In 2020, very shortly after our third child Phoebe was born I launched my first podcast.
It was called, The Trailer Music Composer’s podcast; it was all about writing trailer music.
At first, I started out releasing blog-style “tips” like ‘The 5 Biggest Mistakes Every Aspiring Trailer Music Composer Makes’ type of stuff.
I quickly realised however that I did not like sitting at my desk speaking in a microphone.
To top that off I had a newborn baby that I would take out for walks to have a nap during the day.
Given that I am not a fan of perfection or the act of chasing it I grabbed my iPhone and started recording these tips whilst walking with baby Phoebe.
This was awesome, I got to get out of the house and also talk about something I felt very passionate about.
I then branched out into interviews and the odd show with more than one guest.
This was great and I slowly fell in love with the format.
However, I quickly realised that I wanted to talk about more broad topics, not just music for movie trailers. On the odd episode, I did but the audience didn’t resonate with those episodes so much.
Slowly I began to lose momentum as I ran out of Trailer music-related topics.
On the side of this, I launched another show called “Composed: mindset for musicians” which was a 3x per week show of short mindset-related topics.
Composed was actually an attempt to launch a vlogging side of my YouTube channel but again it didn’t quite click. Maybe vlogging about just mindset wasn’t the way, maybe I should do more interviews.
To solve this I launched another show called The Richard Schrieber Show - it was my writing pseudonym at the time.
This show was all interviews and I even go a VA to do all the episode artwork and everything…it was SO MUCH WORK. I loved chatting with other music makers but weekly interviews are a lot of work to arrange. Interviews were fun but I didn’t want to just do interviews.
So after several episodes, this show was left by the wayside.
3 podcasts in and it wasn’t feeling like it gelled with my work of making music.
Over the next 12 months, I trialled (in private) different formats for the new show and slowly came to the realisation that my thing was MAKING MUSIC so why don’t I just do that?
I could still do interviews and talk about other stuff but the main focus was making music. After all, I do it every single day so it wouldn't be more work to just record myself doing it and talking through it.
I was inspired by Sam Sulek and The VlogBrothers because their content isn’t overly edited at all - it just feels like you are hanging out with a friend.
That’s what this show is really about - hanging out with a friend who writes music.
This was the most common thing people said about my previous shows that they felt like they were just hanging out with a friend ❤️
So without further ado - here’s the intro episode to The Diary of a Music Maker.
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