Jeremy Webb, a friend of ours older brother, is a 23-year-old music producer who was recently working for Pendleton Studios. Pendleton is a small art company in Columbus, Ohio that has five studios in other parts of Ohio. Jeremy has been trained to be a music producer and music engineer and has worked with several small bands that are trying to make a hit in the music world. He has played drums since he was six, which helped open his producing career. Jeremy likes to listen to Christian rock, modern and classical rock, and hip-hop. “These music types have allowed me to create independent records and given me ideas to make awful songs better.” Many of his favorite music groups include Incubus, Radiohead, and Muse. He gave me much information about recording saying, “It’s easy to record hip-hop cause of it just being a bunch of beats. For rock I’ll usually be in the studio on an average of 8 hours a day, having to record the guitar part then drums, and finally vocals. But if the artist or bands needs a big improvement on a piece I will cut the timings, or the instrument, change the lyrics, or if somehow their drummer can not keep up I will record the drums for them.”
being a producer when he hears a song he listens out for solid vocals, and drums because that is what builds the basis of a song. Then, he will change a song by checking the harmonies, the guitar parts and see if they’re too complicated for the song or not, and the chorus transitions. To make a song a big hit, a producer must include catchy lyrics and up-tempo beats in a song. I asked Jeremy how much work he puts into a piece of music, and he said he makes half of the groups music. He further explained to me about the purpose of a producer, “The band or artist hire producers so they can get an outside opinion on their music, and get the help they need from the producer to improve it. So bands and artists will pick a trusted producer to lead them in the right direction.”
I got off the whole producer track and begun to ask him about his future in music. Jeremy said that in about ten years his name would be out enough to where he will be producing for several types of bands at once. Jeremy started his career in Atlanta and recommends Atlanta for any anyone locally to start because off all the incoming traffic running through the city. I went back to where he told me about him playing drums, and how drums got him into the business. I also asked Jeremy about ever joining a band and he told me, “I would if the band had a high probability of hitting it big in the music world, but the chances of that are kind of slim; that’s why I am a producer I can still incorporate my music into songs, and I can work without such risks.
