Y'all are smarter than me, my whole life I've just played piano and any other skills have been accumulated haphazardly. Let me map out what's exhausting me, and see if smarter dev brains than I can help with ideas on how to streamline any steps of this.
Background: While there have been other points in my life where I was freelancing full time, that has always been largely based IRL (freelancing to play with students at various university schools of music, hold down a church job, pick up musical directing gigs/pit orchestra runs, teach some lessons, all the things that you cobble together to make a living). Where I am now is fairly remote, so I don't have all those typical options available to me at all times. I have been slowly building up additional online platforms for education/entertainment - consistent activity on social media to rustle up remote session work, a library of pdfs of worksheets, arrangements, & transcriptions for sale, and now just recently finally taking the plunge to patreon for direct support and creating video lessons, etc.
However, there are so many tendrils to keep track of, that I have been working on documenting the complete workflow so I don't have to try and remember everything offhand. Ready? here it is:
- Make a transcription/arrangement. Bounce to ipad. Practice if needed.
- film quick WIP Teaser raw audio just on phone, at the piano/keyboard for social media (SM)
- Record said transcription/arrangement
- Film with ‘real’ cameras & proper mic setup.
- Decide short list of clips or an additional full phone run (or something vertical) as well
- Record & Film patreon lesson video (for full song vids) - phone cam, but good audio + lav mic for narration.
- this is a separate pro tools session - "Patreon Ramble - [INSERT SONG NAME]"
- Record & Film Gentle Alarm clip - artsy cam angle, good audio, muted piano
- Separate session for all gentle alarms - "Patreon Gentle Alarms 2025"
- Audio Editing
- Mix main vid in pro tools, bounce wav (move to video project folder VPF). Also export midi demo at this time for patreon assets folder.
- Mix lesson vid (cutting out lav mic audio when playing vs speaking), bounce wav (move to VPF)
- Mix muted piano clip, bounce wav (move to VPF) & mp3 (move to patreon assets folder)
- Video Editing
- Main vid, horizontal cut
- YT Thumbnail
- Main vid, vertical cuts for socials
- Upload to gdrive social posting folder
- Secondary/sheet music synced vid, horizontal - if it’s a guest solo, follow up YT vid with sheet music
- Secondary/sheet music synced vid, vertical - 1 section for socials.
- Lesson vid, full cut for patreon
- Lesson vid, excerpt for socials/free sample on patreon
- Muted gentle alarm piano clip, horizontal & vertical edits.
- PDF revisions (corrections from practicing & recording). Final bounce.
- Upload pdf & midi to gumroad & patreon shop.
- Youtube Main vid upload
- Caption, links. Teaser image (thumbnail? Sheet music?) to community posts.
- When youtube is live - update the gumroad listing with live video link.
- Social posts - IG, TT, YTS, FB sometimes. Update Patreon playlist of full vids (if full vid).
- Patreon sheet music & midi drop post.
- Patreon lesson post.
- Patreon gentle alarm post.
Repeat ad nauseum.
What's the move? What are the tools you know of that could help declutter some/any of this? THANKS
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