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Track Of The Week | 4x Friday Modern Marches On by Joel Steudler

Listen to Track Of The Week | 4x Friday Modern Marches On, a playlist curated by Joel Steudler on desktop and mobile.

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Matthew Ashworth

Thank you very much for making these every week! And with variation in them, I think there's often something for everyone.

pingudroid

I'm listening to the tracks right now! Loving them as always. I'm amazed at your productivity and consistency - most of your tracks are of a similar length and often follow a similar underlying structure while being absolutely different from each other, they're all incredibly usable and high quality. I can't stress this enough, discovering you and your work has been a godsend. Regarding patrons, I'm personally a bit surprised that you have as few patrons as you do. Perhaps it's a marketing/discoverability issue? Lots of people might know about your packs, but perhaps they don't know about your Patreon or don't see the value in it? I'm a patron to other three creators at the moment, they all are above the 1000$/monthly threshold and, as far as I've seen, you offer as much quality and quantity-wise as they do if not more. They do post more often than in the "public" sphere though - one of them has very active social media, the other releases very small asset packs very often on itch.io, and the third has a highly popular Youtube channel. Perhaps you need to find a similar avenue so more people are drawn to your Patreon? Either way, I'm glad that you still find the time and the willpower to work on these asset packs, even if they can't sustain you on their own. I plan on staying a patron for a very long time, as long as I can afford it. My best wishes!

joelsteudler

I hope so! I haven't gone back to fantasy in any of its forms in a while now, but that absence isn't permanent. Luckily, 'modern day' is enough of a catch-all that some of the music may be appropriate for sci-fi, horror, or elsewhere without being overtly genre specific.

joelsteudler

I've been in the '2-minute track' groove for a long time. I don't know exactly why that was the length I settled on, but it seemed long enough to express an interesting idea while also being short enough to complete in a reasonable timeframe. My game soundtrack pieces often have more varied length and structure. Discoverability is not something Patreon really delivers on its own. I've always seen it as a platform where you have to bring your own audience. I am not a presence on social media, which admittedly hurts. I'd thought about doing more YouTube videos, but to succeed there you really need to do that as your full time job, and the platform is full of problems. It also hurts a bit that I'm a generalist, and don't focus on any one style. It's simpler to appeal to an audience when you have one specific thing you do. I had hoped that the inclusion of my 'Thank You' .pdf in every pack I sell (containing a link to the Patreon) would have induced more of a following, but clearly despite a decade of having packs on the market... not so much. Having more public-facing posts and perhaps some kind of social media gameplan that doesn't make me want to claw my face off could bolster numbers here. Sure would be nice if I could just focus on music, though. I will ponder these mysteries as I crank out more tracks.