A musician journey into web3 - #5

Hi, my Invisibles of the night!

My musical journey in the world of web3 continues and evolves day by day.
Small actions done daily are the secret to pursuing a musical career in the world of social medias, and the Hive space is no exception. After an afternoon of brainstorming, I created a list of posts that I can publish here on Peakd but also on other dApps such as Liketu, DBuzz and NFT Showroom.

A post by @steevc gave me a strong inspiration to push my presence in Hive even further but with a greater focus on my music. Because here we need more original music and less covers. I consider Hive a very fertile and satisfying ecosystem for the growth of original musical projects. I invite you to read Steve's post to gain a new awareness of the musical environment that would be appropriate to develop in Hive. It's a work that must be done together, with the combined involvement of artists and listeners.

So, what's next?

As I said before, I have several ideas for content to publish: a mix of personal things, photos and videos, general musical talks and other specific content for my music. I'm not telling you this to brag, but I want to talk about being a content creator on Hive. I'll do that in two points that can help to give more awareness to those who want to be a creator:

1. QUANTITY
   By now we know that being a creator means being constant and always present. This translates into the quantity of content to create. If your intention is to be a serious creator, you need a large quantity of content to spread out over a certain period of time. Some content is spontaneous and created when it comes to mind; others are programmable, you already have the necessary material, you just have to draft the post.
   Nobody is stopping you from posting once in a while whenever you feel it. I'm just saying that doing it professionally requires accumulating a quantity of content that makes your work sustainable in the medium-long term. But then you also need another very important thing, which is...

2. SCHEDULING
   For me personally, planning and scheduling my posts has the main function of reducing anxiety and avoiding myself to go mad!
   Planning goes hand in hand with self-discipline: I have to make an effort of will to dedicate specific time to creating content in advance and deciding when to publish it. It's not easy, it's like going to work for yourself without being rewarded for the effort. However, I find it very satisfying to have a defined and ready schedule. It removes a lot of "posting anxiety".
   But be careful: to maintain a low level of anxiety, you also need to adopt flexibility. Having a too rigid schedule creates a feeling of performance anxiety and could shift your attention away from more important things - like enjoying what you do - resulting in more harmful than beneficial.

I am also writing this to thank those who have followed and supported me since the beginning. I know it's not easy to decide who to support for fear of finding yet another great creator who publishes two posts and then stops. I have the advantage of having already created a lot of content before landing onto Hive and therefore I am bringing my material here in a more personalized way for this environment. I still have a lot to publish and I am always active in looking for new content - even exclusive - for Hive.

MUSIC NFTS

My profile on Sound.xyz

Speaking of exclusive content, I'm finally releasing some music NFTs! For now I'm only on Sound.xyz which is a platform similar to Soundcloud where artists release their music as NFTs created in the Ethereum, Optimism or Base blockchain. So if you want to support me but prefer to use crypto, buying my NFTs on Sound.xyz is a great way.

I have released my 4 singles and those who collect them all will receive a link to download the entire album! I will also put you on the list for the future opening of my Discord channel.
Another NFT available is reserved for Rising Star players. If you are a music NFTs collector in this game, you will find my song Remember Who You Are among those available.

More NFTs coming soon. I want to create a special song for Rising Star and soon I will publish my full album on NFT showroom for those who prefer to use Hive instead of Eth.
It is absolutely not my intention to speculate on the value of my NFTs, that's why their price will always be comparable to my music on the web2 and will always be related to the ownership of a song or access to exclusive content for those who own them.

Music talks and music business videos

I want to start a series of videos on 3speak to talk about music in a more relaxed and free way. I am particularly interested in getting into the music business and how the music environment works nowadays, revealing the behind the scenes to those who don't know anything about it.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough free time at the moment to shoot and edit these videos, but I already have a nice list of topics to cover, which will also be very useful to emerging artists who want to better understand how to move forward in this career. So if you are interested in the topic, don't hesitate to follow me to make sure you don't miss anything.

I also invite you to take a look at my 3speak channel. I was also thinking that, in my opinion, 3speak videos should have a much longer payout period. Because just like on YouTube, we often go to watch videos that are also very old but are still entertaining and/or current and it's a shame that the author is denied that value, especially considering that making a video is often more demanding and expensive.

And then on its home page, 3speak itself suggests videos that are months -- if not years -- old. Wouldn't it be fairer that they are paid fairly even after all that time, if they keep their value?

like this one, for example?

In the end (it doesn't even matter 🎤)

However, given the bigger commitment I want to put into Hive, I will also increase my commitment to promoting it and bring new people into this fantastic and free environment.

Finally, I want to give a shoutout to a new member of our community: @peaceandmoney is a filmmaker who is passionate about music -- especially electronic music -- and in his first posts he already brought some really interesting and valuable topics that I followed with enthusiasm. All quality that raises the level of the Hive ecosystem. Well done ✌️

Lastly, I invite you to follow me on DBuzz for faster and simpler communications regarding my work or for small reflections about the world of music and content creation.

To delve deeper into my world you can also visit my website and follow me on Instagram.

Bye and see you next time!