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For a long time now I’ve had three milestones I’ve wanted to hit with my ukulele videos. Note that these are not goals per se, since I don’t have much control over them (apart from trying to make the best videos I can), but I consider these milestones to be a reasonable measure of any “momentum” I’m managing to achieve with them. So they are, in order:

1. 1000 or more views within a month or less of posting the video
2. 1000 or more views within a week or less of posting the video
3. 1000 or more views within 24 hours or less of posting the video

Mind you, better than half of my currently available videos are over 1000 views—thanks all of you!—but none have achieved that number in so little time. Teddy Bears Picnic is actually within shooting range of 12,000! The thing there is that it’s taken nearly 4 years to get there.

So I’m happy—nay… ecstatic!—to report that sometime between 8:30am (when I first checked it today) and 1:30pm I crossed 1000 views on my latest video, I Like Bourbon. I posted it on January 2nd so it’s taken just a bit over three weeks to do this.

I realize I’m still nowhere near those “YouTube legends” whose video views get into the 5 and 6 figure range practically before you can finish watching them, but I still consider it a WIN and it’s certainly my personal best to date.

I want to thank each and every one of you who’ve watched the video, left comments and, especially, shared it around to your blog readers, social media friends, clicked the like button, etc. Please continue to do such things!

Yes, yes… it’s not viral by any means, but it gives me hope that someday I may achieve at least the bacteriological stage! :-)

(p.s. don’t forget that if you’d like to play I Like Bourbon your very own self you can find a pdf file of its arrangement on my free songsheets page.)