So you dare call yourself a music producer, huh?

Do you lay claim to the title of MUSIC PRODUCER?

Then let me ask you this....ARE YOU PRODUCING MUSIC? not this second, as clearly you are reading this, but rather, do you have a track you are presently working on that is moving along as you envisioned it? Has this track not taken more than a day or two and do you already know what track you will be starting and finishing next?

Have you been spending no less than 5 hours a day completing these tracks? Sacrificing partying, sex, drugs video games TV interweb porn ect ect. in order to make time to do it?

Are you taking one of those hours (when not facing a deadline) and practicing playing an instrument? Are you practicing singing by doing standard vocal warm ups everyday, maybe when your in the shower?

Are you trying to pick up one piece of music theory everyday and learning it to the best of your ability?

Are you also looking out for new production techniques and trying to learn them through online tutorials or asking people you know to show you how to do,it?

Are you setting up writing sessions with every good musician you come across?

Is your folder of COMPLETED mixes growing every week?

If you consider your training period to be over are you insisting to be paid on any track you work on? Unless you are a co/ writer?

Did you stop reading this 5 minutes ago because you have a project to finish and don't have time for this BS?

Well congratulations! Regardless of where you currently sit on the pay scale, if you answered yes to these questions YOU are a bona fide no BS Music producer,

If you answered no to most....I suggest you start by putting down the bong, slap yourself in the face three times, and repeat these magic words given to us by Guns N' Roses so many years ago:

" YOU GET NOTHING FOR NOTHING IF THAT'S WHAT YOU DO" -g N r 1987