How To Start A Songwriting Career?

Anyone Who Knows About Songwriting In Nigeria Come Here Please

Please, anyone wit info on how I could start a songwriting career in lagos should let me know how i'll do it.

Songwriting is good, but who'd pay you for your creativity here -as intellectual property rights is non existent.
That's the reason why you might end up not getting paid for your creativity.

I've written several songs.
The only thing that pays in Nigeria is doing it yourself because a lot of talents waste.

Writing a song is no problem, it's all about making it into music.

Well to start up or off with a studio, you would be needing roughly about 300 to 500 thousand naira. you need good speakers, a good and high speed processing PC either desktop prferably for cost sake. Then also you would need a sound card, a very good keyboard, an amplifier, a mixer, 16 or 24 channel mixer. A microphone,  not stage microphone if you really want the best. Go for a standard studio microphone. Hmmmmm,  whatelse,  yeap! You also needsome music producing sofwares because music has really gone digital except you are trying to set up an analogue studio, you'll be needing some other things like some live instruments. Well I'll get back to you when I get more info okay? I hope the info helps you.

I just finished a couple of Demos but where is the marketer, where is the dough? ? ?

I dont know where to start from but i guess i'll have to put it one by one for you all. Is not as if i know all but the little i know should help.
I'll love to start with the songwriting aspect. I do a bit of songwriting too and I'll tell you its not something I can explain like these. I think all you need to do is to put yourself in whatever you want to write. Be lost in it and sing it like you want to peform it the next day. First, try to know what you want to write about and then write out a story line of what you want to do pass across. Afte that, create a tune for it and plan on how to fix in your lines verse by verse.
It might not work for everyone the it works for me. For me, i dont have to crack my brain to write a song, it just come. And when it comes, i just write. It only delays if i've not gotten the right words for the song i want to write. For more info on how to write songs, you can contact me,  (snatchmore@yahoo.com).
For those that have written songs and want an avenue to sell, there's an entertainment outfit that's coming up very soon(in a month or less)that will connect songwriters with buyers. All you need to do is write as many songs as possible and you're connected to whoever wants it. Sounds nice isn't? The entertainment outfit is called HONEYWORLD ENTERTAINMENT.
The outfit also will be needing the services of songwriters as either staff or inhouse consultants. So, you have a whole lot to choose from.
I think i'll have stop here so that u can all digest that. hoping to hear from u.

Nice thread.  Keep sharing!

read all ya post
right from my duty post
it cold, presently putting on my rain coat
browsing from my pda phone,


ya'all good guys  n here,


i write little of rap,


maybe we can fix business together, i need a good writter of rap song,


we can form Dbang and Don jazzy,


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[i][/i] i write a lot of songs but still holding on to singing them myself. in case u know anyone whos interested in singing them, pls let me know.i might be willing to give them for free for a start.

This is true. Playing mostly the piano is the only way You can arrange your songs properly.

how do u mean by means of developing your talent?i really dont know what u want to do but if u care to share with me, u can mail me,  snatchmore@yahoo.com. i can definately carry u along every step of the way only if u're ready to move along. take care.

Well i' ve writen couple of songs and recorded some few. But then i had a good job and was not confident of how producers then do music. My producer then was a camerounian who latter travelled to France with 'CHOP I CHOP' Etien  'T' boy since then i lost contact with music. BUt when it is in born it never leaves, you just write every day and thats my case. Though am trying to go back to studio soon.

The act of writing songs comes from feelings. Some times it realy depends on your mood. Some times you dream and put down the songs you hear or sing and latter they become your songs.

To start writing especially without an instrument you gott listen to a steady beat and place your words either in twos or fours to land with the staedy beat you alone may be hearing. Like :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7= beats

Mama left you when u was younger eh
Dady no come to yo
Left yo in a limbo yeh
Back in the little ghetto

Goto play my guitar
dey make make ma little pay
looking for survival
every day make you read ya bible eh

Chorus

Na so life be yeh
na so life be yeh
na so life be yeh
You go make am when you work hard.

i myself am a fuckin rap artist! the problem aint droppin the hit songs; we do that every day its how to get pay thats the probs.we are in kaduna but this stupid place has nothin for us so we are bringin our videos to lagos.being a producer aint easy oh and no nigger is ready to buy any song so guy its better you go sing am urself.thats haw naija is

writing lyrics requires practice. many writers dont get ahead because they're not ready tosubmit their work for appraisal and critical comments that can be of help.  this is a few tips on songwriting.
1. Let your vocabulary be simple to understand for a start.
2. Let the song have a theme.
3. Always have a pen and paper handy, you can be inspired at any time and anything can happen.
4. Learn to use rhymes.
5. Let your song have a meaning. Read it to yourself and sing it to someone as another songwriter's song.
6. Dont rush to the studio or to sell, we have enough junks on air.
7. Send it to songwriter's company overseas for appraisal. it won't cost You a dime.
8. Be original. Be yourself.
9. It is important that your lyrics should have a message. things that you are not happy about or things that make you happy.

Please do.  I look forward to hearing your music on MTV Africa.

to me ,personally i think,as an upcoming artist in naija,it aint cool to keep getting  cheese,alwayz on mind,just keep doing your thing no matter where u reside,as 4 me rap is what i like doing,i gat sth i do to get paid,still planning to spend like15 grand,one 1 track that i aint rushing to push to fm,i gat three demos down now,still drooping,nat really giving a mess about the cheese,ama do it when i think the time is right,GINO really inspired me alot, maybe planning to buy ya own systems could also help,drooping tracks your own way.i dont really believe in all trs shits abt record deal in naija,they are not just real.they wait 4 u to bve established bf they sign u,peace.