About

I started this blog back in 2012, but didn't really do anything with it until November 2015 where I started to publish a tune every Friday. The blog is linked up with YouTube and for a few years I was able to monetise between the two. To be honest - it only actually brought in about £60 in that time before YouTube changed the monetisation requirements so now it relies on donations.

A little bit about me. I'm a classically trained double bass player. I have a PGCE in music teaching specialising in instrumental music teaching. I also have a masters in Education specialising in online instrumental music teaching. I left all of that behind when we left our day jobs to become full time touring folk musicians in 2011.

During the Covid19 pandemic we lost all of our touring income (which is basically all our income) so I buried myself in making videos. I expanded what massively increased my output to try to get back to monetisation status.  I still haven't managed this and still rely on donations. I don't want to put any of these videos behind a paywall (using something like Patreon) as I want to try to reach as many players as possible. I've drawn on all the skills I had working in educational online research.