The Music Producer's Handbook: Music Pro Guides Paperback – June 1, 2010

This is the only book on production of music that also includes how to arrange a song with verses choruses and bridges and starts and stop in a song builds of instruments in a song and something called turnarounds in a song and the proper when to do these thing in a song and a foundation in a song is when the bass and drums play together a tight rhythm together and that there should be only four to 5 different instruments to play together in a song which is called 4 or 5 elements playing at once in a song so the music doesn’t sound mushy together and dynamics is a song means to have loud parts and soft part in a song to sound more interesting to the listener of the song being recorded thes thing could take years for a musician to figure out but it’s all in this book which makes the book valuable!!!

Great book. I wanted some overstanding about what is the producers role. I come from Eu country called Slovenia and we have a lot of music producers but it seems to me that they are not doing their job correctly. So i orded this book and and started reading and got all answers to my questions. Now i realy understand the role of a music producer and more. The workflow, tips and tricks. Interwies with the best in the biz. And on more thing Bobby has a real good way of explaining things it is a easy reading full of interesting issues. Some people are real lucky to have a mentor I am not one of them, with this book and the video Bobby really paved the way for me!Big up to Bobby Ownsinski

This book is a fantastic read for those in the need for information on producing. It was so good I gave it to my son who is now in college studying to be a music producer. I started reading from this author with the Recording Engineer's Handbook and followed it up with this book. I also bought the Mixing Engineer's Handbook. Great books for home studios to use and for the pro's. The best money I ever spent on books for this topic. He uses simple terms and language to understand.

This book and s a very well written guide into the world of music production. I was astonished when about a year ago a young artist referred to a producer as someone who comes up with beats for a Hip-Hop song. I knew better than that. Bobby's down to earth and easy to read approach to writing made the subject matter both understandable and enjoyable. For anyone who truly wants to know what a producer does I highly recommend this book.

Highly recommended for those seriously interested in a music career. Covers the fundamentals of music production and recording. Covers good exert advice and summaries on editing, mixing and mastering. The book also covers the history and business aspects of production and the role of a good producer. I give it four stars for its expertise on the subject and its comprehensiveness in the content matter.The only critique would be to add a section on technical aspects of audio recording, using DAW's and a chapter on the basics of music theory and song form. Perhaps something reasonably covered and reserved for other volumes. Regardless this is a primary text for a music production course for sure.

I've been studing music production for almost 4 years, and I have never found a source like Owsinski's book. In this book you'll find every thing you've been looking for, from the basic concepts to very interesting and important lessons, about how to write a song, how to make a musical arrangement, etc. I'm so very glad to have found this treasure, I recomend it, no problem at all, you will enjoy it, I'm sure about that.

As always Bob Owsinski delivers a great book filled with details.As a hobbyist sound engineer and producer this book explained every single detail that has to be considered in the process of producing an album, budgets, sample rates, methods etc. Also The explanations are very simple and very work oriented.If someone is interested in the process of producing and recording this is a very nice asset.

Excellent!! Today's producer needs to know this "stuff". Everybody wants to be aQuincy Jones( just using him for an example ) but they don't want to study like he and the other great ones did and do.