This is a message I'm putting together for Busy Works Beats, both to share the love I have for the channel with fellow viewers and to offer a couple of suggestions, as a fellow YouTuber, that I think could be helpful for him too. So first off, I love Busy Works Beats. I've been following for about 10 years. When I first started making music in FL Studio is when I found Busy Works Beats.
The number one thing for me is the grind. I've made thousands and thousands of videos on YouTube myself across a whole bunch of channels. I've actually deleted most of my videos. And I really respect when someone else grinds at a level I grind at or higher. Busy Works Beats has 6,762 videos and 205 million views. That grind is something else. I had times when I wasn't even making music, and I'd still mess around on the YouTube homepage, and all I'd see for years and years was the grind, the absolute grind. I'm like, this is just incredible. The sheer quantity, the consistency, the length of the videos, the time and effort he puts into them. I hadn't watched in a little while, but then I looked at some of his Serum videos. I watch the most random videos he makes sometimes, and I love that he just covers everything in the world of music production and FL Studio, and then covers random stuff too.
What I'd love to see: more Busy Works Beats music
What I would really like to see, though, is some Busy Works Beats music. He teaches so much. I see him do his tutorials and he just throws together something really quick and it sounds great. If you go over to his playlists, there's a lot. There's a shocking amount of playlists. I need to get my playlists on this level too, because I have like five right now. But what I would like to be able to do is fire up a playlist of Busy Works Beats music. Anything. Play the piano for me. Make a trap beat, a rap beat, an instrumental, anything. It doesn't even need vocals, I don't care. I just want a playlist somewhere.
Maybe this already exists, because there are so many playlists that I might have missed it. But I would really like to see a playlist featured somewhere that says, hey, this is my music. I looked on Spotify, and I've seen some of his older videos talking about Spotify, so I can see why he doesn't have music on there that I'm aware of. With the way Spotify treats artists, I respect that. With his YouTube following, it makes sense. And I can see that he listens and gives song feedback. I haven't hopped into a live stream lately, but what I would really like is just a playlist, especially of instrumental stuff, where I could listen to music that's made by Busy Works Beats. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just play the piano real quick and put that out, and I'll listen to it.
I've felt bad sometimes, because I'm like, man, he deserves more views. Why don't some of his videos get many more views? And in my experience the answer is that music production is one of those things people get into for a while and then drift away from. Like me, I've been off and on with music production for 10 years. For years I wouldn't even see his videos, back when I used the home feed, because I'd stopped doing music production. A lot of people are inconsistent with music production. But what people are consistent with is listening to music. So I really wish Busy Works Beats would consistently crank out little instrumental songs.
One of the hardest things for me is finding music I actually like listening to, because so many of the people who make music or teach music production don't actually make that much music. So I would love it if Busy Works Beats would make at least one out of ten of his videos, if not one out of five, an actual song. It could be a complete piano freestyle or something, I don't care what it is, I would listen to it. And I want a playlist. What I like to do is just put a YouTube playlist on in the background and listen to instrumental music. Piano, trap beat, whatever. I'll listen to it in the background. But I don't want to listen to some random playlist on Spotify or junk from somebody I don't know. I would love to just put on his songs and listen to them all the time.
Why his consistency is a role model for me
I need to jump into a live stream. I was so happy to see Busy Works Beats catch a gift membership in my live stream. I've been meaning to make a video to shout him out and to talk about something that, as a YouTube creator myself, is really hard sometimes: keeping going with the grind. On my channel, I felt like I'd been shadow banned. It sucked. If you look at a lot of my views from before I started making non-music stuff, I was just making all music on my channel, which was not my main audience, even though I have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. I've quit YouTube a bunch of times. I'm like, why even bother when I make a video and it gets a couple hundred views, or even less than a hundred views? Why even bother? My videos are useless, the algorithm is dead.
But I look at Busy Works Beats and I'm glad he's cranking out content. This is a role model for me. He's just been consistent and hasn't deleted all his videos like I did at one point. I got so frustrated with YouTube that I deleted all my videos. And what I've come to believe is that this is what I want to do going forward: just crank videos out and make videos that last the test of time. Busy Works Beats joined YouTube two years before me, which is impressive. He's been in this a long time. What I want to do going forward is crank out videos, even four videos a day, and not worry about how many views they get.
What I love is that he is consistently giving value. He's always talking about what's going on, always showing people how to make music. It's amazing, an hour-and-13-minute video, and then live streams on top of that. The grind never stops on Busy Works Beats. And that's inspiring to me, because I imagine he's felt down sometimes, like all of us do who are on YouTube. But I'm glad he hasn't quit. I'm glad he keeps putting out videos, no matter what. I need role models like that, because most of us are not going to be MrBeast, where the algorithm and the subs just go up forever and ever. But most of us can keep creating and providing value.
So I want to thank Busy Works Beats for his consistency on YouTube. I really hope to see some of that Busy Works Beats music. I'm really grateful for him. I didn't even realize he followed me and knew my channel, so it's really cool that he knows who I am too. And even if you've never made music before, he's put together everything you need to learn it for free. I make music too, but the main thing I do these days is tutorial videos, and you can find a lot of that in my YouTube Coaching playlist. Busy Works Beats is my new role model. The lesson is: do a video on whatever you want. Whatever you do, grind out videos and just do them. Don't worry about the views. Just put out videos trying to help someone every day.