What classes in college do you need to take become a music producer?

Answer 1

You can find out by looking at the curriculum of anhy fine arts school. Even in Fine Arts not all the classes you take are for music; there are also some general education classes that are required as well. For musicians, you will specialize in some classes based on the instrument you are proficient with and the type of music you want to perform.

Then there are performance classes to take, Music Theory classes, and music history, to name a few.

Bruce Springsteen did not have a college degree. He bought a guitar at 13 and friends taught him to play and helped him land a lead singer position with The Castles.

There are many musicians and songwriters making big bucks who have no college degree in music. Now, if you want to be a teacher or a classical musician, go to college and get a degree. Otherwise, you can teach yourself to play any instrument out there and you don't need a piece of paper hanging on the wall to tell you that you can.

Answer 2

You don't need to take any classes in college to become a music producer. All you need to do is just start doing it.

There may be some courses that could help. Chances are, the names of the courses are different at different schools. If all other avenues of inquiry fail, you could try calling up the music department, and saying something like, "I want to learn about music production, what do you have to offer me?"

But I still say, Just do it.

Step 1) Learn to play some music yourself.

Step 2) Start hanging out with other people who play music.

Step 3) Get together with them on a regular basis, and start jamming.

Step 4) Somebody says, "Hey, that sounded cool, let's record it."

Step 5a) Somebody brings a recorder to the session and records it."

Step 5b) (this is about where I am) Start tweaking the recordings on the computer to try to make them sound better.

Step 6) Equipment upgrades. Somebody buys some decent mikes, somebody else (Might I suggest, YOU) starts fooling around with Garage Band or buys a cheap multi-tracking digital recorder.

Step 7) Look for opportunities to meet and hang with professionals in the business.

Step 8) (One of the guys I jam with is at this stage) Get invited to come in to the studio and lay down some tracks.

Step 9) ??? I don't know. I've only been making music and hanging out with musicians for about three years now, but I think that this path could lead you as far as you want it to take you.

Don't skip step 1. If you want to work with musicians, being able to pick up a guitar and play some rhythm and some chords will always be worth more than some piece of sheepskin hanging on your wall.

P.S.: I forgot Step X) Open mikes. Go to open mikes and perform. This is one place where you'll meet some other musicians to hang with.

Answer 3

college is not required to be a songwriter