Hello Conrad,
My name is Kaylee and I am doing research for my 8th grade school assignment. We where asked what was our career choice and I chose music producer.
I wanted to know how you got started as a music producer and what advice can you give me? I have been taking piano lessons since I was seven and music is just a big part of life.
Thank you for my time,
Kaylee
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Hi Kaylee,
I got started as a music producer by doing a series of telephone on-hold music libraries for GTE and Contel. That was my first “pro” production assignment. This was back in 1989 – MIDI had just been released. The telephone company wanted classical music but didn’t want to pay royalties of MUZAK fees, so I sequenced Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Mozart on my computer. At the time there were no midi libraries available like they are today, so it was a little cutting edge for corporate use back then. It started with one full length CD and ended up being a four CD library that was sold by a third company. By the time the project was done I had used all the money from those projects to buy computer gear. Inadvertantly I had started building a recording studio.
For the first CD I just did the programming and a seperate engineer and studio did the mix-downs. By the fourth CD I was doing the mixing and engineering myself.
My advice is to get serious with your piano lessons – study theory and as many styles as you can. If there’s a style of music you don’t like, that just means you need to study it more. Keep your eyes open for the opportunities that are around you. If you don’t see opportunites, then study and practice until you do.
Hope that helps.
Conrad
Hello Conrad.
Thank you for your response it helped me very much. I just would like to ask you three more questions. I would like to know if there is any specific classes I would have to take to become a music producer, what do you do when you are a music producer, and what is the average income of a music producer?
Thank you for your time,
Kaylee
Hi Conrad,
my name is wednesday and i am a high school student that is doing a term paper on the goals, life and edu of a music producer and what it takes to become one, It seemed very interesting to contact one and see if you could help me with any interesting information to help me with my term paper. I already found some of the education that it takes, but i needed to know what courses to take, Thank you.
hi my name is Erin and im a high school student and im in a music class and my assignment is to find out about how to becoma a music producer and how you get started as a music producer and what do you have to do as a music producer?
thank you for your time and effort,
Erin
Hello my name is Chelsea and I am doing a career project for my 9th grade typing class. I was wondering what kind of schooling you did in order to become a music producer. If you went to a special music and arts school. If you could please e-mail me back or anything it would help me very much.
thanks
Chelsea
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Ay this is deepak.
Whats the lowest amount of money a music producer could make?
I would like to become one but i know it is a very risky job, and after your done getting you masters in music producing where do you go from there??
Hello everyone asking about being a music producer i don’t know if your still reading but i started producing at 11. Before i had started using programs like Reasons and Fl studio. I learned to play the piano. To be a great producer you have to have a passion for music. I your young like me in high school try getting internships at studio’s. for those that are older i would suggest working for studios and anyone that need jingles etc..Also learn as much as you can about the legal and business
aspect of producing. Contracting, copyright, service mark,trademark etc.. For those that have yet to start producing Try investing in Reasons 4.0, A keyboard with midi or a keyboard controller. To really go any where make music because you love and nothing else above. thank you