Producing is the most typical way of popular-music making method. It means producer acts as a commander for music making. Music producer choose songs to record and arrange music and so on. With the producer vocal-director also plays an important role too. The role of the vocal-director means to arrange vocal part for the singer during the recording procedure. Therefore the vocal -director's mission is to make the music best for the singer by interpreting score right. Until now, the domain of the vocal trainer is limited to work in recording studio work. Vocal-director should cooperate with singer from the training period. Actually in the recording field vocal-director has confronted with limits to make the singer to find its new variation of voice. Making its own identity is the most important thing for popular singers. So the vocal-director should work together with the singer for making its own identity from the pre-training period . In this study, I researched the role of vocal director and the method of vocal-directing.

• 조태선(청운대학교 방송음악학과 교수) | Tae-Seon Cho