Music Production Methods: A Concise Guide for Understanding Your Role, Process, and Order

by Josh Bess

Overview

While the role of a producer is constantly evolving in relation to music, time, and technological transitions and updates, there are proven similarities throughout all musical productions regarding processes and workflow management.

In this practical and highly accessible guide, Josh Bess breaks music production down into core concepts, approaches, and methods essential to any piece of recorded music, regardless of genre and style of music:

• The role of a music producer
• The process of recorded music
• The order of the music production process

A fundamental understanding of these three aspects are key to any production, and a firm grasp can help music producers solve problems from start to finish and ultimately create better music. Music ProductionMethods features exercises and templates available for download that will help producers and music production students reflect on their current practices, troubleshoot workflows, and solve creative problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538156261
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/26/2021
Series:	Music Pro Guides
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	1,092,900
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

JOSH BESS is a music producer, Ableton Certified Trainer, and an educator with a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from Harvard University. He is the author of Electronic Dance Music Grooves: House,Techno, Hip-Hop, Dubstep and More! and has created multiple TEC Award–nominated instructional video courses. An artist and producer with releases through Armada Music, he is a resident music producer at Fashion Week TOKYO. He is also a studio drummer with multiple television and commercial music placements on MTV, Disney, and Nickelodeon.

Table of Contents

About the Media Content

Introduction

SECTION I: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC PRODUCTION

Method 1.Understand Your Role

Method 2.Understand Your Process

Method 3.Understand Your Order

SECTION II: AN IN-DEPTH PERSPECTIVE ON MUSIC PRODUCTION

Method 4.Song Writing and Arranging

Method 5.Sound Design and Recording

Method 6.Mixing and Mastering

SECTION III: REFLECTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Method 7.Modern Problems and Solutions

Method 8. Your Mentor

Conclusion: Tying It All Together

Editorial Reviews

Music Production Methods fills a gap--knowledge that is easy to understand and apply. The active learning exercises are great tools to utilize the techniques immediately.

From the Publisher

Music Production Methods: A Concise Guide for Understanding Your Role, Process, and Order fills a gap—knowledge that is easy to understand and apply. The active learning exercises are great tools to utilize the techniques immediately.

Chris Lawyer