Do you like them? Do you see eye to eye with them? Can you learn from them? Can you communicate with them?

It is a crucial part of finding the right team of people to work with. You must know where they come from and communicate with them to understand their ideas and their foundations.

The below are elements of what I believe as well as what I don't. This is a little peak in to my style and my approach in the form of a rant in some ways.

I'm a producer. I have been around many different aspects of them music industry with 15 + years of experience. I have worked in R&B, rap, soul, Gospel, rock, metal, bebop, swing, big band, orchestral, cool jazz, ska, fusion, afro cuban, reggae, funk, folk, experimental, progressive, polka, klezmir, instrumental, movie soundtracks, ads, punk, thrash, emo, trance.

This is what I do for a living and I love what I do with a passion.

I am not sitting in my bedroom making dope beats or empty loops on a dx7 and a 4 track. (however, I did start there and I still have those tapes.)

I'm a producer... I have a good ear and listen to how the song can be embellished, complemented, or supplemented. I listen to what can be added but also what can be taken away or simplified. I. work with a band or artist to find the best solution and best sounds.

I am not someone that takes over a song to bring out elements of what I want to hear.

I'm a producer... I help to arrange, create, build and layer patterns, ideas, loops and samples. These loops are created for the song and to drive the tune not to be wild and make something that doesn’t fit. I help the artist find the spots to add drum loops and figuring the best parts for the song.

I do not create Def beats, phat loops or kickin’ drum samples.

I'm a producer... I will not make you famous, but at the same time I will not take a percentage. I do not believe in production points anymore and think the artist should be entitled to the full ownership of their album. My goal is for your music to have as much of a shot in all the different aspects of the industry.

My other goal for artists that work with me is to achieve self sufficiency, control of their music and control of their career and the many potential avenues of licensing, insertions and secondary revenues for your works to allow you the success to keep going.

I am not here to help you blow up, take over the world, go world wide, make mad bling, show how you're so much better than everyone else or reinvent your genre.

I'm a producer, I am not going to help you make your album for nothing and wait till it blows up world wide. You will be charged and there are payment plans and fundraising methods to pay for me and the project as a whole.

I am not going to record people for free and take percentages later. Some work that way and I am not knocking them at all, I just don’t do it that way.

I'm a producer... I want to see an album, EP demo done to the best of its ability. I believe in months of preproduction before the studio and having every duck lined up in a row before recording.

We are not going in the studio next week to make your hit record.

I'm a producer... I believe in using the right rooms, the right gear and the right team. If you're a solo artist, find the right session players, if your a band, be ready and rehearsed. As far as studios, you have to be in the right studio to get the right sound.

 It takes the right team and the right room to make the right recording.

I am a producer. I believe in setting specific budgets, timelines and plans that take an artist or group from preproduction through release and not cutting corners.

I also know if I am not the right guy for you, I will tell you and give you the names and numbers of people that might be a better fit.

That is my belief and that is part of my approach.