Creative Ways of Earning With Song Lyrics Online

Lyrics comprise the other half of any great song. Without them, the most important hobby of all which is listening to music would cease to exist. Let’s learn strategic and creative ways of making money online by creating lyrics… or even if you’re incapable of making them.

Curious? Here’s how:

• Learn the art of making captivating lyrics
• Learn some software tools
• Sell your lyrics to instrumentalists and music producers
• Collaborate with fresh, aspiring musicians
• Offer your services to busy music artists
• Sell digital artworks with famous lyrics as captions

Being a lyricist can make you rich!

Here’s an interesting fact published by RollingStone.com”

“Every time a track or record sells, all the songwriters receive a total of 9.1 cents in mechanical-royalty payments. For massive hits like “Rolling in the Deep” or “Poker Face” can make as much as $500,000 per year just in radio royalties.”

And here’s another from CareerExplorer.com:

“The average pay for lyricists in the United States is around $12.32 per hour. Wages typically start from $9.45 an hour and go up to $26.32 an hour.”

Unless you’re Adele or Lady Gaga, the first quote seems like a far stretch for someone like you. So let’s just set our sights on the second one. How could you earn an amount very close to that?

Read on.

Learn the art of making captivating lyrics

Aside from the song’s melody, a catchy phrase or sentence is what makes it compelling or catchy enough for people’s ears. Why songs from the biggest bands became globally-renowned anthems is because they are crafted using one artful element that has lived through the ages – poetry.

This should go without saying that you can’t be a good lyricist without learning how to stitch syllables into rhymes and weld them together into poems. To start with, you have to enhance your vocabulary – this should be the first most crucial step to take… the next steps would amount to nothing if you’re incapable of making captivating lyrics.

In addition to reading a lot, dissecting and studying the lyrics of the most successful artists could greatly aid you on this journey. To learn how to be a great poet or if you want to make money with poems online, read this.

Learn some software tools

Online lyrics publishing is our main goal here and for that, you have to consider learning about some software tools too. Though you can already earn with lyrics with nothing but a pen and a piece of paper, learning a software or 2 could increase your chances of making money with your craft.

To be more specific, video-editing tools are what you need for this. Here are the most recommended ones:

• Lightworks
• VideoPad
• HitFilm Express
• DaVinci Resolve

These are free and lightweight and could be easily learned. You don’t need to have highly advanced video-editing techniques, the basic drills will do since what you’ll be doing is embedding lyrics into videos or slide shows.

As you work with lyrics to be presented on video, you need to work on your sense of rhythm. You have to understand that putting the right words in the right seconds or milliseconds is vital to a good video lyrics. Learn this art or you’ll just be rejected by the people you’ll approach soon.

Now, the steps for making money. Let’s categorize them into 2 steps which include earning even if you’re not capable of making your own lyrics. Cool, right? Here’s how.

If you’re capable of making your own lyrics…

Sell your lyrics to instrumentalists and music producers

Believe it or not, there are very talented musicians out there who can really play so well, but can’t create rhymes because what they hone their craft for is perfecting their instrumentations. By proving your adeptness for lyrics creation to them, you could pitch your ideas and get paid!

Collaborate with fresh, aspiring musicians

There are also those who are very enthusiastic about making hit songs but are still uninitiated about how hits are actually made. By showing your well-crafted rhymes, preferably with the software tools mentioned above, you could lure aspiring musicians into working with you.

Once the song you made together becomes a hit, you could then split the revenue under certain conditions. This should be made clear during the initial negotiations.

If you’re not capable of making your own lyrics…

Offer your services to busy music artists

There are lots of bands out there who only care about music and nothing more. If you get to know these musicians, you’d know that most of them just put their songs out there without caring much about video lyrics and stuff like these.

Scour through Youtube or Spotify and you’ll see lots of bands like that. If you’re lucky enough to find some, offer your services to them by making video lyrics or lyrics slide shows for them. This is the reason why you’re encouraged to learn some software tools mentioned above.

This could be laborious and kind of a ‘hit-and-miss’ endeavor, but once you’ve established yourself to be good at this, other busy bands would surely approach you so you can work for them, and earn a steady stream of income in the long run.

Sell digital artworks with famous lyrics as captions

If you’re not poetic and aren’t good with words enough, how about using the lyrics of others for earning? This act can’t be called plagiarism if you quote the composer clearly. What you may do is use graphical artistry and embed them with lyrics from the hit songs that people are so obsessed with.

Using Photoshop or any other free graphics editing software like GIMP or Canva, you could make digital art, print them on t-shirts, mugs, or any objects you could think of, and sell them online. To be able to sell successfully online, there are strategies you must be familiar with, learn them here.

If you hate the idea of investing in tangible products and delivering them to people, it would be a good idea to just focus on digital art that you could sell online. There’s a huge amount of money you could make from art and photos online, learn about it here.

Pop artists and rockers are getting richer by the minute. Even if you’re not one of them, you could be a bit richer too, compared to your former self, that is. Go ahead and try the above-mentioned methods. Get a grip of those rhymes and make money with song lyrics online!

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