An Ideal of Hope

I made a Lofi track (finally)

First, let me say I am making this blog post as a documentation.

I used to take piano lessons as a teenager. I turned that keyboard into a computer keyboard over time, however, I still like to think I am musically inclined. I have had ideas in the past to put out melodies or little pieces of music here and there to go With writings or words that i’ve thought of, or lines from movies. I just never did, partially because that was a time of CD’s. But now, we are living in a time of Lofi tracks and SoundCloud. Where little blurbs and bits of music are flourishing. Where a one minute track can perfectly convey a feeling. And because of that, It gave me hope that I can get these ideas out of my head, no matter how long or short the tracks may be. So, that is what I want to do.

So I made one. It is Superman inspired. Took awhile to find the right way to do it. Learning a bit of GarageBand. Finding drum samples, tutorials on how to work everything. I think from the time the idea popped into my head until the time I uploaded it to CDBaby, it was pretty much almost a year. Granted, life happened. I for sure have more downtime now to work on other projects, so that helps. Here is the finished product.

Gotta Admit tho, I have always pictured myself on Spotify as a Spotify artist. So seeing this on there is a great feeling. Sure I have podcast on there, but somehow to me it isn’t the same. I feel like I accomplished a Major goal. Part of me just wants to leave it up and not try to promote it that much. But, I did a little promoting already. I posted to everyone on all of my social media platforms I made a song and to check it out yada yada, and here are the results from the first 24 hours.

Yep. This is why I am documenting this now. I feel like people think I am more popular than I make myself out to be, and if people actually knew analytics and things on my end, they will see a different side of things. So basically, this is a message to everyone as well, who thinks their stuff isn’t getting seen or how much of a struggle it is for people to watch or listen to their stuff as well. It happens to me too.

This is kinda the reason I didn’t promote I had a tiktok either. I wanted to make one “under the radar” and see how big I could get it with a totally new audience. And It has been going quite well for me honestly. I mean by now people know I am on tiktok, so the cat is out of the bag. But at first, nobody knew. I have made some wonderful connections from tiktok and in fact I was a guest on a podcast last night, who discovered me from tiktok.

I don’t know why I went into that tiktalk.

Anyway, A year from now I will be looking back on this blog post and remember these first 48. And if you were part of that, thank you.