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Music Production Methods

A Concise Guide for Understanding Your Role, Process, and Order

Josh Bess

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 152 • Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-5381-5625-4 • Hardback • September 2021 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-5381-5626-1 • Paperback • September 2021 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-5381-5627-8 • eBook • September 2021 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
Series: Music Pro Guides
Subjects: Music / Recording & Reproduction, Music / Instruction & Study / Songwriting, Music / Instruction & Study / Composition

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.

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

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.


— Chris Lawyer, DJ & producer


Music Production Methods

A Concise Guide for Understanding Your Role, Process, and Order

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • 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.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 152 • Trim: 6½ x 9
    978-1-5381-5625-4 • Hardback • September 2021 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
    978-1-5381-5626-1 • Paperback • September 2021 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
    978-1-5381-5627-8 • eBook • September 2021 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
    Series: Music Pro Guides
    Subjects: Music / Recording & Reproduction, Music / Instruction & Study / Songwriting, Music / Instruction & Study / Composition
Author
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
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

Reviews
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.


    — Chris Lawyer, DJ & producer


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