Why I stopped sharing certain shinobue technique on YouTube and where you can find them

If you are reading this blog, you likely care more about improving your shinobue skills than the average viewer of my YouTube channel.

You mean a lot to me so I want to share this important information with you.

My YouTube Channel Direction

Since I began uploading content regularly to my channel, I've gained valuable insights about YouTube. Unfortunately, I've come to realize that it isn't an ideal platform for sharing the more technical aspects of playing the shinobue.

Why?

I understand that these topics are valuable; however, they don't receive many views. Most of the average viewers on my channel are either beginners or more casual shinobue learners, if they play shinobue at all. They typically don't care about the highly technical aspects of shinobue that you might appreciate. You belong to a rare group of enthusiasts.

And when videos underperform, it can negatively impact my channel's visibility since the algorithm tends to stop recommending my content. This is detrimental to my mission of sharing shinobue with the world.

Analytics

Looking at my channel's analytics, the tutorials that get the most views are the ones that are geared toward beginners.​

My tutorial "A Life Sent On" has many views and it's not for beginners, but the views mostly come from Japanese viewers, according to the analytics. And most of these viewers are not subscribing to the channel. They watch that specific video but are not interested in joining our "community", which is primarily for English speakers.

When I do covers of popular songs from anime and video games, they do very well. Some of my relaxation videos are very popular too.

But when I upload more technical topics, like diaphragmatic breathing, in a lecture-type style, they do not perform well.

So I decided to use YouTube as an INTRODUCTION point to attract people who might be interested in shinobue.

What does this mean to you?

For people who wish to move beyond the beginner stage what does this mean?

It means you should look beyond my YouTube videos and explore further.

I hope you will still enjoy and learn from my YouTube videos, since I do many types of videos, but in terms of tutorials, you will need to dig down a bit deeper to go beyond the beginner's stage.

One way to go beyond the beginner stage is to read my weekly newsletter.

I dig in much deeper on my newsletter, because I know people who read it really care about shinobue. I appreciate you very much.

While I greatly appreciate my YouTube viewers, too, I understand that not all of them will remain in our community.

I'm also working hard to create an online course and community where I can share important techniques to help you improve without being restricted by the YouTube algorithm.

What is stopping me?

What I am struggling with is TIME. I upload YouTube videos twice a week (still need to inform more people about shinobue). I also write a newsletter once a week, teach privately, practice, and perform...

I have a lot on my plate.

But if you want to get better at shinobue and explore more of this amazing culture, you will need more than what I can offer you via YouTube.

So please continue to support my effort on my channel to help me create a shinobue movement world wide, because that means more information and products will easily become available to you.

You can also help this movement by posting your own shinobue videos!!

But please know that I am working hard to offer more advanced content elsewhere.

I'm looking for volunteers and hiring video editors, as well as website and YouTube maintainers, so that I have time to work on providing online courses, more shinobue sheet music etc for people who are ready to go further in their shinobue journey!

If you're interested in being part of the shinobue movement, please let me know!