Music recording & mixing and Video editing

Music hobby

I started playing the drums when I was 12 years old. Picked up the guitar when I was 21. But ever since I learned to basics to record something, I always thought to myself: hey, maybe I can try and be one of youtube artists too? So during the pandemic, I said to myself: why not?

Of course easier said than done. I wanted to make it a bit more interesting than just me playing a song. To do that, rather than one me playing the song, I could have three me's! With some trying out I managed to get three different versions (actually one time even 4) in the same frame playing one song.

Unexpectedly, I did manage to get more 10.000 views for some of my video's over time. However, it was a lot of work. As it involved not only learning the song, but recording it as good as possible (doing a lot of takes), mixing it, then shooting the video and making sure it matches the audio, making it interesting on camera, and then a long process of editing afterwards. Then to top it off, making a nice thumbnail and posting it! Below is one of my most watched video's:

Some take aways

I did gain a lot of experience just recording and editing the music and images for this videos. But after a couple of video's, I did start to realize what made me love making music in the first place. To me, the most fun about making music is, is making music together. Spending time with friends and loved ones, sharing this to an audience and experiencing this whole journey together. It turns out, that even when having 30.000 + views, you don't get that same feeling of excitement and joy as you get when playing infront of 20 people live. But as always, you don't know if you don't try.

Original Song, made during the energy crisis, to promote to start wearing more layers