Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The Art Of Selecting Instrumental Beats

By Delroy Wilkins


A major challenge for most rappers trying to create instrumentals and beats for sale involves choosing the right one for accompanying lyrics. Some artists are gifted with being able to instinctively know that a specific beat will match their lyrics easily. If you don't fall under this category, you might be wondering why. Although this gift might come naturally for some hip hop artists, you should accept that not everyone has this talent. In fact, some of these rappers have had to train over years to get an ear for the right beats and instrumentals.

A common method used by some rappers to select beats and instrumentals involves listening to beat samples before choosing one and then writing lyrics to match the beats. Its usually quite easy writing lyrics to a hip hop song after listening to the beats first. The beats act as a guide to the flow of the song. With this method, inspiration for you lyrics will be largely based on listening to the beats and instrumentals.

Most rappers would prefer using the second method. This involves writing lyrics for a song, but without an accompanying beat. This means that they will have a song ready, and all they have to do is look for a beat and instrumentals to accompany it. Most hip hop artists prefer this method because for them, they find it much easier to freely write a song then look for its beats as opposed to being fixed by a particular beat and looking for its lyrics.

Selecting the right beats and instrumentals for your songs plays a huge part in getting a following as well as creating great hits. You can select from hundreds of sample beats and instrumentals provided by major websites. A majority of these sites provide free samples and some even allow users to edit the beats. The editing feature will enable you to create unique content through mixing up a couple of beats.

After you've collected a considerable amount of samples, you can have fun editing them and making your own music. Do not be afraid of trying out other genres such as RnB, jazz, rock, pop etc. You would be surprised at the amazing sounds you can create. You can then set up a website and sell your new sounds from there. Make sure you make use of internet marketing skills to ensure that you are really getting your content out there.




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