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Blogisode 2: Production Tips | From Top Rank of Beat Council

On our last blogisode, I spoke on the homey Joker's (myspace.com/guesswhothisguyis) production questions. The young producer asked for tips so here are your tips served just how I like 'em (medium with a side of Worchester and A1, the sauce not the producer). Check it out...

Learn the difference between a beat maker and a producer. Quick question...without checking album credits, who produced Laffy Taffy? Who produced In Da Club? [Hint: Beatmakers make beats. They don't have long lasting work. They come and they go. They usually post beats on a website and hope people download. Producers make lasting work (hit records!). They start from scratch with nothing and end up with a full song (That's what I do!)]

READ, READ, READ! If you're serious, then you have to study. Reading is not only fundamental but necessary if you're gonna be a producer. I recommend the following books:

• Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry by Ronin Ro (Hardcover - Oct 30, 2001)


• Confessions of a Record Producer, 2 Ed: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business by Moses Avalon (Paperback - Feb 2002)
• What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business: The Myths, Secrets, Lies (& a Few Truths) by Peter M. Thall (Hardcover - Jun 2002)
• This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide to the Music Industry, Ninth Edition (Book only) by M. William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, and John M. Gross (Hardcover - May 2003)
• Songwriting: The Words, the Music and the Money by Dick Weissman (Paperback - Aug 1, 2001)

Now that I listed a bunch of books that I know you're not gonna read, at least do yourself a favor and pick up an issue of XXL presents Scratch Magazine. Since I also know you like to stay online, check out the following sites:

www.scratchmagazine.com
www.thesource.com
www.xxlmag.com

Get good drums! No matter what you're working on (Sonic Foundry, Fruity Loops, Keyboards, etc.) a producer is known by their drums. Where can you get said drums? Go Google "drum samples". You can also sample drums from records or cd's (If you're serious, hit me with a message and I'll write a how to, if not I won't waste your time)

If you're gonna sample, make sure you remember who and what you sampled. Once a song has been sampled, dumped (put through pro tools or logic), had vocals added and gone through the mixing process, then you must clear it before you try to put out a major album. You can use the following service to clear the sample: www.dmgclearances.com

Layer your beats. Layering is a technique where you mix together various sounds just to get one particular sound. Do I know how to layer? Yes. But I'm not going to go into it unless you are really interested in knowing (again hit me off with a message and I'll post on it).

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