Friday, August 30, 2013

Guide To First Time Beat Making

By Delroy Wilkins


There are many ways to enter the world of hip hop, you can buy beats online and show off your silver tongue. You can find talent and produce the beats yourself. If you take the path to being a beat maker, you need to produce instrumentals that people who are planning to buy beats online, would, at least pay attention to. Of course, the entire beat making process does not come through with a snap of a finger but there are simple things that can be done to bring out your creative side and start you off with an inspiration to create your beats.

Use the beat to grab attention. Beats form an important part in any hip hop song. Hip hop is all about beats, instrumentals and vocals. However, your beats should be able to stand out as a single recognizable element. The beat should be unique and recognizable for its qualities. Your beats should entice the listener to continue listening. Great beats will actually act as the source of inspiration for the rappers lyrics.

Start out simple. Whoever said that big things start from small beginnings was not wrong, especially where beat making is concerned. With the desire to create something big and powerful, you might be at a loss of where to start to reach such greatness. The first step is to begin with simple chords. Of course, this may be too daunting for your talents but the fundamentals of chord construction may be just the key to a great beat. After gaining mastery over all the chords, minor and major, you can experiment with chord progression, play around with the notes and see if you create something that might just be the next big thing.

Don't change song structure. Many people believe that hip hop songs are significantly different to other genres. While this might be right, hip hop tracks share the same song structure as other genres. They contain intros, choruses and verses just like other genres. It's therefore important that you keep this in mind when creating your beats even if you want to try out something unique. This song structure is universal and humans will tend to appreciate it.

Complement the story in the song. Beats are not created to be used on their own. They must accompany vocals. Hip hop is one of the music genres best known for story telling. Therefore, besides creating sound effects that accompany the rappers vocals, you can move a step further. For example, you can incorporate reverb sound effects within your beats and instrumentals when the rapper sings about being in a tunnel.

The beat production industry might be thought dead but the contrary is true. Even if you can simply buy and download beats off the internet, there's so much room for the beginner beat maker. If you are starting out as a beat maker, there's a lot to learn but its worth it if you want to create world class beats.




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