I Made a BIG Mistake
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2024
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Takes spine to put your art out to the world. Very happy to hear you reflected and reposted.
Yeah. I’m still very much afraid to hang it all out. Can’t even generate the muster to be on social media and post the basics lol
I am so sorry all those 'haters' got into your head, but remember how Dylan was 'hated' upon when he first went electric. You need to do what you want with your music and frankly to hell with them. Yes I know it is easy for me to say, especially as it was not happening to me, but look at your 162,000 subscribers, you must be doing something right!
Thanks for posting this, Bill. This is so applicable to all of us. I appreciate your transparency and know that you're impacting a lot of people with your music and spirt, and my guess is that you're an inspiration to family and friends too. I think your music has a way of helping us to face whatever it is we're facing. There's a peace there for sure. Plus we get to learn about cool new pedals :)
After all these years Bill, this is probably one of your best videos. Not only painfully honest and hugely reassuring, you're managing some damned good ambient guitar in the background! You've got nothing to fear and neither should anyone else making music they enjoy. Keep on keeping on....
Block the negativity...Block the haters....Keep on doing what you do best Bill and that is create the beautiful music you do. Happy New Year and here's to a plethora of terrific reviews and delicious music for us all to enjoy ! 🙏
Sadly you cant block the haters any more. UA-cam removed that feature. They even hinted last year they'll drop some of the moderation features for creators.
@@Fl4ppers Well that sucks!
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460 it does.
Well done Bill! Your art first. Now please don’t forget: A couple of haters don’t deserve to win over hundreds of thousands of people who really enjoy, support, care and love those wonderful videos.
Absolutely! 💯👍🏻
Ignore the haters. Tons of us love what you give us. Please keep up the wonderful channel.
"If you wouldn't take their advice, don't worry about their criticism." love the channel, tunes, and vibe man. 👌 keep on!
So true. Sometimes we get caught on a low ebb, our defences are low. We all bounce back, mostly, thankfully.
This is an important vid for me and I imagine many others on this side of the screen. It highlights (more than many vids) the humanity of the creator that we see - a person with strengths weaknesses, gifts and limitations, confidence and doubt, and feelings. Thank you for your music, your openness, your creativity, and for respecting us enough to share some of who you are. And please know that there are people all around the globe who care, and wish you well.
So sorry you had this experience, Bill. Love your work! Keep the faith! Happy New Year! And carry on! 💕🎼
What a story. Thanks for sharing Bill! You're a lovely human. It makes you vulnerable and it makes you strong. Keep playing and keep sharing. Lots of folks need the nourishment you provide in your music and in your authenticity.
Happy new years!! I’ve done the same thing. It’s normal in our musical journey to question what we create. I appreciate you sharing this story. Rock on!
happy new year, man! just do your thing. you teach something in every video. you inspire me with every video. you make me happy whenever i watch one of your videos. cheers man! thank you.
Great message about not letting someone else rent space in your head and control your actions.
I'm happy you made a video like this. Also happy to see you got a Soma Cosmos, it's such a wonderful device. Keep that confidence going up, and keep inspiring others. Cheers brother
It goes to show how much hatred can be inflicted during the Christmas season. This is a problem all the quality channels are going through. It hurts me when I read all these comments on all my favorite channels. Thanks for all your episodes.
Thank you for this video Bill! This is very encouraging.
Great channel Bill. Love your content and this video is great advice for everyone. 🙏
Thanks for posting this. It always amazes me that anyone, who is watching a free UA-cam video, that no one is compelling them to watch, that does not require them to comment on, still takes the time to comment negatively! It blows my mind!
I can't remember how I came across you channel, but I know had no interest at all in ambient guitar at the time. However, you charm, graciousness, teaching ability, enthusiasm, and wonderful musicality has kept me coming back. I'm a convert to ambient guitar, I'm inspired by everything you post, and I've listened to all your albums and think that what you do musically is very special. Thank you.
I like how in this video you are able to talk about a difficult experience while simultaneously doing some delicious ambient guitar work. Very cool. Very effective.
Lovely sentiment. Thanks for sharing your story, it is encouraging. Forgive my indulgence in sharing my own similar story here.
Currently experiencing something similar. After some negative responses and politely dismissive comments regarding a project that I've put years into, I find that my passion has finally been worn down. I've spent decades working on my craft and feel my work is good, but yet, nobody seems to want to produce it. People will be polite, but when it comes down to brass tacks. I feel like I'm standing in an empty room. I'm not talking about music here, but my image making and illustration work. I have to say that the thing that has got me is that after years of self belief, weathering the storms, putting it out there... I'm just tired, and worn out, and feel like nobody wants the work that I'm making. It's not what's popular. It's a big bummer, and really has had me down for about 3 months now.
Your video speaks to this depression, and is encouraging. Hoping to rekindle the inner fire. Thanks.
Thanks for the deep reflection and honesty. Maybe the experience will spark an ambient song about it. Call it Thick Skin.
Keep on the good work. Your work is appreciated 😊
I love you, Bill, and I love your music. Thank you for posting this, and thank you for reposting the video.
Bill, I’m so sorry. I relate, and I’m so sorry this happened. It’s awful and not something we can easily just turn off. Much peace and love to you, sir. ✌️😌💜✨
Hmm... shades of King Crimson's 'Indiscipline' dialog... I like it !
Thank you for your insight and words of wisdom
That was such a positive message bill thank you! People are so hurtful these days and really people should spend more time alone and see all they do so they can really find themselves more. I’ve been alone for an entire year to this day 1-10 I’ve learned a lot from fear to finally finding peace again.
Dude I love your channel. Your approach to making music is unspoiled and selfless. Just enjoy and keep doing what you're doing. He who would please the world has not yet been born :) .
You do you, Bill, and don’t worry about the stuff you cant control.
I’ve been telling my bandmates for years that if by the end of the gig, most of the people liked most of what we did, that’s the best it’s ever going to get. You can’t please everyone, but you’re definitely hitting that paradigm, brother!
Man I am very new to UA-cam and have already experienced this a few times on my little channel. I know all to well exactly what you felt. Thank you for making amazing music and videos! Keep on doing you!
I've always loved your videos. Thank you for sharing this, and thank you for continuing to create inspiring content and beautiful music.
I did exactly the same thing, the first time I posted my cover of Pink Floyd's "Learning To Fly" it had a photo of a Bald Eagle which I thought was beautiful - and a few people politicized it and were harshly critical that I tried to AMERICANIZE their ENGLISH band, I took it down... and then I did exactly what you did - put it back up the next day and its still there unchanged. My rationale was, hey - we are ALL "learning to fly"! :)
Thanks for this Bill. This is exactly what I needed this morning.
The best part of social media is that you can delete horrible humans. You can delete horrible humans in real life too but the consiquences are higher... Delete them without a thought.
Love this video Bill! Appreciate it. We have all been there! It says a lot about those people commenting like that on peaceful music for holidays lol.
Sorry about that, man. It’s easy to say you don’t care, but words have power, especially in such large numbers. You do great work and I’m glad you continue to give us these really cool videos. Keep making great music :)
Gracias por tu MUSICA.BILL 🎸🥰
Thank you for being you. I always appreciate your insight on life and guitar. The way you use an EBow has inspired and challenged me in my own playing.
This channel is for those that enjoy your art. Block the haters and forget them.
Bill, you have nothing to worry about regarding your music. It brings me such joy listening to it. It's true that we can be our own worst critics sometimes and it doesn't really help when someone comments something negative which can reinforce that negativity. But haters gonna hate regardless, but at the end of the day, their opinions count for nothing. Just keep being you and keep doing what you're doing. It's awesome 😃👍
You're such a beautiful soul... and I know first-hand how difficult ambient music can be to create... a person HAS to be in a calm, stress-free mind-place in order to immerse and flow with the solemn majesty... despite how slow and uncomplicated this music can seem to the uninitiated or unreceptive ear. Keep the faith...
My band has a few songs online that I would love to take down. I mixed them when I didn't really know what I was doing, and they sound awful. I really want to remix them sometime. But I have decided if I ever do that, the originals will stay up. I will rename them demo or something, but those bad mixes are still my work. They serve a similar purpose to an artist's early scribbles, a necessary step on the path to getting better. I can stand behind them while also recognising their shortcomings.
Bill, here from Chile. You and your art has been a tremendous opening way to play, ejecute and perform my own guitar style, and for many people I see. Such inspiration occurs only sometimes and is a gift of life. Namaste dear professor and guide, happy 2024 to you and your Family.
Don’t let them get you down, Bill. The haters can be your waiters at the table of success.
Never apologize for your art.
Bill I’m so sorry to hear about people hating on you and it getting you down. Your channel has been instrumental (no pun intended) to my musical growth. You are such an inspiration to me and I know others feel the same. Keep it up!!
This was incredibly inspiring, thank you.
Glad you put it back Bill. 'Trust your art' Wise words as always 🙂
Never stop making art, never stop making noise.
Careful with that axe, Bill. 🤣Love your stuff, dude - even the more esoteric things are still very interesting. Love that you owned this and embraced it. I'm sure most artists have favorites of their own works - I know I do as well.
My Dude. There is exactly ONE reason you have haters. It's because of your success, which is because of the magnificence of your art, your ability to teach, your integrity, and your generosity.
I wish you wouldn't even read the comments (except for this one, of course).
🤘😎 "Never Play to the Gallery" - David Bowie
Tu música es maravillosa incluso mucho de lo que toco hoy, es gracias a tus vídeos y música. Thank you so much !!!
Hi Bill. Don't ever stop what you are doing because of a few negative people. The music you create is beautiful and the info, wisdom you share in your videos is very important and valuable to many thousands of us who appreciate your art and style of music. I am a heavy metal and rock fan for the most part and do love a good shred but your music can take me to places those other styles cannot. Its meditative.....if that is even a word lol. Keep smiling and making music. Oh! and I recently bought a Strymon Cloudburst and DIG V2 based mainly on your reviews so could I request an updated in-depth review of the DIG please? All the best from Scotland.
Always on the edge of taking down my first album. I always stop myself in the end.
Wise words and a stressful situation well handled.
I have started thinking about taking some of my albums down. Not because of haters but due to indifference. There’s a certain pain to mastering obscurity, one step at a time
Wow Bill, your humility is beautiful. I think the reason you momentarily succumbed to the criticism is so that you’d be inspired to create this video. Thank you for sharing your heart, talent, and hard work with us!
Way to go Bill! Love your content, wisdom, and art! Keep it coming. It’s too bad that there are haters out there. It kind of makes me wonder…don’t the haters have better things to do with their time? I guess it’s true, hurt people hurt people. Sorry that you had to go through this. Keep rockin’ brother.
You are a good man, and this type of humility and honesty is what the world needs now. It's not just the music, it's your ability and courage to show your art AND process of thought and decisions that we can have as an example.
Thank you.
Great video!
Who even buys music any more? Well I do and one of your albums is one of my personal goto favourites. Wood is often playing in my car on the way to work keeping all of the other drivers that little bit safer. They all owe you
Love you Bill
❤ we've all been there m8. I usually just remove those comments. They are not useful to me, or to anybody really. Take care, and thank you for your brilliant artistry and what you bring to the community. You truly are a gem 🥳🥰
Keep being you, Bill! That's what got you to this point in the first place!
Well Bill, I didnt takenmine down but instead wouldnt upload whole albums especially early ones. Because people said instrumentals are boring and my music is too weired . darnit
This was profound stuff. Honestly though, I initially thought the "I made a big mistake" was going to refer to buying the Strat. :D :D :D
Haters gonna hate, they don't care where they direct it. Your channel is unique and your music is fantastic!
Am I the only one that hears what sounds like bad cable/connector crackle for the first half of this vidya? Don’t let the haters live rent-free in your head, Bill. You are making inspiring music and helpful instruction. Keep it going. 😊
no, you heard the looper pick up on Bill plugging in his guitar and I liked that very much!
You’re an inspiration, my guy
Bill, as if I couldn't admire more, I do for you sharing your vulnerability here. For starters, it takes courage to share your teaching and music art as you do. Further, it is an evolved and emotionally mature person who can do what you do in sharing what happened for you in this video. What kind of world would we live in if more people, especially men, were able to share like this? I suspect there are always going to be those who don't or can't appreciate what we have to share. For me, being a viewer for the past 3-4 years now, I have come to consider you a friend I haven't met in person. To many of us out here I imagine, you are a kind, skilled teacher, and you provide a place to go to calm our nervous systems both with your teaching and with the thoughtful energy you bring with your music. Thank you for modeling such a positive lesson to us all, Bill.
Bill. Here’s a little “tonic” for you…Go give a listen to the old CSN song: “Almost Cut My Hair.” (“…but I’m not givin’ in an inch to fear…”)
Many of us-even those of us of a certain be who have been at this music stuff a long, long time-still have to deal with these feelings that erupt from time to time. It can be paralyzing. Your video is a truth we all should review every once in a while. Thanks!
Well done Bill. Yes it happened to me, even in real gigs. The only answer remains: go on!
yup some people will love what you do and some people will not, you shouldn't care too much about any of them. when they pay you for a specific project you should but otherwise it's your art and your voice and you are the only one who decides what you wanna say and how you wanna say it. congratulations for your channel, it's one of my favourites, every time i learn something new and the music is heart warming
When I get into that mode in my own head, I go "I'm not a musician on this track, I'm a CREATOR OF AUDIO AIR SCULPTURES - I'm creating wiggly air". Ignore the haters and keep on keeping on. You don't always have to be a "musician", you can be a producer of "wiggly air." I didn't take one of my videos down, I took one negative comment down because it was not productive or conducive for good discourse. Some people aren't gracious and need to be nuked out of the comments.
Idiots hating on Ebows make me laugh. You're doing things right, Bill. I'm proof that what you do impacts people for the better. It was because of you that I got into ambient guitar in the first place!
Bill,
The first time I ever “tried” to listen to Terry Kath’s FREE FORM GUITAR I made it to about 3 seconds before I shut it off. Horrible! Then I got mad… Why would they put that on a record? What is the point of that? Etc… Etc… I play guitar but it still didn’t make any sense. Some time later it came on when I was in the garage under a Jeep and I couldn’t get up to change it. I heard the whole thing involuntarily. Totally different reaction the second time round as it unfolded. THEN I got it. I understood as a guitar player AND as a listener. Sometimes in your head (Bill’s head) you come across a door and you say, “What’s in that room?” Why wouldn’t you express it? Why wouldn’t you see what it’s like? Anybody that’s ever picked up and instrument and played has done the same thing. The ones that set themselves apart are the ones that show everyone else what is in the infinite places in their head; for the revelation and maybe to encourage it in other musicians. So I try to listen to music with a proper frame of mind; respectfully. Wow, that was in Bill’s head and he had the courage to show it! A listener needs that same sense of exploration or else why bother? So if somebody hates, well, I feel sorry for them. They live in their ONE ROOM miserable 24/7 and can’t help but spread hate.
Glad you didn’t delete it permanently. It was an interesting room! BTW Playing ambient guitar while you narrate about ambient guitar that triggered people was a nice touch too. 😉
Don't feel ashamed Bill, it is mistakes that people learn from and you're only human.
While recording my first CD, and after publishing some stuff on SoundCloud, i learned that i tend to do quite the opposite: publish too early! My tracks are, at a certain point, just sketches that still need a lot of work and polishing.
While some of my friends, usually relatives and non-musicians, tend to say it is awesome and wonderful, at first hearing, i learned that what they actually mean to say is this:
Respect for what you're doing here, something we could never do. Well done!
And fortunately i had some other friends that are musicians and recording artists who say what i not always like to hear, but which is actually good to hear: This track stinks, that track is going nowhere, another track needs some reworking etc.
So in the end i think we end up similar: growing confidence in a certain area and appreciating our lessons learned. And continuing to work on our music with joy and happiness.
This brings out a book recommendation “Pleasing People” by Lou Priolo.
I think the most important thing to remember is that only people who are in a bad place in their own life would waste their time leaving negative comments. Pity them
99 compliments ignored but 1 troll gets what he wanted
Nothing moves faster than self doubt. Music is art, the only person that has to like it is you.
Soy chileno, tus musica me encanta en especial la que haces con guitarra acustica. Siempre hay idiotas que tratan de arruinarte. Pero siempre hay personas que aprecian lo que haces. Yo aprecio y disfruto lo que haces a pesar que no entiendo ni una sola palabra de ingles. Pero siento y me emociono con tu musica. GRACIAS!!!
We love what you do, Bill.
I appreciate your humility, Bill. Don't let the negative comments get to you. There is nothing wrong with you - their comments say more about their writer than their reader. Take care!
Thanks for this video Bill.
I've received negative comments on my humble videos. Inspiring to hear your message in this one, makes me want to think more about creating with the intention of sharing. Maybe even getting a nice camera...not just looping in private for my own pleasure.
You’re a lovely man Bill. An inspiration, and instrumental (pardon the pun!) in my guitar life. I’ve learned so much from you and continue to look forward to your videos and your music. Play on…
Ps - noticed your using a Lehle Mono S in this vid. I’ve just had one delivered today 😮
This ist what I learnd from my son playing soccer. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. He never quit even If they lost at high numbers 😅.
We will stay with your channel. You make great contents.
You are an excellent musician and creator, don't let negative posts on the net spoil your mood. I think we are close in age, that means we can be over it. You are very inspiring and kind, and some people (unfortunately, musicians too) are not like that. Stay healthy and keep creating. Warm regards, Pavel CZ.👍👍👍
Sometimes the comments that sting the most are often the ones that correlate to our own self-doubts or insecurities. Often times the negative voices in the world and the ones in our head are both wrong. Keep at it!
Bill. You are a magnificent musician. I would give all I own to have 1% of 1% of your skills.
You didn't make a mistake. Music is subjective and some things aren't for everyone and your interpretations are valid as long as you and you alone are happy with the results. Always play and create for yourself first and foremost! Never play for the crowd as there will always be haters or those who can't appreciate/understand what you are doing.
Agree. Art came from you not from what other people think about you.
See Van Gogh...
Love your channel, love you, love your playing...post whatever you want to express yourself. Nothing matters after that.
Love you Bill! We are living and making art in a fallen world. Keep blessing us with the gift of song that the Lord has given you!
Thats the only thing that puts me off Bills music is when he mentions religion which i hate, and just for the record the 'LORD' died some 2000 years ago if he ever existed at all.
Thanks for sharing 💙 I've been there. I even wrote the song about the haters problem
The great Brene Brown said, "don't try to win over the haters, you're not the jackass whisperer."😅 Keep sharing your light Bill, it's all good.
I really want to hear that carol now
This Video is a masterpiece!
The 'haters' will always be there and as you say Bill, they usually are sad little creatures with sad little lives mostly. Constructive criticism however can be good but we all get the 'haters' from time to time. I think you are right, let them vent but trust your own art.
Keep playing the music that inspires you and the right people will pay attention.
I love the haters! why do you ask? they hated it so much that they took the time out of their day to say so, so...that to me is a win