adamneely

10 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Help other players improve? Do they ask you to or do you take it upon yourself to critique these people?

They send me videos. You can too if you'd like. 

It’s not that I’m “fond” of it. It’s that my literal career depends on it. YouTube’s algorithm heavily promotes clicks, and the more times people click on a video, the more it gets recommended to you.

Consider my position, please. I want to create in-depth video essays, or good-faith critiques of other musicians to help them improve, or comment response videos answering questions from my viewers. This is what I want to do for a job, for a living, because I think I’m pretty good at it, and I have the opportunity to do so.

How should I title my videos? Should I appeal to your own personal sensibility of what titles should be? Remember, YouTube will bury it if I do. So, if I dont clickbait it, you won’t see it, and then nobody else will see it either.

 I constantly have to play a game of how much I should clickbait, and what that clickbait looks like. It’s not something that I enjoy at all, so I hope you judge my stuff by the quality of what I offer in the video itself rather than how it’s packaged for you. Because there is little that I can do about that.

On 11/19/2017 at 07:05, arthurhenry said:

Adam is clearly very knowledgeable and articulate, however, he does resort to "this stuff". For example "My students are full of $@!& How to not suck at music". He's quite fond of having "Suck" in big letters in his video titles amongst other "Clickbait" style provocative wording.