May 6, 2010
Make Your Own Beats
Whether you’re doing hip hop or soul, the surest way to establishing your name in the music industry continues to be the same: you should make your beats along with maintaining your own brand of music.
Understandably, the thought of making your own beats can be rather daunting. Nonetheless, it’s important that you do your best and see this as a challenge rather than allowing it to discourage you from following your aspirations.
Make Your Beats Count…Start by Mastering Your Genre
Of course, don’t take this advice to the extreme and challenge yourself into developing a totally new genre. While that is surely possible, you might need to broaden your repertoire a bit more before making that your goal. Meanwhile, there’s nothing wrong with devoting your time to polishing your skills and broadening your understanding of your chosen genre. Explore the works of your peers and see if they can inspire you into making your own beats better than ever.
By devoting your time to be proficient in your genre, you have already placed yourself a step ahead of equally debuting musicians and enhancing your potential as a music artist.
One admirable thing about today’s music industry is equipment accessibility for aspiring musicians just like you. Nowadays, you don’t need to spend a huge amount of cash just to afford the technology for making your own beats.
Producing the ideal beat for your music requires three important components: midi drums, audio loops, and bass line. These components appy to any kind of music so it’s important for you to understand how they function and what they can add to your music.
A song’s bass line is its underlying frame. It’s composed of a set of beats or notes that will be played from the song’s start to finish and which the other elements need to work with in order to maintain a sense of harmony.
Spend as much time as you want refining your bass line. If your bass line does not work, then the rest of your song won’t work either.
The second factor you have to consider is the audio loop. This is a favorite amongst rap and hip hop makers. More often than not, they’re used for changing your music’s central theme or mood. To form one, you’ll just simply combine an array of notes from musical instruments or any other possible source of sound. With audio loops, you’re free to play and experiment in any way you wish until you hit upon the ideal set of beats.
Last but not the least, you need to create midi drum patterns which go well with the rest of the piece. You can make use of only one set or pattern of notes or merge assorted sets. Anything goes provided that it enhances rather than detracts from your work.
Sometimes, midi drum patterns aren’t a pattern at all. Rather, they consist of an assorted set of beats but played as repeating loops as well as acting as something similar to a secondary tier of melody or beat.
To summarize: in making your beats, always start with building a compelling bass line to stand as your music’s foundation then solidifying it with equally well-developed audio loops and one or several midi drum patterns.
If you’re all set to produce your own beats, then don’t let anything stand in your way…make awesome tunes for everyone to hear.
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