Plus Minus Interesting (PMI) Table, The Unique Way to Define Your Next Project as a Musician
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Do you always feel stuck to plan your own next music project? Maybe you would to make an Album for your portfolio? But in real cases, you actually don’t need that. A musician has many considerations for doing a project. Money, a bunch of ideas, time, and many more become significant considerations. Musicians usually don't have careful consideration, they do the project only using their intuition often, and It’s totally wrong. So there is something good way for them to consider the project wiser and more impactful.
Musicians could try The Plus Minus Interesting (PMI) table to think, define, analyze, and also decide on the next project. It could be anything, for example, making an album, music video, a single, brand collaboration, and many more. Basically, the PMI table helps people to get identify the positive and negative factors associated with one kind of topic.
PMI table has three columns, these are plus, minus, and interesting. Plus column is to identify the positive aspects. It could be the benefits and the good impact of a project. The second is a Minus column which identifies the negative aspects. This part will help people to decide more carefully because It actually would answer the question of ‘Why’ that brings up a strong reason people choose the decision. The last one is the Interesting column that let people put a curiosity or make observations and identify potential impacts. These three columns also usually have a correlation so don’t be confused for defining which one is Plus, Minus, or Interest.
This is an example of a PMI table that is related to a musician's project
‘Is it a good choice to perform live after making an Album?.’
By looking at the table above, the conclusion is there are more Plus that be found, so the live performance is the best choice to do after making an album. But the note is this musician should answer the questions in the Interesting column to make sure It will go well as the musician wants.
The last one, as a writer I want to say please be careful to make a decision each your music project. Don’t let your money, time, and stamina bring out without a huge impact. You can make your own project effectively and also profitable.