Making Time for Projects

Jason76

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With my drumming lesson project time is a huge problem! The amount of work still to be done - is unbelievable. I mean, I think I need 200 - 500 posts with at least 4 or 5 examples each.

Anyhow, between caring for an elderly parent and just doing self-maitenance chores (cooking, laundry etc.) there is literally only enough time to maybe make one post a day - and that won't cut the cheese.
 
Family and other work always comes first in life. Unless you making allot of income from an site that you own then that can be your full time job but the outcome that most of as on here who owns an site just do it for pleasure and a hippy hoppy.

members on the site and traffic gotta understand it.
 
That's the problem. A lot of real life gets in the way so it's hard to find the time to work on these projects. I agree with Empire on this one.
 
Is there any way you can make your website/community valuable without having those 500 posts?
I know you have your goal, but perhaps the best way to move forward with your project is to aim to reach that goal in a year and focus on more short-term goals until then. If you can contribute 1 of your quality posts per day, but embrace other parts of your project too, then you can create a great website that is even better in 1-2 years, but still worthwhile now.
 
Is there any way you can make your website/community valuable without having those 500 posts?
I know you have your goal, but perhaps the best way to move forward with your project is to aim to reach that goal in a year and focus on more short-term goals until then. If you can contribute 1 of your quality posts per day, but embrace other parts of your project too, then you can create a great website that is even better in 1-2 years, but still worthwhile now.

It's possible - but I WANT IT NOW - to quote the Willy Wonka movie, lol.
 
https://thedrumlesson.com/index.php?threads/799/
It's not the best - as in it's not video - but good enough for a lot of people.

That's pretty cool though.
Now, this is going to sound crazy to you.... but it might spark your interest.
It's not easy, but you *can* do all of this with code in a few different languages. Basically you convert your drum sheets into a format a computer can read, the computer then takes that & generates a human-readable drum sheet and plays the sound effects on the webpage w/o a page download.
Example:
http://www.gootar.com/drums5/drums5.php

As you can see, it is reading a format that tells it when to play notes, how fast to play, etc. You can use different symbols (if you made a custom version) to make different percussion noises & you're only limited by what you have a recording of. You can come up with crescendo / decrescendo symbol, and so much more. For example a lowercase 'b' can be a soft hit on the bass, and uppercase 'B' can be a loud hit. B- (b dash) can be a base hit w/ a quick stop, and B+ can be a bass hit that you let ring out.

There's so many options.
I just know as a programmer, I would personally create a code to do something (like make 500 of ANYTHING) than actually make 500 of something. Obviously this next example is easier than generating drum sheets, but I hope it gives you an idea of how automation can solve your issue 🙂

A more primitive example:
I had to generate 10 different work sheets for math problems every week when I worked as a paraprofessional years ago.
Instead of formatting each sheet like other paraprofessionals did each Monday morning, I created an algorithm that took a range of numbers (ex: 0-10), the mathematics symbol (add, subtract, etc) you wanted, and generated a work sheet. I generated hundreds of different worksheets for each range & each symbol, and put them on a folder in the server. None of the paraprofessionals had to make worksheets for the teachers again 🙂

Creating anything in bulk is always better done with code 🙂
 
https://thedrumlesson.com/index.php?threads/799/
It's not the best - as in it's not video - but good enough for a lot of people.

That's pretty cool though.
Now, this is going to sound crazy to you.... but it might spark your interest.
It's not easy, but you *can* do all of this with code in a few different languages. Basically you convert your drum sheets into a format a computer can read, the computer then takes that & generates a human-readable drum sheet and plays the sound effects on the webpage w/o a page download.
Example:
http://www.gootar.com/drums5/drums5.php

As you can see, it is reading a format that tells it when to play notes, how fast to play, etc. You can use different symbols (if you made a custom version) to make different percussion noises & you're only limited by what you have a recording of. You can come up with crescendo / decrescendo symbol, and so much more. For example a lowercase 'b' can be a soft hit on the bass, and uppercase 'B' can be a loud hit. B- (b dash) can be a base hit w/ a quick stop, and B+ can be a bass hit that you let ring out.

There's so many options.
I just know as a programmer, I would personally create a code to do something (like make 500 of ANYTHING) than actually make 500 of something. Obviously this next example is easier than generating drum sheets, but I hope it gives you an idea of how automation can solve your issue 🙂

A more primitive example:
I had to generate 10 different work sheets for math problems every week when I worked as a paraprofessional years ago.
Instead of formatting each sheet like other paraprofessionals did each Monday morning, I created an algorithm that took a range of numbers (ex: 0-10), the mathematics symbol (add, subtract, etc) you wanted, and generated a work sheet. I generated hundreds of different worksheets for each range & each symbol, and put them on a folder in the server. None of the paraprofessionals had to make worksheets for the teachers again 🙂

Creating anything in bulk is always better done with code 🙂

Sounds awesome to me! However, I'd probably need a coder - and that would be big bucks. OK, maybe in the future!
 
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