what does a producer do?

[karlman]

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[Blunt604]

no you are a beatmaker....beat makers make beats....producers make records and they decide who they think would be ill on there beat then they get them to rap on it createing a record....any1 can make beats!!!! but in order to step your game up to be called a producer you got to turn it up a notch

 

[bigdmakintrax]

I agree with Blunt, a producer is responsible for 1, having a vision for a track, 2 ,the ability to come up with a track on the fly based on an artist, work in conjunction with an artist or another producer on a concept, if you just have instrumentals to me you are not really a producer, you are more like an aspiring producer or up and comer in the sense of how the industry and profession views it, having a discography of finished songs is a producers resume but not how many instrumentals you have in your catalog...taking that to the next level like Blunt says puts the icing on the cake, as I always say an instrumental = 50% of a song, its not finished until you find the artist to make it a song also I want to clear something up too which a lot of cats start defining as of late coming into the game....it has nothing to do with musical ability LOL even though that comes into play being a hip hop producer is not rocket science unless that's how you want to make it, I was a musician way before I started producing hip hop its two different things, it definitely enhances your ideas and abilities but its not a requirement or make your skill any better at this game than the next man, its been proven time and time again....so my advice is get your beats how you want them, get good feedback going, start scouting out artists and work on songs even if they suck, go for it and improve, use the feedback and grow, the more artists you work with in sessions the better you become at how you want to structure your beats and build them, find out how rappers, lyracists and other artists react to your music they are the ones in the end that will demand your work as a producer and ultimately turn your instrumentals into songs.

 

[Sha MUSiiC]

I agree with the previous comments.


I think ALOT of people confuse the two.

 

[MarkN]

yea more people need to realise the difference between the two ! a favourite quote of mine is when people say dr dre isn't a producer ! classic ! lol