Hello world! My name is Richard MacLemale, and this website is the companion to my new YouTube channel, budgetkeyboardist!
You can think of this website and YouTube channel as the sister to the website budgetguitarist.com and corresponding YouTube channel. That site has been around for over 6 years at this point, and the YouTube channel is over two years old as I type this. So it had quite a head start.
Why is one guy maintaining two websites and two channels? Oh, that’s not all I’m doing. I’m a full time web developer, and I have also released 6 albums, which you can find on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, etc. OK, so why all this stuff?
I noticed that when I made videos about home recording and keyboards on the budgetguitarist YouTube channel, they didn’t do well. At all. And when I made videos about releasing your own music, they did even worse. But I really love talking about those things. So I started the budgetkeyboardist YouTube channel and set up this website. It’s not much now, but over time, I predict it will become more popular than my budgetguitarist channel.
I love playing guitar, I love playing keyboards and recording, I love to do gigs, and so it made sense to have two different places. So now I do!
Also, the two websites and YouTube channels will make money. And pretty much every penny will go into equipment and gear. This way I’m not taking money from my regular job, and my music hobby will mostly fund itself.
You can check back from time to time, and there’ll be more content here. Yep. But for now, my efforts are going into the budgetkeyboardist YouTube channel. Please check it out if you like keyboards, home recording, and making music with tech stuff!