A lot of musicians I know really dislike creating content, or promotional short videos for branding because it could come off as narcissistic, inauthentic, or is just a pain. I'm definitely one of those people as well... but I feel that creating videos like these could become invaluable as AI becomes more prevalent. We could establish a connection instead of just being a music printing machine. Through my foray into creating these small videos, I'm happy to share the ones that did better than others: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a25St3bzA-A Evidently, I'm still an extreme novice in creating these types of videos and would love to learn from the hivemind here. I'd love to hear what you are learning in the content creation space, what has stuck and what have you learned?

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Get up / Move around / Go on a run / Travel There are days for us all where the ideas dont come together, melodies are hard to create , cant find the right words to finish the hook. We are just striking out / air balling. Even with my mental health routine this sometimes still happens. This is when i get away if only for 30mins or a day! A walk down town Trip to tbe library A quick out of town trip to a new coffee shop! Quick 🏀 Game ( Maybe lol ) Movement and sometimes stimulation from new surroundings Is all you need to kick you out of that funk and back into creative mode!

Hey composers! I just wondered if you all might drop some tips to getting that first cue placement. I’m really grinding to figure all this stuff out but I was just wondering if anyone here had some good general tips to getting that first big milestone!

Number crunching is so horribly mundane compared to writing music so a lot of composers (including myself) tend to spend very little time thinking about it despite how important it is. What are some tips you've learned throughout your composer journey relating to finance/tax? I'd consider myself a huge amateur in this area, but if I had a tip to share, it'd be to consider creating a tax incentive account like a SEP IRA!