The business operating manual for music producers.
Pricing your work properly. Understanding your rights. Protecting what you create. Getting paid what you're owed. Building systems that work for you instead of you working around chaos.
9 parts · 8 templates · Everything a producer needs to run a real business.
The Problem
You can tell someone your BPM, your plugin chain, your reference tracks. But ask what your actual profit was last year, or whether your publishing is registered correctly — and most producers go quiet.
It's not because they don't care. It's because nobody ever explained the business side of what they do. No contracts. No pricing logic. No royalty knowledge. Just figuring it out as they go — and losing money every time they get it wrong.
The Producer Playbook fixes that.
What's Inside
Nine parts covering every dimension of running a production business — from reading your numbers to protecting your rights, built for the working producer.
Understand what kind of business you're actually running, how to read your own numbers, and what you need to set up properly.
Calculate your floor, understand every pricing model, structure payment plans, and present your rates without apologising for them.
A complete system from first enquiry to final delivery — qualifying leads, discovery calls, proposals, project management, and follow-up.
What every production agreement, co-writer deal, and session agreement needs to cover. What to do when someone won't sign.
PRS, PPL, splits, registration, mechanical royalties, sync, neighbouring rights. The full picture — explained clearly.
Copyright basics, sample clearance, work-for-hire, Content ID, and what to do when someone uses your music without permission.
Positioning, communicating your value, referrals, outreach, and how to use platforms like BeatStars strategically.
The tools, client management systems, invoicing, file management, and time protection habits that keep the business running.
Setting grounded income goals, understanding busy vs profitable, scaling, catalogues that earn while you sleep, and the long game.
The Template Vault
Every template a producer needs — built professionally, ready to customise with your own branding. No starting from scratch.
Full contract covering rights, fees, revisions, credit, and termination.
Records splits, registration responsibilities, and release approval.
For writing camps and one-day sessions — covers all participants and EP share.
Clean one-page format. Complete one for every track. Every time.
Professional, itemised, with payment terms and follow-up guidance built in.
Structured proposal that converts — includes scope, pricing, and next steps.
Pre-call checklist, structured questions, listening tips, post-call actions.
Collects everything you need before a project begins. Works as online form too.
Who It's For
You're earning some money from music but you don't have systems, contracts, or pricing logic. You need the foundation.
You're doing well but you know there are gaps — royalties you're not tracking, contracts you're avoiding, rights you might have given away.
You work in other people's sessions and need to understand splits, credits, and how to protect what you contribute.
You produce your own music and need to understand both sides — as the producer and as the artist on the other side of the agreement.
Get the Playbook
Launch pricing — available for a limited time.
The complete Producer Playbook PDF — all 9 parts, introduction, conclusion, and an action step at the end of every section.
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The complete Playbook plus all 8 professional templates — ready to customise and use immediately.
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Launch pricing available for a limited time. Price will increase to standard rates. All templates are provided for guidance — seek independent legal advice for complex agreements.
What Producers Are Saying
I've been producing for six years and never had anyone break down publishing and royalties this clearly. Registered with PRS the week I read Part 5. Already earning money I didn't know I was owed.
The contract templates alone are worth triple the price. I used to just send a voice note agreeing to splits — now every session starts with a proper agreement. Artists respect me more for it.
I finally understand how to price my work without guessing. The pricing floor calculator in Part 2 changed how I think about every project. Raised my rates the same month and didn't lose a single client.
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