fulfilled my idea of trying to put ideas around so you can see how they are.
No samples, just basic programming of tracks and layering them over top of each other.
That gives a very homey feel of music.
Now, of course, when they're mixed properly, it will sound a hundred percent better and I do believe that I do have this track on a project that is currently already out.
I say it like I don't know because like I say, and the truth be told, there is so much stuff that I'm doing that it's sometimes hard to keep track of everything.
So until I get that personal assistant to help me out, to help me maintain the manage, I am going to be honest with you saying, trust me, I know it's out there somewhere.
But exactly what I might have made it at this point, because like I said, when I record a song, I just catalog it by the date that it was recorded.
Fortunately, I think that track was originally put together in maybe 2020 based upon the catalog number that I have it under.
So, but anyway, I am working, working, working. I am finishing up the artwork for the next project that will come out on Friday.
Next week coming, which will be, I believe, the 31st of January. Now hold on to your hats, people, the name of the next project.
The name, the name, the name. You know I take such pride in creating stories behind these names.
The next project is going to be called No Name Cash Show. Dot, dot, dot, groovy scales.
If you are a fan of the vernacular, the vocabulary, jargon, speech, terminology, you know that no name clasher is another way of saying name.
No name clasher. Clasps, a bass clef, a treble clef are used in music as all of the other projects I worked on and put out.
I made combinations of names, words that had musical hints of demotional, beatanical, superlative bass, perihippotic.
They all have root words that are derived from some aspect of the music.
So with the No Name Cash Show verbal scales, you will have a continuation. This will be project number six.
Number seven is turning out to be really good. I'm enjoying tweaking that currently.
Number seven might be something for the listeners. I have some tricks up my sleeve for that. It is turning out really nice, if I say so myself.
But other business at hand. Do you guys know any good jokes?
I say that because I like to laugh and I'm horrible at telling jokes. I'm horrible at remembering jokes. So if you're the happy listener,
you can shoot some jokes my way. I would greatly appreciate it because I like to get my hot, hot on.
Other things that are going on in the world, I think 10 and Y make music. My family member, my offspring, my young princess and I are looking forward to the
Music Awards season upcoming. She has hit me to a lot of cool new artists that are out there and a lot of artists that are nominated for the Best Artist Grammy this year.
And once again, we laugh and we joke because there's a listing of the best new artists and one of the best new artists I can believe is on their fifth album.
And I think the minimum of years active for these best new artists might be four and the most might be 11 or 12 years active.
So I salute them and it's not like I am part of the Recording Arts Grammy chapter. I do have the paperwork I have to fill out as a producer,
but I think you need to get a sponsor or a recommendation from someone who's already in the organization to be a member and a voting member if I'm not mistaken.
So, but I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to the Billboard Popularity Awards. I'm looking forward to the Philadelphia Eagles are headed seems as though they're headed towards
another conference championship and perhaps a Super Bowl, which will be cool for our area and our local Philadelphia Eagles fans very good for them.
All Star Weekend is coming up for the NBA. The WNBA is gearing up.
I mentioned all these things because this is my segue into my talk about sync licensing.
It is a hard thing to get into.
I do receive a list of music sync license agencies and music directors and I constantly play email tag with a lot of people.
And I do feel as though I'm getting closer to maybe getting my material linked up with some cool projects, some nice products, and maybe within the next couple months or so,
you might hear some cool nameless instrumental that you're unfamiliar with and if you should, it might be mine.
That's my goal. So all I can do is try, try, try. Like I continuously say, if you don't try, how will you ever know if things are working out for you or not working out for you.
So I am continuously moving forward.
As far as my self marketing as an independent producer and an artist, I am learning that it's a maze.
And working independently and as an individual, it takes some time, a lot of reading, a lot of prep work, and I will never want it any other way because it is a education process all upon itself.
So I'm trying to attempt to figure out, reach, and I guess cross all your T's and dot all your I's and create two M's to make you think about how you need to get things done, you know.
It is a very recreational thing to spend your time reading about the loopholes and how the music industry is purely there for entertainment.
But it is truly, truly, truly a business that is a goldmine of potholes.
And for those who succeed, those who succeed, at all points I salute you. The work, the effort that your team puts in, I don't know, it's like maybe it's like an amusement park ride.
You know, you stand in line for hours and then finally when you get there, the door is open and you get the thrill of your life and then they give you a pass that you can skip the line from here on out or whatever.
But I do believe it will be worth the wait. I'm a firm believer in basically plotting your day, your week out of your itinerary of what you're going to do and what's expected of you.
So, I do have it all penciled in that things are going to spark this year.
Seriously, the podcast, Why Make Music.., episode 21 is definitely something to feel as though I am slowly chipping away at the media platform of podcasting.
I have basically, I guess, discovered that there is a audience of creators that like to chop it up about the process involved in creating.
And I believe it's like anything that you love to do, you like to talk about it as much as you like to do it.
And it's cool. I kid you not, I feel as though the majority of my conversations with friends and family
sometimes don't necessarily hover around being creative because I've always been creative.
And like I said, there's nothing you could really do that will impress people who always knew this is what you did.
So, it's cool. So, I do enjoy the opportunity to communicate with people, whether it's email or DM, direct messaging or comments,
or whatever the scenario may be, because I am perpetually, forever learning and there is no stop.
There is no chill on the amount of knowledge you can take in from another person.
There has been a influx of negativity hovering around the media and the world as of late.
People tend to be a little nervous, a little concerned about the well-being.
And all I can say as a person who tries not to impose my opinions on folks is that you have to realize
sometimes if you just handle your business and you take care of you, you take care of your home,
you take care of the people that are important to you and you handle your business fairly and legally and righteously,
you're going to be okay. There's no other way to look at it. There's no other way to put it,
because if there was a way to right the wrong, it would have been done. So, I suggest to everyone
from the young to the old, the male to the female, the non-binary to the multisexual,
do you be safe, live your life and all will be okay, for you must push through and you must draw the positivity
towards yourself and you must plot out a life that is what you want and what you need it to be.
There is no reason that we as creative individuals cannot get through anything that is put in our way.
And I include creative individuals as every living human, for everything we do is create, create, create.
From our thoughts to our dreams to our work space to our outfits, our cars, we can create anything.
Excuse me, I had a little cough or a tingle there, but I just want to really take this time and say that
it is super, super important that we pay attention to what's going on around us and realize that
just with creativity we can get through anything. Put on your favorite song, dance with the person that you care for.
Don't let the boogie monster get you down. I gotta take a sip there to clear my throat.
I'm not getting choked up, I guess I'm not, but anyway.
I want to take this time to say that I am always completely humbled by the fact that
people are listening, people are viewing my intellectual property.
I want to continue to build a community where everyone can feel as though they can create.
Do you hear that in the background there? This is nice. This is what creation is.
You do it. You let it grow. You listen. You learn. You create something that other people want to interact with.
That other people want to build memories around or incorporate what you're doing into their mental space.
It's amazing how much effect music has on everyone, everything in a conscious and subconscious state.
Sometimes I take it for granted that everyone understands this.
You have to understand the love that you have for creating is something that no one can ever question or take away from you.
So this is Why Make Music.... Why Make Music....
Because the void that it fills, if you have a void in your life, it can fill you, whether it be your music or the music of someone else.
That fills that time. When you're exercising, when you're spending intimate time with your partner,
when you're driving with your kids, playing with your kids when you're young, you're singing songs.
When you're old, you're humming songs, you're singing songs that remind you of great times, great memories, heartbreak,
times that were good, times that were bad and different, theme songs from your favorite TV shows or your favorite commercials.
Humming songs. Do you remember when ringtones became a phenomenon? Do you remember game shows with music guessing names and tunes?
There are so many aspects of musical interactions in our lives that we as humans cannot comprehend or calculate the amount of songs that we have heard in our lifetime.
Music does not go away. Music will be here forever. Do you understand the way we are listening to our modern artists nowadays
or the way that people used to listen to classical music? They used to want to hear it because that was all that they had.
As time has gone on, different forms of music has evolved and grown and we were told that it may not be here forever.
Do you realize that the songs I heard when I was a young man that I thought were old songs are now older songs and the songs I thought were the new songs are somebody's oldies?
Do you understand the greatest thing I hear is when I hear some of the new artists give interviews and they say that their inspiration is a artist that I never heard of before because it makes me want to listen more.
With that, we are coming to the end of episode 21. Should I say it has been a pleasure? It has been nothing but love.
I want to say, think, live, follow, subscribe, like. Most importantly, listen.
On that level, I want to say, peace out and be wild and live forever.