The producer skills necessary to get a hit record are many, and not easy to fully learn.  Thinking like a recording artist, a songwriter, a musician or even a recording engineer is not thinking like a producer.  You could say the producer thinks more like a recording artist, a songwriter, a musician and a recording engineer simultaneously - plus does it as an outside observer.   For more information about what being a producer is like, see our article "Becoming A Production Specialist"

developing artist productions (dap) wants to help developing artists and producers get better productions, so that they are limited only by talent, and not the lack of knowing and using production and test-marketing techniques. We have seen many artists make it and we are sure that we can help you also. dap is entering its beta-testing phase - the final phase before accepting members in volume. We want twelve "founding members" to mentor. Check out the We Want 12 Winners! contest to find these founding members.

We want to coach our founding members into critiquing the production elements and into bettering those elements - things like song quality, performance quality and mixing quality.  We want to let our members know how close they are to having a releasable product and what they can do to improve the production before release.  We want to help the members plan and execute a test marketing of the product and advance as many steps as possible on the road to a hit record.

Founding members will be given access to dozens of articles on production technique  usually available to paid users only.  We will be inviting the founding members to partake in an organized study of how to produce and market musical product.

You can't purchase a developing artist productions founding membership - you can only win one.  Go here for the We Want Twelve Winners! contest application and complete contest rules.