Why Music Still Trains the Best Producers

Artists, deadlines and no money — the fastest creative education available.

Music production teaches you to work with talent whose instincts you cannot override, on schedules that don't move, with budgets that assume a favour or two.

It also teaches speed of taste. A campaign lives or dies in a week, and you learn to recognise the right idea before you can fully explain it.

Almost every producer I rate came through music, sport or news. All three punish hesitation.