Archive for September, 2008
Introducing……YOUR performances!!
One of the things I don’t like about running a site like this is the lack of human connection.
I’d post a video and sheetmusic, track the number of views and downloads, and know that somewhere out there in that big big world somebody might be practicing something that I had a hand in making. Then every so often I’ll get an appreciative comment, and sometimes the occasional request for a song.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m really appreciative of all the positive attention, even if I rarely respond to anybody directly, if ever. It’s great knowing that I’m having some kind of positive influence on the world, but right now, that’s all it is….knowledge.
This site gives me a positive intellectual response, but not an emotional one.
I read some web stats, some numbers or text on a screen, and I know I’m having some kind of impact……but I don’t feel anything out of it because it’s too far removed from that level of human connection.
It’s not like you’re playing a live show, doing a speech, or telling a joke, where the response is immediate and personal. Laughter, smiles, applause, something. Not on the internet….the only laughter I get is “lol” and the only smiles I get are “:)”. Dammit, I just want to feel again!!! ha ha …lol…i mean..uh…awww…. 
<pause for breath>
So anyways, I was surfing youTube one day, and video searched my own name for fun. Amongst all the results that were my own (and this other dude who took ’sheetmusicguy’ before me), I stumbled across a few performances of stuff off this site! One guy even used the logo!! Cool!!
The best part of all this was this feeling I got while watching. Actually being able to see and hear somebody other than myself playing those arrangements, actually seeing somebody else enjoy the results of the work I was doing. It felt….really good!!
In response to this, I’ve set up a new section on this site for your performances. If you ever tape yourself playing anythng off this site, I want to know about it, and I want to help you show it off….if that’s okay with you of course.
See all the posted performances so far by clicking here.
Thank you all for making me feel good 
YOUR performances! Post them here!
If you’ve taped yourself playing something off SheetMusicGuy, I want to know about it!!!
Here’s all you gotta do….
1) Tape yourself playing a song you’ve gotten off this site, and upload it to youTube, or whatever video site you use.
Please feel free to use my logos: 01 and 02
2) Link this site off your video (http://www.sheetmusicguy.com)
3) Tell me about it by posting a reply here!!!
Then I’ll make a post featuring your video!
So simple!!
Now stop reading and get to work!
yeeeeahhhhh… 
