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[Patreon Only] How I Made $5,000 From A Silly Song
🕑 Added 2022-02-21 17:07:46 +0000 UTCHey everybody! It's pretty standard for me to be LATE on all my deadlines, but what isn't standard is making videos of this type. There's zero theory discussed! But it should give you all some insight into what a modern-day career could look like for a certain type of composer, and hopefully expand your idea of what being a successful songwriter could be.
This is the quick story behind my first "big hit" from about 12 years ago. It went viral, made money, and opened up an entire career path that I ultimately declined to walk down. I learned some very important lessons through that process and share them here to hopefully assist and inspire some of you.
If you want to listen/view these old songs of mine, here are some links that some fans reuploaded before they were purged. They are posted in order of Most Commercially Successful to Total Flops.
Why Wheatly Why (Portal 2) Music Vid: https://youtu.be/ym3i847J6uw
Audio Only: https://open.spotify.com/album/1eOsK4Eb4Ge5FadXxi6iew
Call of the Dragonborn (Skyrim) Music Vid: https://youtu.be/r4_5e1_7mIY
Audio Only: https://open.spotify.com/track/2FfrojeLWqBRjSTVw2Qmhs
Da Diamonds (Minecraft) Music VId: https://youtu.be/RB7isapDhb4
Audio Only: https://open.spotify.com/track/5oYXQxSkkZ4qrVMWysg8UP
I'm In Love With A Creeper (Minecraft)
Audio Only: https://youtu.be/heqhhxL-qbQ
Here Where I Stand (Minecraft)
Audio Only: https://open.spotify.com/track/6yAkoteLR3LJstYloHs54s
Hope you enjoy this little vid, and start thinking about questions for this Friday's live lesson! I'll post a thread Thurs to collect questions. And as usual, my inboxes are filled up - Today and tomorrow I'll get around to everyone's messages with a response. If you don't hear from me soon, try me at my personal inbox (jake@signalsmusicstudio.com) as the Patreon Messaging system is prone to sudden failures.
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Comments
Jake you have a way of explaining things, that I have wanted to truly understand. Could you show us how to add chords to a melody different genres
Production is what I struggle with the most, and it's interesting that production is the aspect of your process that you're the hardest on in retrospect. Your production values today are amazing! I know you've done at least one video on it, but if you ever published a full-fleshed production course I would absolutely buy it.
