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Grammy-Winning Producer David Foster Explains What A Music Producer Does · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Well, we all know what a music
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  Speaker 1: producer is, but a lot of people still don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what a music producer does. It's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: job where people on the outside wonder what their role
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  Speaker 1: is in the studio. And if anybody should know, it's
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  Speaker 1: super producer David Foster. He's behind dozens of massive hits
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  Speaker 1: and dozens of Grammy nominations are under his belt. So
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  Speaker 1: we asked David to break down the job of music
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  Speaker 1: producer for us. It's kind of ANALOGI aust I think
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  Speaker 1: Ryan to the director of a movie, only on a
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  Speaker 1: smaller scale. So the kind of stops here. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: making records is not a democracy. You may want the
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  Speaker 1: song to the note to go up, I may want
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  Speaker 1: it to go down. It'll do one of those two things,
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  Speaker 1: but it will not go in the middle. If you
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet, check out the Netflix documentary about
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  Speaker 1: David's life and career, David Foster, Off the Record, It's
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  Speaker 1: streaming now. That's Direct from Hollywood.