Annie Rivera - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Annie Rivera
Recording Connection Student - Tulsa, Oklahoma

There's this song playing on the radio a lot now. "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy", so the first line goes. Now, a lot of us might think, why would you want to wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy? But you know what, I kinda do. He is, after all, one hell of a music producer.

Being a music producer means being behind the process of producing, recording, and distributing music to anyone beyond the music studio. When you think about it, you actually get to decide what people hear. With every change, every critique, every discussion, every pitch lowered or raised, that's you deciding, ìOkay, people should hear this.î

But it was also said that with great power comes great responsibility. Just because you're the guy fiddling with the knobs in the recording studio, doesn't mean that you get what you want all the time. Though you get to decide just what listeners get to hear and how, you have to make sure that they're going to like it too. It's something that they'll want to listen to over and over again. Something they'd be willing to save in their ipods and play while on the commute to work.

It's not just about huddling in the station and laying down some tracks, you've got to make sure you've got something, that recording connection that clicks with the listeners. Being a music producer doesn't mean anything if you are not able to produce music people would love.