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# and cost of producers, artists advances, studio time, mastering, engineering, hired musicians, travel and lodging |
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once you have money or when you are looking for it |
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Pre-production, Recording, Mastering, Mixing |
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What are the Producers Administrative duties? |
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Sample Clearance, File Licenses, Releases from hired musicians, Keep track of all records and receipts |
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Factors involved in aquiring financial support |
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Quality of product, your belief, enthusiasm, and organization of the product |
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sources of financial backing |
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friends or family, regular investors, club owners, budget and save your own money |
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Demo, Live Showcase, Business Plan |
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What do Record companies want |
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an original image, a great song, singer, or vocals, talent that can be developed, reliability, and SALES |
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How to establish a Network |
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Establish a rapport within the industry, workshops, conferences, have business cards made |
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What do you need before pre-production |
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a band you like, the band is good, you can connect with the band, the band has money |
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How to set up the meeting |
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Schedule it, make sure the entire band can attend, make sure you’ve met them all before the meeting |
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Pre-Production meeting content |
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Talk about different ways to produce the record and what you think is best |
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Keep a notebook for each project, get songs on tape, get all of the lyrics on paper, make song maps of structure, go through each song and critique 11 aspects, schedule the order of the recording of songs & music |
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What are the passions and references? |
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Intensity, arguments, perfectionists, and don’t get touchy |
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How important is what you need to say, sometimes it isn’t worth saying, positive feedback and redirection |
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Don’t make it a workshop, define one or two points, collect as many ideas as possible |
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