SCHOOL OF MUSIC - GOSPEL FREESTYLE

SCHOOL OF MUSIC ::: GOSPEL FREESTYLE.

I currently have three secular Artistes in my SCHOOL OF MUSIC COACHING AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM and one of the major problems I have with all three of them is their deliberate attempt to build a career on Freestyle.

I am sure you know what a freestyle is in music but in case you don't know, it is a style that is free lol. Free of concept, most times free of message and intention. Freestyle is randomly putting words together to form a song. It's often done at a spot but can also take a process of time too.

You see erhn this is a sure recipe for failure. You can't build a music career on Freestyle no matter how good with Freestyle you are. Those who know me, know that I don't just advocate gaining Influence by blowing a song but also sustaining Influence by Consistently putting out great hit songs. To blow is the easiest thing to do. I can help an artiste put one and two together to blow a song but sustaining that level of success must be Intentional and this is achieved through distinct knowledge.

Can a freestyle blow? Yes! Especially if the artiste is a known artiste. There's also a rare possibility for a freestyle from an upcoming artiste to blow. Most times, freestyles blow through controversy. So Wizkid puts out a freestyle song, and the media starts condemning it that there's no message, no sense in the song, like what the heck is kolo bi ko, ko ko, kolo bi ko? And everyone is looking for the song and talking about it, before you know, song is everywhere. It works better with known artiste but even at that, planning to build your career on Freestyle is a recipe for failure.

There was a Nigerian artiste many years ago who was so good with Freestyle that he even had to adopt the name FREESTYLE as his stage name. TUBABA even featured him years back in one of his songs. He was known as the best Freestyle rapper. Today his career is dead like DEAD. How does this article concern GOSPEL ARTISTES?

I know somebody reading this now may be wondering, how can a gospel artiste Freestyle, do gospel artiste really Freestyle? Yes! And I will explain how that works and how like the regular secular freestyle, you can't build a sustainable career with it too. Remember that I defined Freestyle as randomly putting words together to form a song.

This is very common with most gospel Artistes. Most artiste just put popular Christian words together to form a song. And just like I also said of freestyle earlier, such songs, are free of distinct Messages, free of concept and intention. This give birth to abstract songs. Songs like this will never go anywhere. Will this kind of song blow by accident? Possibly yes! But can this artiste sustain a career with this? Emphatically NO!

If you understand how song writing works, you would easily spot songs that are merely Freestyles. You see erhn, song writing is poetry. Have you even seen a poem that just have random words? With no distinct Message, Concept and intention? No right? But a lot of gospel artistes know plenty familiar words within the church so they just put the pieces together and form a song. Hello! You are simply freestyling ooo. Even if you manage to blow by accident like that, you will soon be irrelevant and become and upcoming artiste again.

In my SCHOOL OF MUSIC COACHING class, one of my mentees sent me song lyrics and I asked her where did those two last lines came from? She replied that she just used them to complete the song. Now she's wondering how I knew that? It is because as I follow the lyrics and the message she was passing in the song, I got lost at those two last lines and I knew those where not part of the song, she just put words together to complete those lines. That for me is freestyling. People can actually tell when they listen to your songs that you are just putting pieces of words together to form songs. I noticed it this morning on TBN PLAY. it is really sad.

I love to watch TBN PLAY and this morning, they played a lot of songs from unknown gospel artistes and it was very disturbing for me as I sense a lot of Freestyling in their music until MARTIN PK song "Your are Great" came on. I said to myself again that Influence is truly Intentional. You see those are the top are not there by accident ooo. Not even by annointing ooo. They know something you don't know yet.

Music is written on Concepts and if you don't know this by now, you have no business with song writing.

Amachree Ikijana Alex

Celebrity Music Coach
Music Content and Business Coach

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