 No pausing or anything like that. Hey guys, I'm John Brandingham, I run ArtOfComposing.com and I've decided to start up a daily vlog. These are going to be real short, probably anywhere between three to five minutes, and it's just a way for me to talk without having to be a perfectionist and edit like crazy and try to feel like everything's got to be perfect. So in this first episode I thought I would talk about your creative output as a composer and how important it is for you to be composing every single day. So just a few weeks ago I got a call to score a brand new soap opera and it's very exciting for me because it's the first real significant scoring work that I'm getting. Up till now I've been doing short films and little commercials and while it's been really good for me to improve my craft and hone my skills as a composer now I am forced to put out a lot of music every week. There's about 22 episodes we're doing for the first season and they're 20 minutes each roughly, which usually means about 10 to 12 minutes of music. So right now I'm doing the third episode and for the last two weeks or so I've been putting out 10 to 12 minutes of music per week and it is a lot of work. There's no doubt about it. You have to sit down, you have to spot the entire episode and you just have to get down to work real quickly without having to second guess yourself. But what I've really learned from the process and I'm sure I'm going to learn even more as I go is that just sitting down to write music you end up doing better than you think you're going to do. You may approach the subject thinking that I just don't know what to write I'm out of ideas or this thing that I'm doing on this cue sounds too much like what I did in the first cue or the second cue and that's all natural. Those are natural feelings you're going to have but through the process of writing a lot of music I think you're going to find that you're going to surprise yourself and you're going to write some things that you wouldn't expect that you're going to be able to write. You're going to have really cool ideas you're going to have really nuanced and complex pieces of music that you write that you otherwise wouldn't ever realize that you can do and I guess kind of the moral of the story is that you need to sit down and write a lot of music. There's nothing that compares to just having to sit down and just get down to work. So this daily vlog I don't necessarily know exactly what time each day it's going to be put out that I'm going to be feeling out as I do this. It may be mornings evenings or afternoons but let me know if you have questions go ahead and post them in the comments here or send me an email you can go to my website artofcomposing.com and you can check them out there. I'll have a link to all the vlogs and you can leave comments there or you can leave them on the YouTube. And then also be sure to subscribe to my channel so that you get updates for future vlogs and until next time I'll see you.