The Art of Music Production

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ISBN: 9781844494316 | 1844494314
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/2005

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This highly entertaining book is packed with insights from the most successful music producers and full of revealing anecdotes about the business and the stars. now in its third edition and used as a teaching tool in major colleges, it has become the definitive guide to the art - and the business - of music and record production.

Introduction

1. What Kind Of Producer Do You Want To Be?

(14)

a) All-Singing-All-Dancing-King-Of-The-Hill

(5)

b) Sidekick

(2)

c) Collaborator

(1)

d) Merlin The Magician

(4)

e) Other Ways Of Categorising Producers

(2)

2. How Do You Get Started?

(37)

a) What Are The Ways In?

(20)

i. The Musician Or Artist?

(5)

ii. The Audio Engineer...

(6)

iii. The Songwriter

(2)

iv. The DJ Producers...

(3)

v. The Self Taught Home Studio Hobbyist

(2)

vi. The Finding A New Act Routine

(2)

vii. The Who-The-Hell-Knows-How-They-Got-Started Route

(1)

b) OK - So You Want To Be A Record Producer - What Next?

(3)

c) Are Qualifications A Help Or A Hindrance?

(5)

d) So Exactly How Much Technical Knowledge Do You Need?

(4)

e) How Much Musical Knowledge Do You Need?

(2)

f) What If You Have Neither Musical Nor Technical Skills?

(1)

g) The Door's Open, The Foot's In, Now What?

(2)

3. What's The Job Description?

(39)

a) We Are Not Worthy

(8)

b) Who Takes Care Of The Administration And Paperwork?

(1)

c) Managing The Session From Day To Day

(17)

i. Pre-production

(3)

ii. Recording The Live Band

(3)

iii. Recording An Orchestra Or Big Band

(1)

iv. Overdubbing Live Musicians

(1)

v. The Computer-Based Session

(1)

vi. The Vocals

(5)

vii. Which Method Makes A Better Record - Live, Overdubbed Or Computer?

(3)

d) What Are 'They' Going To Expect Of You?

(5)

i. The Artist?

(3)

ii. The Record Company?

(1)

iii. The Artist's Manager?

(1)

4. Will They Still Love You Tomorrow?

(12)

a) What Is Your Working Life Expectancy?

(1)

b) How's Your Health?

(2)

c) What Keeps A&R People Coming Right Back To You?

(9)

i. If You're Hot

(1)

ii. If You're Not Quite There Yet

(1)

iii. If You Were Recently Hot

(1)

iv. When The Night's Closing In

(3)

v. What Prevents Them From Coming Back To You?

(1)

vi. How Else Can You Get Work?

100

(1)

vii. What's The Best Way To Handle The Show Reel/Resume/CV Tap Dance?

100

(3)

5. Producer Managers

103

(14)

a) To Have A Manager Or Not To Have A Manager?

103

(2)

b) Do They Earn Their Percentage?

105

(8)

i. Is She Just Fielding Calls Or Is She Out There Pitching For You?

105

(2)

ii. How Do You Avoid Getting Ripped Off By Your Manager?

107

(1)

iii. Does He Siphon Off Some Of Your Work To Other Producers In The Stable?

107

(6)

d) How Do You Define 'Best Manager' For You?

113

(1)

e) How Can You Find Such A Person - If They Even Exist?

114

(1)

f) How Do You Persuade Them To Take You On?

114

(3)

6. How Do You Deal With The Artist, The Record Company And The Artist's Manager?

117

(18)

a) What Should Your Relationship With The Artist Be?

117

(3)

i. Best Friends?

117

(1)

ii. Able To Fit In?

118

(1)

iii. Hang After Hours, Between Albums, Party-Hearty and Laugh At The Jokes?

118

(1)

iv. Somewhat Aloof?

119

(1)

v. Professional?

119

(1)

vi. How Do You Tell Them Something Is Not Working?

119

(1)

b) Where Does Your Responsibility Lie?

120

(6)

i. To The Artist?

120

(3)

ii. To The Record Company?

123

(1)

iii. To Yourself?

124

(1)

iv. To The Project?

125

(1)

c) What About The Drug And Alcohol Connection?

126

(3)

i. Should You Be Bathroom Buddies?

126

(2)

ii. Is It OK If It Is Outside Of Working Hours?

128

(1)

iii. What Do You Do If The Artist Does And You Don't?

128

(1)

d) What Do You Do When The Artist Freaks?

129

(1)

e) What Do You Do When The Record Company Freaks?

130

(4)

f) What Do You Do When The Artist's Manager Is A Freak?

134

(1)

7. Lawyers

135

(8)

a) How Much Will They Cost You?

136

(1)

b) How Much Should You Depend On Them?

137

(1)

c) How Much Do You Really Need Them?

138

(1)

d) What Happens When They Get It Wrong?

138

(1)

e) What Tricks Do They Get Up To?

139

(1)

f) And That's Just Your Lawyer. How Much Damage Can The Other Guy Do?

140

(3)

8. Difficulties And Pitfalls

143

(19)

a) Studio Nightmares

143

(1)

b) Serious Differences Of Opinion

143

(1)

c) The Endless Album

144

(1)

d) Lack Of Vision

144

(1)

e) Micro-Vision

145

(1)

f) Panic Stations

146

(9)

i. The Singer Can't Sing In Tune/Time

146

(1)

ii. The Band Can't Play In Tune/Time

147

(3)

iii. One Of The Musicians Is Screwing Up Every Take

150

(2)

iv. You're Calmly Cruising Up To The End Of The Album, Bang On Budget, And The Artist Decides Half Of It Is Crap

152

(1)

v. The A&R Person Hates The Mixes: Stay Calm And Survive

153

(2)

g) What Makes It Seem Like Hard Work?

155

(1)

h) How Much Loyalty Can You Expect Within The Business?

156

(4)

i. From The Artist?

156

(2)

ii. From The A&R Person?

158

(1)

iii. Final Word On Loyalty

159

(1)

i) First Girlfriend Syndrome

160

(2)

9. Success And Money

162

(18)

a) How Much Can You Make?

162

(3)

b) Where Else Does The Money Come From?

165

(3)

c) Do, Producers Earn Their Percentage?

168

(5)

d) How Can You Increase Your Chances Of Success?

173

(1)

e) What Is The Secret Of Longevity?

174

(1)

f) Hitting The Jackpot

175

(5)

10. What Are The Timeless Ingredients In A Hit Record?

180

(11)

a) The Label

180

(1)

b) The Song

181

(1)

c) The Vocal

182

(1)

d) The Arrangement

182

(3)

e) The Performance

185

(1)

f) The Engineering

186

(1)

g) How Important Is The Mix Really?

187

(1)

h) Timeliness

187

(1)

i) The Heart

187

(2)

j) Are These Rules To Which There Are Exceptions?

189

(2)

11. Frequently Asked Questions

191

(37)

a) How Much Can You Learn, How Much Is Natural Ability?

191

(1)

b) How Do You Pick The Right Project?

192

(1)

c) Do Producers Have Their Own Sound?

192

(1)

d) Should You Get Involved In The Song Writing?

193

(2)

e) New Versus Established Artists?

195

(1)

f) What About The All-Important Credits?

196

(6)

i. Executive Producer

196

(1)

ii. Album Producer

197

(1)

iii. Producer

198

(1)

iv. Co-producer

198

(1)

v. Associate Producer

198

(1)

vi. Additional Production By

198

(1)

vii. Multiple Producer Credits

199

(1)

viii. Recorded By

200

(1)

ix. Engineered By

200

(1)

x. Mixed By

200

(1)

xi. Remixed By Or Remix Produced By

200

(1)

xii. Programmed By

201

(1)

xiii. Edits By

201

(1)

g) What Are The Best Moments?

202

(1)

h) Why Are There So Few Female Record Producers?

202

(5)

i) Can You Successfully Genre Hop?

207

(2)

i. Advantages And Disadvantages

207

(2)

ii. Who Has Done It?

209

(1)

j) How Do You Deal With

209

(2)

i. Post-Purchase Dissonance More Commonly Known As 'Buyer's Remorse'?

209

(1)

ii. Post-Partum Depression?

210

(1)

k) What Happens When The Fat Lady Sings?

211

(3)

i. How Do You Know When It's Over?

211

(1)

ii. Where Do Old Producers Go?

212

(1)

iii. Should You Start Making Plans And When?

213

(1)

l) Why Do People Want To Produce Records?

214

(1)

m) Why Do People Want To Make Records At All?

214

(1)

n) Do You Know When You Have Produced A Smash?

215

(1)

o) What Is Demo-Iris?

216

(3)

p) What Kind Of Person Becomes A Producer?

219

(2)

q) How Do Producers Feel About Remixers?

221

(2)

r) What's The Remixer's Point Of View?

223

(1)

s) What's The A&R Person's Point Of View?

224

(1)

t) What Is The 'Sophomore Slump'?

225

(3)

12. Working Outside The Mainstream?

228

(20)

a) Classical

228

(1)

b) Jazz

229

(2)

c) Country

231

(2)

d) Traditional, Folk, Roots And World Music

233

(8)

e) Children's Music

241

(5)

f) Regional Producers

246

(2)

13. Technology Rules: Will the Internet Kill the Video Star?

248

(29)

a) Has Technology Made Studio Life Easier?

248

(4)

b) The Revolution Will Be Digitised: Where Is It All Going?

252

(4)

c) What Does This Mean To The Professional Record Producer?

256

(12)

d) Why Will We Even Need Labels In The Future?

268

(2)

e) Charts

270

(4)

f) Will Record Producers Survive The Revolution?

274

(3)

14. The Final Cut

277

(2)

15. Featured interview with legendary producer Arif Mardin

279

(9)

Glossary

288

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