The thing is that some people study very carefully what makes a video on YouTube popular; usually there should be some “wow effect” with decent overall quality. Aside from making impressions I don’t see how working with loops can be a lasting occupation. And we know that the same “wow” effect can’t work twice. These videos are shared as a conversation piece; the more views they get, the more YouTube offers them to watch and it keeps working as a circle.

None of songs that I play can be played with this method. Okay, maybe a few.

Clearly, musicians in these videos are very serious about music in their lives; not sure if we can judge by them a younger generation altogether.

I think, an arranger will “always” be a small and contemporary version of a home piano. Certainly, you can just buy a digital piano, which are popular as well; but I believe that some extra capabilities and smaller size are very tempting for a lot of people; and then it’s all about financial capabilities of a buyer; for someone it’s PSR-E463, for someone it’s Genos.

Also, any younger generation eventually becomes an older one. Not that they should come to an arranger afterwards; but, well, I’m watching now a black-and-white movie with Cary Grant, made in 1952, and I have recently watched a dozed films like this; so with no feeling of nostalgia (the films are totally new to me) I can say that in many aspects they seem to be superior to modern ones.

Listening to some hip-hop with friends now, a youngster can end up listening to Beatles or Sinatra in 20-30-40-50-… years; or to some renewed versions of these songs; and if this youngster is also a musician, he would want an arranger to play them.

There are a lot of old (30+) Russian songs in my repertoire which I learnt just because I liked to play them. My parents never listened to them when I was growing up, so it has nothing to do with memories or nostalgia. What I’m trying to say, I guess, is that it’s hard to predict the future, what will or won’t be popular, or how many more arrangers are there to be released.