I went to your You Tube Channel. Very impressed. Favorite - Intimate Jazz Club Sax Atmosphere. Beautiful.

I've been testing a few different ideas for making money online so I can share my REAL LIFE results (not the fantasy stories being peddled on YouTube every day). About 3 weeks ago I started a new YouTube channel which is already starting to gain traction. In the last 10 days my video count has gone from 10 to 20 videos but my watch hours has jumped from under 50 to over 550 hours, so the monetization target of 4,000 watch hours is now looking very doable. In my enthusiasm for this channel and it's growing popularity I boldly told my son that I think I can get monetized by the end of the year and he just laughed and bet me that I can't. Unfortunately, my subscriber count isn't growing as quickly as my watch hours and 1,000 subscribers still looks like a big mountain to climb, but I'm determined to show my sceptical Gen Z son, what this old Boomer is capable of. If you don't like calm, peaceful instrumental music playing in the background while you work, read, relax or just go about your life, then this isn't for you. But if you enjoy good music, read on. I publish a new 90-120 minute music video EVERY day at 5pm UK time (6pm CET, 12 noon EST, 9am PST). So far, I have created playlists of Fireside Jazz Piano Trio (with crackling logs), Solo Felt Grand Piano, Neo-Classical Trio - Grand Piano with Violin & Cello - and I'm currently in the middle of producing a playlist of Jazz Club Quartet featuring Saxophone. All instrumental, all very peaceful and calm. If you like this type of music or you know someone that does, your help would be greatly appreciated. The channel is called Mindful Instrumentals (youtube.com/@MindfulInstrumentals) and I'm hoping that there are a few others in this community that enjoy fine tunes and would be willing to subscribe to my channel. If you subscribe or share my channel link, please leave a comment below so that I can thank you personally.

Hi Everyone, I don't believe in making New Year's resolutions but the start of the year is as good a time as any to get stuck in and start doing the things you know you should have been doing for months but kept putting them off. For me, since I started this community in August, I have been burying myself in the process of testing different ideas before talking about anything. This year I'm adopting a new approach. All the time I have been testing ideas I have been learning so much but because a particular idea may have turned out to not be so great I haven't shared the things I learned in the process. From now on, whenever I try a new AI tool or learn a new skill or just gather some useful information I'm going to share it so everyone can benefit. So you can look forward to a much more active community and if anyone has any questions or ideas for things they want me to look into and report back on, then please feel free to post, either here in 'General Discussion' or in the 'Questions? Help needed?' discussion section of the community.

Nothing fancy, but I used ChatGPT, Suno & Canva to create a little retirement blues ditty, then posted to Tiktok. Here it is.

Hi, Everyone, I have to apologize for not being here the last couple of weeks. I'm working on something that I will be teaching in my Classroom next year and it is taking up all my time right now (I silenced all notifications to not get distracted). I'm starting to get more organised and will block time on my calendar to show up here more often - I'll aim for every day - even if it's only 5 minutes ;) I'll tell you what I'm working on in a separate post, coming shortly.