My innate ability to understand this technology and its ability to build relationships between artists and fans is what motivated me to make videos on Youtube originally.

There are few people who are able to articulate and understand how a lot of these pieces fit together. Some of the technology changes weekly it seems. For over a year clients have relied on me to supply them with the most accurate information on this developing industry.

This journey really stated for me over 10 years ago when the music industry was done with CD's and streaming was just dawning. Social Media was just blooming too.

I was a recording engineer at the time. I would record 14 hours a day for a couple hundred bucks. Maybe a couple times a week. Independent artists couldn't make money off their music in the same ways they used to. And they started to be able to make terrible recordings at home. Work got less and less and the studio owner kept taking longer to pay me.

I was late to the party on how to use social media. And I still don't understand streamings value. But as soon as I learned what an NFT was last year, I devoted all my time to learning about them and what direction the industry was already going in.

Of course, the pandemic is what allowed me the time to learn all of this in such a short time. The studio work had slowed, my other job closed for 9 months, I lost my car, and even sold some equipment at one point. I did however mix and produce some of my best work during this time.

After learning about NFTs I tried to find people discussing them and music. I had found none. A few random interviews with no views. I've since only heard a small handful of people discuss the cross section of converging technologies, music, and blockchain/NFT. And after realizing I knew way more than most people discussing music NFT on clubhouse, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

I created my youtube page and began creating my own opportunities and went from being at a complete rock bottom to having a completely brand new skill that is heavily in demand. I've gone as far as to learn how blockchain works and basic smart contract programming. I could project manage for a project with front and backend developers.

I tell you this for a few reasons. I know how hard this past few years have been and what it takes to keep your head above water. I also took the time to learn all the boring nerdy stuff so you don't have to.

Community building, leveraging different platforms, and utility has been my been my focus for successful NFTs. All successful NFT projects do this.

Most independent artists are focused on getting millions of streams or millions of followers. I want you to enjoy the type of successful music career that you imagine and I want to show you how to use blockchain to make it happen.

Wanna know the craziest part??? You really don't need 100k followers in order to step into this dream life.

All you need is 1,000 diehard fans that will change your life FOREVER.

Once you get to know me, or if you see my videos, you know that I keep it 100% real and try to provide the best information I can.

I keep it real but I do not know everything. I have my flaws too. Authenticity and transparency are key core values in decentralized blockchain and to everything that I do as Death Beach.

This world is riddled with the "fake and flashy gurus" and sleazy snake oil salesmen and that's not what I'm about. They are mostly talking about flipping NFTs, jumping on platforms, and not focused on the bigger picture. In my opinion, we are at the beginning of a 5-7 year long change in the entertainment industry. Now is the time to learn, experiment and build tight relationships with your community.

In the past year I have been able to learn to mint NFTs, started a youtube with videos at 18k + views, and an instagram reel with almost 80k views. My next step is build up my discord to 200 people by the end of the year and do not doubt I'll do it. Even without the discord, I have been building community and getting wins for myself in NFT with the same knowledge I am going to share with you.

This goes to show, if you build a highly engaged community you don't need thousands and thousands of followers to make an impact.

If I can do it...you can too!

Anyways, enough about me and let's get you on the right path to success so go join the Music NFT Hackathon now!