One Week Of My Life
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The Challenge…
In the grand scheme of things, one week of my life is a pretty tiny timeline. I’ll always think of myself as a fortunate person. Why? Because I have the opportunity to live my passion by performing music for a living and share this gift with others. As an “Acoustic Live Looping Artist”, I am excited about performing and growing as an Artist, but also feel I should give back to society and to my community on many levels as I become more successful. This event will definitely be on a new level for me!
The recognition of these gifts I’ve been given starts with my parents, both of whom I lost to Cancer. They were an integral part of my musical beginnings – which I’m sure they knew. That being said, one level that I continually give back to my community is by raising donations for the Canadian Cancer Society. Because my parents dealt with Cancer, I’m under the impression that this disease could be fairly genetically prominent to me.
Moving forward, I will raise funds for the C.C.S. by way of a 6 day musical marathon. Yes, that’s right, I will be playing guitar for a period of 125 hours to break the Guinness World Record set in 2008. The 6 day event will take place at River Rock Casino Resort from Monday, May 7th, 2018 to Saturday, May 12th 2018. Great Canadian Casinos have been a strong supporter of my performances, and they have stepped up in a big way to support this event, for which I can’t thank them enough. I also have many people in my life who challenge me and respect the unique aspect of this event. I’m grateful to have them by my side!
As the event day draws nearer, there will be updates on websites listed below, and a Canadian Cancer Society online donation page in support of this cause. Join us at the following online sites and follow the hashtag #spiritriverrock for more information. Thank you for your time!!!
All the best,
“In some industry sectors such as high technology and marketing, monetization is a buzzword for adapting non-revenue-generating assets to generate revenue. Web sites and mobile apps that do generate revenue are often monetized via advertisements, subscription fees or (in the case of mobile) in-app purchases. In the music industry, monetization happens when a recording artist puts a video on the Internet and the platform where it appears shows advertisements before, during, or after the video. For each public viewing, the advertising revenue is shared with the artist or others who hold rights to the video content.[5] A previously free product may have premium options added thus becoming freemium.”
OK, all the details were made clear in the small print when we signed up – the fact that changes could be made at anytime YouTube sees fit. Truth be told, I never made a penny from my (now over) 100,000 views. I guess my “long term client” context didn’t match up with theirs. And frankly, I’m not concerned about making a few dollars from YouTube, although it would have been nice to have them pay for 1/4 tank of gas, or a pack of guitar strings. What I am concerned about is their context. Some of the reasons, so I am told, for eliminating monetization from smaller channels is to weed out the spammers and such. Also, I believe it’s to bring a higher quality of viewship to the advertiser who is paying for the monetization. Imagine if their context was “Hey, there’s a group of 20 of us that really like this one video…”, but for making money and staying in business, that would take way too much effort and time. So, I get it. There’s just too much material, and they need to save time. Some artists will be left out in the cold.
I could go on, but to cut through to the meat and potatoes of this conversation, I’d really like to thank all the viewers that sat by and watched some of the silly commercials before my videos started. And some of us know that you pressed the SKIP AD button to get to your source. This Artist appreciates your time….and my channel isn’t going anywhere…for now. Now that’s something I’ve never heard personally from YouTube…VEVO! How are you?
This free in store interactive shindig and in-store performance will be happening Saturday January 28th. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions you might have about thier new system, I’ll be performing a collection of hits to put the new system to the test!!!
There’s some pretty big stuff (relative to my world) already in the making for this coming year. This past holiday season, I was able to finish up and master three singles which will be on my next full length album “HANDS”. I’m very keen on the new direction I’ve taken, which focuses more on the song itself. The result is having no build/layering of individual parts. Instead, I’ve by-passed the “introduction” of each instrument, and cut to the chase. This gave freedom to create some magic within the song structure itself. Although I can’t perform these songs live the way they are presented online, I will be creating live versions of them when I perform…
Thanks for checking out my new material, and for sticking with me on my journey. I’m a little over 6 years in, and many more years and albums to go!
