I STARTED THE JOB WITH NOTHING | moved from grass to grace

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Hello everybody I trust you all having a great day in life nobody was born perfect and nobody is perfect The truth is nobody can be a hundred percent perfect but we all set ourselves on the path of perfection even though we may not really get to the end of being perfect at least we strive and work hard towards it.

In other to work yourself onto perfection they are four main attributes which i suppose we must abide these are, dedication, practice, consistency and andhard work.

  • DEDICATION: dedication is simply making yourself available and getting ready to carry out the task no matter the cost nor the challenges.

  • PRACTICE: practice works as a debugging tool in a sense that you keep practicing and keep learning, you keep seeing faults and you keep solving them all of this lead to perfection.

  • CONSISTENCY: consistency talks about a loop of practice and dedication when you keep practicing and you are dedicated it keeps you consistent.

  • HARD WORK: hard work is when you put your dedication practice and consistency in one box the products and outcome is called hard-work.



MUSIC PRODUCTION

So many years ago I started as a novice and i had desires but couldn't reach out to my desires but i kept moving because i need to keep learning So at some point I decided to make an upgrade on myself first of all it all started with the little things I loved most which was basically music.

Music and art were initially the most admiring culture and traditions I've ever encountered so i dive deep into music. In early 2015 I started music production I was basically a novice because i made much of noise than pleasing tunes. But i was happy seeing myself making music despite if it was noise or nice!

This forced me to learn the piano, understanding and identifying so fa notes in music them i began to understand the concept behind music and it really interesting but difficult as a novice. I got a personal computer and my favorite software was able tunes and fruity loop studio these were basically the best softwares for music productions.

I made a beat and a friend of mine made a vocal free style on the beat then we recorded it. Other friends listened to the record and called me a producer back in 2017 i guess i must have impressed them on that piece of tune. So i began producing more and more beats and this method of my practice, hard-work and dedication took me not to the top list but closer to my perfection every day by day. And now i can peacefully play the piano and some other music instruments like the lead/solo guitar.



MUSIC CONCEPTING & REPRODUCTION

If you keep working in an airport for a very long time even if you are just an assistant you'll definitely start learning,knowing and having some ideas on how to fly a plane even tho you're not a pilot . What do i mean by this?.

What ever you keep doing for a long time you'll definitely start exploring other branches and aspects of that business in due time. That is how i convicted myself from a beat maker and producer to a disc jockey (DJ).

My journey in the field was quite funny when i started because i had absolutely no resource and capital also lacking the exclusiveness of being a disc jokey. I was all alone with no mentor and no one to tell me if i was in the right part, doing the right thingor not but i kept my head up because i always believed in myself.

Being a DJ required alot of capital to establish and equip your brand but funny i didn't got a penny for the investment but i started and it was becoming very difficult on a daily when i see some young star DJ's and their performances.
It is a very lengthy write on the challenges i faced when i started but i kept being consistent and implementing new ideas to the job, copying other people's format and building on their ideas too.

It was quite embarrassing to host an occasion with little equipments as a DJ but i put the embarrassment behind me because i knew no condition would ever remain permanent.

Grass turned to grace in 2019 when i fell into the hands of Hnr. A. Amber Ndubisi who is the CEO of the shields event in nigeria. He saw the skill and he saw the talent then my approach and he supported what i was doing with a converted sum of about $200 that is how i bought the very first DDJ serato SB3 machine in 2019.

But the story didn't end there.

With all this, how do you know if you are now a professional DJ?

I get this answer from my audience, their reactions speaks everything i need to know about my work. When i play in a club or any casual occasion and i get sprayed on cash my head always turns big then i get on the mood to sustain the tempo with hot drops and mind blowing tricks haha. All this is telling you that you are putting the audience in their best moments also giving me a higher reputation on my job.

One day on the job, a man whose name is sen. Anefiok Akan walked up to me on stage i never met him before but he introduced himself and asked me for my phone number which i couldn't give him on an instant so he gave me his number and told me he is the commissioner under XL106.9 FM in akwa-ibom state Nigeria. I wowed inside my head and he asked me to call him when I'm free.

That was another miraculous day ever in my life and i was later invited to come on air in the radio station 106.9 FM it was the first time i ever went on air as a DJ and that was early this January another evidence of a professional work done. Further more all this set and hustles kept me away from hive throughout 2022 and i was also schooling too and running another separate program plus my disc jokey these took all the spare time i had.

Today i even have people who are willing to become DJ's as well and they are doing great because i love how fast they learn from the little things i show them. If i had a mentor when i first started i know how far i would have gone by now.

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Quickly putting it on a wrap and i say, where would i have been if i wasn't consistent, hardworking or dedicated to the job? The word consistency is my best motivation in anything i try out because the more consistent i was the closer i was to perfection. No matter what you do today that looks difficult to you, find happiness in it and be consistent you will only be surprised how far and how good you have have excelled through.

#TheTalkingPen 🖋️ #inspiration #motivation


𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝔽𝕠𝕣 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕝𝕖 𝕚 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕖𝕟𝕛𝕠𝕪𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕚𝕥.

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣

I am Richy Demson pka Dj protokkol ✍️. Contents of my blog include me being a Poet 📜 ● Fictioner 📝 ● Rhymer and poem 🔗● Blogger 👨‍💻● Author/Writer ✍️ ● Music mixologist 🎧📀● Photographer 📸💥● Therapist 💉💊● Mentor 👨‍🏫● Dancer/BBoy 🤸● Crypto enthusiasts 💰●lover of nature🌱🐌, Model 💎. You can visit my blog by clicking on the authors image above!.


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Wow, what an inspirational story. Hard work with dedication pays a lot, thanks for sharing this

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Yes. And it is what i believe in the most, consistency. Thank you so much for your time too.

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Consistency, dedication and focus are the keys to improve in whatever we are doing.

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Absolutely those are all we need to make the dream come true thank you @offia66

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Doing what you love, will always keep you consistent

Nice one

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Exactly, you just hit the head to the nail and that is the main point because i loved what i do thereby keeping me consistent

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Bravo, brothers! :)
a dj here since the 80's :P

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