Hello!

This month I didn’t make a lot of progress. A lot of it happened at the end of November/start of December 2020. I got off to a good start and then I lost the momentum a bit. Here’s what I managed to create:

I want to let you know of some changes to my SoundCloud. At the moment I am not paying for the Pro Unlimited subscription so I am just using the free plan. Unfortunately, I had to remove a lot of tracks so I could upload my latest track. However in my opinion, I have left the most important tracks still intact. I don’t really plan to remove anymore from this point so I might have to look into another platform to distribute my music. I am only a music hobbyist, not serious about it at the moment. All my main music releases are on my Bandcamp anyway, so if you miss certain tracks, check them out there.

I have to have a think about how and where I want to release my music next. Personally, I think I had too many tracks on SoundCloud anyway and a lot of them weren’t finished, just small ideas. And I don’t think it was worth it me paying for the pro subscription as I am only a music hobbyist at the moment and I just like sharing my music creations.

We’ll see, I think it is better this way.

Hope everyone is doing ok, we can get through this lockdown!

Love Jamie

Dear all,

Hope your all having a great end of year. It’s been crazy innit!

Just thought I would round off this year with one of my latest creations. Here it is:

I decided to show you how far I got with this one instead of just an extract. Unfortunately with this track, I just couldn’t figure out where to take it…I did take some breaks in-between writing it, maybe that contributed to it?

I’m just gonna leave it there and maybe I might revisit it again one day.

I feel I am getting better at composing…just a little bit, I tried to focus a lot more with this track, and really tried to pay attention to creating the drum parts. I feel this song isn’t really that exciting even though it does seem quite interesting to me. I didn’t really play anything in this time when I composed and just tried to use my mind and the sequencer.

We’ll see how the next one goes, I do want to really take it slow now when I compose and really try to make it sound good…I think I just need to get better at generating ideas. I know what we hear at the end of a finished piece isn’t what we heard in the early stages of creation, but I have to learn to accept that process more and try to compose more consciously.

Anyways, I hope you have a great end of year, and I look forward to seeing you in the next one!

Love Jamie

Heart to Heart, for my listeners

Dear all,

I want to write a post to get you up to date on what’s going on with me. I am working on a new release called ‘Simple Beats’ which is a collection of my beats that I want to share with you.

I wanted to write that I am thinking of making this my last release because I start to wonder, I love making these little tunes, they may not be masterful, but for me they bring me so much pleasure. But I have to ask myself, why bother, why keep making this music and then releasing it on the internet, it isn’t making me a living and it doesn’t look like many people actually listen to my music, so why should I keep making it?.

I know it gives me pleasure, but what benefit am I giving humanity by doing this. I think I need to change my focus and place my attention elsewhere. I think I will develop more on my musical skills and becoming a teacher of music, and also performing music more. All the music I make, I can only go so far, I don’t know how to make it sound good, professional, and I don’t know that much about composition to expand on my ideas properly, but like I said, to me, it is enough, it doesn’t really matter.

So I just wanted to set the record straight for all of you. I want to leave my Soundcloud as it is, so people get the full journey of what I created here, but I may add tracks and maybe possibly hide tracks on there, we will see.

I want to leave you with this piece that is from the album, it is called ‘Walking’. It encompasses my journey on this website, through all the ups and downs, and my intention of walking away from music production with a peaceful resolution inside.

I don’t know what else to say, I am sorry if I have offended anyone, but I am the one to blame really, if I don’t have the belief or willpower to create a world out of this.

I love you all.

Dear friends,

Today I realised a very important thing. I no longer seek to become a professional composer.

I am very happy being a lover of composing and I compose because of the love of sound and the creation process.

I realise I had to make a choice in regards to my music aspirations:

Composer or Musician

I can see from my own life experience that I have a genuine love for music and expressing sound. My musicality has always been well received, and being a musician is much more natural to me. I can envision my path in this direction very clearly. With composing, not so much, and I have been trying for around 10 years now.

One of the key things I have realised is, I have never had an intention to become a professional composer even though I have achieved a degree in electronic music (it was very hard, and I even developed an illness during this time). I have always been very happy just simply loving and appreciating the art of composing, and it brings me great joy creating with sound.

My role as a musician is much more supported. I can see myself, being a session musician, being a private teacher, performing in bands, singing, recording songs in a studio, basically being happy. What I love most about being a musician is expressing music together with others. It’s that collective, supportive expression of creating music that I love wholeheartedly.

And that is why I will ultimately achieve more success in this direction than I ever did with composing.

Love Jamie