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July 3, 2013 at 10:32 pm #1274430
You seem to be using the south park method of:
1. collect underpants
2. ????
3. PROFIT!
for music. Especially if you’re not going to be performing the tracks yourself, making money as a lyricist will be a long road. You should find someone to perform your tracks and release them on the internet, like on soundcloud or youtube. Then you’ll have to start making a lot of contacts in the music industry. Usually ghostwriters work in-house for a big record label, and they don’t write “albums,” they help write two or three songs on an album, as artists usually don’t want to source the whole album from the same people. It’s highly unlikely that you’d be able to “make a few albums and then retire.” It’s a much bigger commitment than that, which is why you should do it for the love and not the money. If you go into it with money in mind, you are more easily setting yourself up for failure.July 4, 2013 at 5:09 pm #1274445@joksgez 550868 wrote:
i dont mean to knock you here, but i think you are getting a bit ahead of yourself. you’ve just got this idea in your head about making music and making money from it and now you think you’re gonna bang out a 15 track album put it on youtube and get it copyrighted and make your fortune?
no offence but i dont think its quite as simple as that
no of course not man, but its a good point…
Its more of a goal, than expectation, so if i say to myself im gonna create a 15 song album then itll push me to do it rather than just ‘im going to make songs’ see what i mean?
and its just thinking ahead and planning, i dont know much about this so i wasnt sure if i wouldve needed to copyright now or in future circumstances
July 4, 2013 at 5:10 pm #1274446@barrettone 550895 wrote:
You seem to be using the south park method of:
1. collect underpants
2. ????
3. PROFIT!
for music. Especially if you’re not going to be performing the tracks yourself, making money as a lyricist will be a long road. You should find someone to perform your tracks and release them on the internet, like on soundcloud or youtube. Then you’ll have to start making a lot of contacts in the music industry. Usually ghostwriters work in-house for a big record label, and they don’t write “albums,” they help write two or three songs on an album, as artists usually don’t want to source the whole album from the same people. It’s highly unlikely that you’d be able to “make a few albums and then retire.” It’s a much bigger commitment than that, which is why you should do it for the love and not the money. If you go into it with money in mind, you are more easily setting yourself up for failure.i have actually done one myself, i do want to recreate the instrumentals i used though, and it does sound pretty good without even auto tuning which is a hell of a shock! haha
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