Monday, August 6, 2012

Quick Guide to Making Rap Beats

By Dj Byrd


Do you want to create Rap, Hip-Hop and R&B beats? With the cost of production and beat downloading you might think about producing your own personal beats. Regardless if you are making beats to promote, for your own personel tracks or just for fun, I'd like to describe the various components that I use when making beats. I've been involved with audio production for 20 years however i am definitely no expert but I'd like to share my knowledge.

To begin with allow me to clarify there's really no wrong or right way to create a beat. Many people might begin with percussion like kicks, snares and hats. Other people will start creating their melodies and chords. Now there is no one method to make a beat. Occasionally I simply begin with percussion and after that put in a bassline and melody. In other cases I began creating the chords and melody 1st, then put the drums later on. These are the 4 primary elements that I use when creating hiphop and rap beats.

1) Drums/percussion - Percussion instruments includes all of your drum sounds like kick drum, snare drum and cymbals. These sounds can either be electronic like those included within drum machines and software. They can also be live drums that you would see in a rock band.

2) Chords- Chords would be the sounds most likely played with a keyboard. Usually these sounds would be played using A piano or similar sound like an organ. However the possibilities are endless. You can use mostly any other instrument like pads, keys and strings also for your chords.

3) Melody-Melody is yet another element used when building a beat. This component isn't required however it does make the track a lot more voluminous and assists out a lot whenever you come to the hook, chorus and various parts of the song. Once again this can usually be any sound inside your library but I recommend keeping away from the lower tones because this might conflict with the Bassline.

4)Bassline-The Bassline is the one other critical component in producing hip hop beats. Once just as before this part is not essential however it does create fullness to the track. A great deal of times if you use a hefty 808 kick you might not require a heavy Bassline. You may additionally use the Bassline to play along with the melodies and chords that you've got inside your songs.




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