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Music Producer - Suitable For You?

"Music producers are the individuals who create compositions, from instrumentals to the latest Top 40 hits. Music production has become the backbone of success for most musicians that have excelled in the music industry. The production aspect of music is almost as lucrative as the internal publishing and distribution.

Few steps for a good start point

You' ll need a personal recording studio before trying below suggestions:

• Incorporate your own personal recording studio. A personal recording studio opens many doors for gaining revenue. You can opt to rent your studio out, engineer recordings for vocalists or only produce tracks. All of these avenues create revenue, which enables you to invest back into your studio.  

• Build your repertoire. Nothing helps music producers more than diversity. A wide range of music along with experience with several genres of music expands the horizon of any production platform. It opens doors for innovation along with the cultivation of new concepts and ideas. Many producers have gained a lot of eclectic success with a wide repertoire alone. 

• Market your product. This requires deciding on a target market. Your target market consists of the listeners you plan to cater to. Whether your target market is alternative, children, teens or urban, make sure you are catering to that market. Too many changes can confuse consumers. Stick with one target market and branch out after you have established a name for yourself.  

• Advertise yourself. Music producers are human advertisements. The clothes you wear all the way down to how you carry yourself are all essential to personal advertisement. For example, if you specialize in urban music, dress that way. Hang fliers, build a website, give sample discs away and even opt to give away tracks. Your focus is being heard. Your music is your credibility, therefore it speaks for you. Do whatever it takes to make people hear it.

• Sell your music. Today's marketing platform is equipped with several avenues for executing sales. This can either be done online or by marketing at local clubs, mixers or publicity gatherings. 

Don't forget to keep an eye on some basic rules:

• Networking is a strong key to success in becoming a music producer. Make sure you communicate with lots of people to gain rapport with musicians, producers and possibly artist and repertoire directors. Some of the greatest success in the music industry was derived solely from social networking.

• Use the Internet to you advantage if you can. The Internet can be a strong marketing platform if you use it effectively. (See Resources.)

• Always invest in yourself. When you make a profit, invest it into yourself, your studio and your business. Due to the ever-changing status of today's music industry, technology and other innovations directed toward creation and marketing, you must keep up with these changes. This ensures that your music quality stays inline with society and the target market.

• Always copyright your productions. This ensures that your music, concept or initial idea is not stolen, used or distributed without your consent. If actions transpire without your consent, it will be quite difficult and tedious to take action to rectify the problem."

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Delerium - Silence (Kostas B. Remix)

"Kostas B. is a 17 year old composer/producer. It all started already at the age of 6, in Greece. His favorite hobby was to record and mix down music from the radio to tapes, he did that almost every day. Since little kid he liked pop-disco music. Next year, 1998, he begun to take piano lessons. That didn't go so far and after a year he quit. After 3,5 years, at the age of 10, did Kostas B. and his family move to Sweden. There bought his parets a present to him, a nice computer and a Internet connection. Since then everything happened, he begun to listen to Trance music and Dance music, like Tiesto, Above and Beyond, Underdog Project, Bob Sinclair, Benny Benassi and many more. He got curious if there was any mixing programs on Internet so he searched on Google and found Traktor DJ Studio. When he got that, he directly started to mix.

Some months later he noticed that mixing was nothing for him. He felt more like composing his own music! He thought it would be impossible first but when he found Fruity Loops did everything change. He saw that he had a chance to go forward with it. So he begun to make his first Trance loops. After composing 3 years with Fruity Loops, he decided to try any other program. Under these years he composed music genres like HipHop, Trance and House until he decided to only compose House/Electro music in future. So he got Ableton Live, bought a studio microphone, a sound card and a keyboard that he had since he was little. First he had no clue how to use Ableton and it seemed very complicated, but after some time he learned how to record and put some samples. The time passed and he learned more and more. He liked it so he decided to use it in future. Now five years has passed since he made his first sounds and only one thing is for sure... many more will pass!" Article source: Kostas B. on MySpace.