Welcome
back! To conclude the blogs about my personal story I want to tell you what’s going
to happen with DrScythe. I will sort this by topic as it seems the most logical
structure for this – a kind of prophylactic FAQ.
Overall
Release
songs, grow the channel/fan base and see what happens. I have thought about a
lot of stuff (see below) but for now I will just keep going no matter if win or
lose listeners. That sounds arrogant but the objective was to release my songs
and be happy if someone likes them. If someone has good ideas or constructive
criticism to offer – great. If someone just likes pop or death metal better –
not my problem. As easy as that.
Songs
There
are about 30 almost fully written songs left and according to my plan of
releasing about one song per month I got material until 2018. Considering that
I will write new tracks on the way you can expect a new song every month for
three years straight from now. The first
13 to 14 tracks are intended to be an album called ‘Light People’ which will
include two exclusive interludes. Although I plan to release this until the end
of the year I won’t stop my own creativity. So if an idea strikes my mind and
it also got some relevance to things going on in the world right then I’ll release
it instead of the planned track.
Videos
As
I was already asked about that: there will be a video for every song. There are
several reasons for that choice but mostly I want it to be more personal. As I
do everything including the singing I feel better showing myself doing so. Also
other platforms are focused on remixes (not intentionally) or lack the option
to really communicate with listeners which I want to do. So YT was the obvious
choice. And as I don’t like lyrics videos at all I chose to do this kind of
performance videos. And I’ll keep doing this.
CD/LPs
There
won’t be any. At least not if I don’t become super famous or something like
that. As I live in Germany it’s quite complicated and/or expensive to release
physical stuff containing music and it’s just not worth the effort for now. I
might reconsider it one day in the future (under certain circumstances and with
help of kickstarter).
Live
You
might notice the difficulties of playing live for me alone. So it’s not an
option right now. But I enjoyed playing live in the past and if the interest is
large enough I will try to get this on the stage. As there are a lot of
different scenarios I cannot predict how it will be. A slowly growing fan base
and musicians I keep working with might lead to something like a classic type
of band that just had a different beginning. Exploding numbers of fans all over
the world would definitely require some hired professionals who can play the
songs after listening to them once or twice. So: live – yes! How and when – no
idea.
Merchandise
It’s
never been easier to sell merchandise. If the demand is high enough I am
prepared to use the logo and variations of it (thumbnails on YT, album cover)
for that purpose and then team up with someone who is able to design proper
stuff.
Covers
Not
gonna happen. I enjoy playing other peoples’ songs but on the downside are tons
of covers already out there and the licensing here in Germany is just a mess.
So as long as I live here and I don’t have the best idea ever there won’t be
any recordings of me covering famous songs.
Vlogs/Reviews/Tutorials/…
Basically
videos that are not songs. Will happen if the requests for that emerge. For now
it’s not really adequate and would cost too much time.
Next
blog will be some band advices. So long,
DrScythe
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