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https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Was your bass tuned B-E-A-D (low to high) for it's raining/i'm crazy? | you are the first person to actually notice that. all the bass (and everything) is actually done on keyboard, and i use notes all the way down to B (because i can!) but my real bass is only a 4 string. so in the videos, to keep some appearance of musical accuracy, i play everything a 4th up. (otherwise, what would i do on those low C's) so this basically simulates the appearance that i am playing a BEAD bass. this can be problematic when the fills get really high. on some songs that don't go below E, i just stick to standard |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Hi Bill, I have a question for you. Do you do what you do (music, videos, vines) for passion or to satisfy some kind of obsession? Btw I think you are great and a source of inspiration for me.
Peace | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Has this question been asked before | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what was inspiration for "we could just get high"? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Can I has snail time full extended version w/o jail time | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Hey Bill, I'm thinking about buying a keyboard to start making some music on. Any suggestions for a brand, model, etc.? | the only thing that matters is that loud and soft notes are different. before you buy it, hit a note soft and then hit it hard and make sure it's different |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | is pluto a planet | what's a planet |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Will you ever go to Vidcon? | sure, if they invite me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do i talk to cats | any way you want! |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | have you thought about expanding your patreon page (e.g., adding some info about who you are and what you do, what the money goes towards, goals to let us know when you can live off of patreon money and be able to create full-time) and/or making a video on your channel advertising your patreon? i respect your anti-ad stance and decision to stick to your artistic integrity, and I bet a lot of people who watch your work, if they knew you weren't making money from your videos on youtube, would understand your anti-ad stance and pitch in so that you can create full-time (i only know about your anti-ad stance, for example, from reading this questions page; otherwise, i might've thought you were doing pretty well-off after releasing the History of Japan). i don't know, maybe that's something you think is lame or tacky or just a different kind of ad, but when someone encountering your patreon is confused as to if it's your real patreon or n
ot, i th
ink maybe you can stand to make donating to you clearer on the user-end. | all that stuff seems gross to me. i am very pleased that i was able to make it as minimal as it is. working on making the lectures stop |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | so you went to the shorty awards, do you have the slightest idea if you are going to other places where online content creators go like vidcon or whatever? | sure, if they invite me |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How did you decide to make the history of Japan video and what did push you to do it? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what do you think about the uk leaving the earth and starting a colony on the moon? | seems legit |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Thoughts on Brexit? (The UK is free from the tyrannical European Union, hurray!) | seems legit |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what was the reason behind the last argument you won? I feel like you'd be good at winning arguments | most arguments i have are with myself. and most of them are still going on |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | combien de francais est-ce que vous parlez? | i'd say a medium amount |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | So do you like vaporwave bill? as what you write sounds like vaporwave to me man. | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How many months or years was your longest relationship with someone you loved? | 4 years |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what happens when you die? | anything |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How do I become such a great guy like you? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | tips on self learning piano? | try all the notes, they are all different, it's crazy |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What inspired you/drove you to do what you do? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Have you considered writing a book on how to create quality content? | i have a lot to say on the subject, and i have said a lot of it already, and will say more of it in the future. some of it is spoken into video/audio, some of it is written into letters and words. not sure if that counts as a book. i understand books are usually on paper, and have a minimum packet size, and also can't be updated, so |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Why are people so mean? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | You said that you think that your bedroom walls are light blue... Have you just never really paid attention, or are you colorblind? | it is very subtle -- and now that you mention it, i did notice it. and a few years ago i was planning to make a video with a view of the top corner of the wall/ceiling (the ceiling is white and the walls are very light blue) with a jingle or something saying "my room is colors" |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | You should make a baby with Elon Musk? | i'm sure he can make his own babies |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you have any idea of what is at the end of time? | everything, all at the same time |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how many languages do you know | 1.4 |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How do I improve my visualization tools? | relax |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How do u get motivated? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | So I was thinking about snail time and I thought of..... WHALE TIME! what do you think? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | if i offered to buy you a new computer would you take it? | you have to teach me how to use final cut X too, because i am currently up against a wall of obsolescence and i will be forced to re-learn everything i know when i switch to a new computer |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How do you make your videos? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | History of Russia? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | I feel like I've lost a direction to take in my life, what do you think I should do to find a new one? | it will find you when you least expect it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Have you considered linking your patreon in your youtube video comments? Figuring out how to contribute to your art is actually sort of hard right now & requires navigating through your website. You should make it easier to support you! | it IS in the comments. it's in the first line of the description, and i also used to reply to Every comment of "how do i donate" with " |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how did you got inspired for making the song and vid of new canaan? i really love it | was in penn station one time and i was just like 'damn, there's trains here that go to the entire world, i just pick somewhere and see what's there. even if it's nothing, i don't care, i want to go.' so 4 different times that month (may 2009) i took a songbook and went to a random place, and wrote a song on the way. new canaan got some very very small edits (mainly in the last verse) in 2012. got recorded in 2014 on the wednesday song schedule. then it came up for a tuesday music video a few months later, and being almost 3 minutes, it was extremely ambitious to fit in to the schedule... basically means i had to do the video in about 1 day, which is why it is Extremely low budget... just did like 1 full length vocal take, 1 drum take, maybe did a couple specific bass fills.... and there's hardly any graphics... the occasional train or map just barely makes it interesting enough.
ultimately i'm glad it got recorded, it was very high on my most-wanted list (mainly because of that license plate line, honestly) for many years |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what's your favorite non-hungarian band? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | bill! the question submit page says thabk you, but the title of the page says thank you! are you going to fix this, or was it intentional? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Do you think of ideas as members of a massive, ever-growing backlog that threatens to crush us all with the impossible task of bringing everything to fruition?
I did, and it made me really stressed out.
It might be helpful to think of them as an infinite stream of creativity, flowing from and to nothing, and you can grab an idea from it and finish that one, and let the others pass through, since new ones always keep flowing in.
I did that, and now I'm a little bit lazier, but a whole lot less stressed out, so I think it evens out. | i have no idea what you're talking about |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Have you ever felt like throwing something on the ground? | most things are already on the ground |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | where's waldo?? | he's in england, and his name is actually wally |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | r u human?????????????????????????????????????? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | why is your logo an umbrella? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Why do you make lounge-y music? Why not rock or electroswing or string quartets? | i have never been to a lounge, i don't know what music they play. but i assume you are referring to the music in |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | can you do a video with you dressed in a woman's wedding dress? | no sorry |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | did you forget to shave the piano again? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | have you ever been insecure about hearing your voice on recordings? (spoken or singing) i find that im hindered in making music by the fact that im never happy with the way my singing voice sounds, is it just something one has to used to hearing over time? | you can get over it, if you want |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you take peoples ip when they submit questions? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what would you do for 1000$ but not for 100$ | log on to facebook |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | are u a dweeb | i will check |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what's your biggest fear, bill? | people that say your name when it's already obvious they are talking to you |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you believe in fate? | what's fate |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you have any pet peeves? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do u feel about the fact that the world is running out of sand | they are inventing fake sand, which tastes almost as good |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | did you ever take musical lessons? (piano, guitar) | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how can anyone live with the fact that we are just some creatures floating in space on a forsaken rock | it's not forsaken, it's sacred and holy. how u think all this light and trees and blessed shit got here |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how can i be friends with someone even though im too scared to talk to them? | i wouldn't know |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do you feel when people tell you there's a typo in your stuff? (even though it's probably there on purpose" | i think it's great. if it's on a web page, i will fix it right away (unless it's supposed to be there). if it's in a video or tweet, i can't fix it. and it's a little embarassing to find it in a video, but some of the videos were made very fast on a tight schedule, so.. whatever. life gose on |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | People often see your videos as pieces of comedy but when you make them, is there a deeper meaning to the videos? | which one |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | it hink umbrellas are sexy. what do you think of umberllas? | they are actually kind of dangerous, you should be careful when opening them. you could get cut if you do it too fast |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Hey Bill what do you use to make your videos | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Wait so are you still living in Brooklyn | i'm not telling you where i live |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What are your thoughts on getting high on drugs | does the opportunity for career advancement count as a drug |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | 01001000 01101001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01110000 01101001 01101110 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00111111 | i think there are probably better uses for it than this |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | have you ever smoked weed? (i am not police) | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what's "the road" about? (which road, specifically?) | more of a writing experiment. written in early 2012. hadn't written anything in a long time, and 2011 was more about chasing 'normal' writing techniques, and writing using text and recorders, using verse-chorus form, etc... But at this point i was getting restless and missed the days when i used to write songs on paper, beginning to end, in the library. (string-writing, or chain-writing ... train-writing .. whatever you want to call it). So i just hit the page, and 'the road' came out. i just went wherever i wanted to go, and the whole thing stays about equal melodic and harmonic density, yet without any real repeating patterns of any kind. changes keys all over the place. a fun time to get really frisky with key changes. might be inspired by some of the crazier donald fagan writing. the lyrics just came out automatically. everything changes after the "now i know" part .... and i'm not sure exactly what that means. in a song like this about "searching" it might seem surprising to eventually "find" the thing! but it just happened. and the mood sounds a bit strange after that, especially converging on the last line (which i didn't know was going to be the title until the end) .... almost feels like i'm saying everything's fine and i found my way, but it's obvious listening to the harmonic mood that something's not totally cool. |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | bill what's i your email | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what are your thoughts on the bee movie | i think it has a fantastic script, and i love to read it every time someone submits it to me in the question box, which i think is a nice and creative thing to do |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What do you think about musical leitmotifs? I've seen a decent amount of people who have heated opinions against them. But, I think if they are integrated into other storytelling media, they work well. For example, the video game " Undertale " is really good at using leitmotifs to expand its themes. | i am not familiar with the word leitmotif. i've actually never seen or heard that word before |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | It's so cool you are answering this questions! So, what's the origin / inspiration for "I like"? And what about that cheeky first part? | again, just breaking lots of rules and experimenting. creating hopelessly stupid lyrics, and seeing if i can save it. i suppose there is one very meaningful line in there: "it's so hard to remember what you're doing until it's done." i feel like that is a victory moment in the song, because up until then nothing has really made sense, but when you get to that line, it almost feels like everything has made sense all along .... and the line is even explaining that phenomenon as it happens. and perhaps the section that comes after that (can't see you, etc) is just the "non-caring" "i-already-did-something" "i-can-disappear-now" steam that rises in the aftermath. write date would be early august 2010 (the original chart should be on the site). song didn't get recorded until early 2011, and the video didn't get made until 2014. |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | how do ibecome your friend? | i'm not sure. i am hoping somebody will figure it out |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | i've been watching a lot of your videos recently and im wondering, what was the inspiration or background for "dance the"? i feel that's one that might have a more depth to it. | this is a very very early song, and is pretty typical of me just goofing around and saying something incredibly meaningless at the beginning, which then gives birth to something slightly less meaningless (or in this case, something else meaningless, which then leads to something slightly more meaningful). i was still in the early stages of figuring out what's possible with songs. i broke a lot of rules during this time. write date for that one is 12.25.09 |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you have a lot of content that you made or wrote that you don't plan on uploading? | i doubt it |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | the typo is when you're like "im too shy to do it", but you typed im to instead of i'm too. | wow, i can't believe no one has ever noticed that (including me) |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | kind of curious, how was the transition to long-form content in history of japan? was there anything about the process that was noticeably different/unique from making vines and songs? and i'm guessing it was also different starting from researched work on a random topic and trying to make it "your own" versus being inspired by events in your life (which seems to be how you usually get ideas)- did that trip you up any? | Everything is different when you increase the length of the project. even things you wouldn't expect to be different. and going from 7 seconds to 9 minutes is a huge difference. i already noticed how different things were when i made some 2 and 3 minute music videos earlier that year. every possible element of the project becomes very different, and new challenges are raised. one unexpected example is, processing power. when i was doing history of japan, by about 3 minutes in, the computer slowed down to the point where i couldn't do anything. and there were actually glitches starting to occur on the render!! so ultimately what i had to do was split the project up into chapters, no longer than about 1 minute. and very carefully allign them so that i could seamlessly export one and import it into the next sequence. i did the same thing when doing score. this is just one example of the many things that are unexpectedly different when the project size changes |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | why | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | did your doctor really tell you to write the creepiest so you can in barf on me? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | there's a typo in "you're free to do whatever you want to" | can you tell me where? |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what was the inspiration for "im crazy / it's raining"? | written in early 2012, i sort of was exhaused from all the years gone by of trying to write really crazy stuff, and then trying to write really normal stuff (2011) and just in general so much time had gone by trying to write in different ways, trying to improvise in different ways, writing in text (which goes back even further) .... just feeling like i had tried everything and yet i still hadn't made any of it public yet. crazy/raining sort of was like that peaceful yet kind of hopeless feeling of "well, i think i've tried absolutely everything, i've tried more things, i've tried less things, i've tried not trying things, i've tried trying too many things, ..... and i still haven't really put it together. and i have no energy left. where am i now?" there is this feeling of being totally exhausted from trying everything, and yet, the steady "rain" still falls -- the steady rain of you still wanting to do all the things you want to do. the steady feeling that you STILL want to express yourself in crazy and/or meaningful ways. the fact that even if you feel totally drained and dead, the rain still falls. that's sort of why the song sounds very plain and doesn't really have any creative melody tricks, or any strange lyrics, .... it's just like rain. i've always debated whether to record it, because i wasn't sure if it was too boring. but it came up on a randomized selection in 2015, and i reluctantly gave it a shot |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | is it hard to get the air drumming perfect for a song? i watch your videos and when you air drum it's so perfectly synced up with the song! | yes, i have to memorize the fills and notes (like on 'i'm sad'). there are a lot of videos posted on instagram of trying to get the drum video right, fucking up, and trying again. in some cases, i actually record the drum video before the final drum part is made. that way i can think freely ("think like a drummer"), and play what feels right. then i adjust the drum track in the music according to what i did in the video. i think 'chase myself through hell' was done this way, and many others |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | was your chips video really sponsored? | absolutely not |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | are you an underachiever, overachiever or are you the I don't care about categories kinda guy? | i try to acheive just the right amount |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | is creating stuff really the only way? what if not creating is actually more fulfilling than creating and we just haven't given it enough of a try yet? | if creation actually stops, then time and space don't exist |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? | sure |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | bill, this is your boss. how are those reports going? | my boss actually just texted me yesterday, he wants to produce my live show. i was flattered at the offer, but as always i need to go my own way |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | what's your favorite planet? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Are there questions that you wish people would ask you? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | You said your upcoming tweets about Prussia will likely be a flop. What do you mean by that? | a very low number of likes, compared to my other tweets |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | does it bother you that people don't realize it takes time to make quality videos? do you feel rushed and under pressure? | the pressure is my own, but i do get bothered when people don't realize how much time it takes. i saw someone on reddit say "man, i would have thought history of japan would be a 30 hour job, tops." 30 hours???? to even just LEARN the entire history of japan? the script took 2 weeks, the graphics took 50 days, the score took 2 weeks .. !!!!! i was working as fast as humanly possible. but the important thing to remember, is that i can always just completely ignore comments and questions and focus on what i need to do. it is very meaningful to do questions, but i regularly have to remind myself to ignore it and stay focused |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | How to enter awesome mode? | you are the only one who can decide |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do u want a pet monkey? | |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is the color or colors of the walls in your bedroom? | i think they are light blue |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | What is your opinion on birds? | they are a type of dinosaur |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | do you ever get writers block? how do you cope? | relax |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | With how busy you are, how do you keep up with the news/current events? | if something is important enough, it usually inescapable |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Would you recommend I make the switch for making instrumentals (which I've been doing for a 3 months now) to music with vocals? Is there anything important I should know before attempting it? | remember there are no rules |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Am I right in assuming your instrumentals page consists of work you completed to hone your skills? Or is there another purpose? | kind of |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | hey do you want to be friends OR, ALSO: would you like to email time | yes, absolutely. i can't guarantee that you and i get along with each other, but it's probably worth a try |
https://billwurtz.com/questions/questions-2016-06.html | Well firstly, a Reddit AMA might get more attention for you. Secondly, it would bring forth more unique questions, and reactions. Thoughts? | i am getting attention just fine. and i don't have any reason to believe that reddit questions would be any different than they are here. in addition i have already built this page to be just the way i want, and i've answered about 3000 questions so far. i can't see a good reason to start from the beginning again on someone else's site |
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