which is the day job-night job!?
So my next gig isn’t until the 24th (bass). I’ve got some DJ gigs starting to pop up but nothing immediate, and for sure I don’t have another electronic gig.
Creatively, getting this out there is the priority, and I need to create demand in sense.
I do almost have enough catalog but not quite enough. I need a lot more, like-jams in places, so I’ve gotta go beef this up a little bit.
When I start thinking about of this, what ultimately grabs people—always the thing that gets you there—is melody.
A kind of a power that I have is the ability to break down a melody to only its simple elements, but for visibility I’ve got to make some stuff that leads with that.
Continued growth here has to do with learning melodies and classic runs, and I’m so into the moog grandmother right now. The key is to combine my time learning melodies while I’m really really exploring the limits of the synthesizer. Otherwise, you’ve burned out on a project like this. Remember bad videos where I’m going to learn X and X amount of time. They always flame out.
My day job is retail real estate, and I bet 90% of this kind of getting yourself out there and creating content and doing work applies to getting new business.
Although I have enough business and it’s pretty steady, it’s just not all 100% the kind of business I want. So when you start thinking about developing retail, development, or even developing your career, these things are so parallel it’s not funny, they’re basically the same job just different subject matter.