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Its that time. You have finally decide to make a move on up and make a demo. You should, initially, focus on the product. In the case of todays music industry, this means concentrating on your beat.

The beat is the very underpinning of every rap tune or hip hop song. There is no getting around it. You have to have unique and professional beats to make you and your music stand out. You need to find a site providing you with professional beats. Consider what you want, then download a series of samples. If you are not sure what you want, download a variety of instrumental beats.

The first question you need to ask yourself concerns your style of vocals. How will the beat sound coupled with your vocals and lyrics? You should base this, partly, on how you hear it. Listen closely and determine whether the music sounds right to your trained ear. You are a professional. You know a good beat when you hear one.

Selecting the right beat also depends upon knowing how your audience will react. By now, you should know what turns an audience. You need to consider your audience and your music before you put it out there.

The demo must reflect your own unique approach and reveal to its listeners why an audience will follow you. It should sound like it is real. It must show producers, managers, talent scouts and any music business personnel at least two things: What you and your music can do and who you and your audience are. If you want to accomplish this, you have to start with the right, hot beats.  Read more...

If I you were anything like me who love rap music because of the unique rhythm, and aspire to make rap beats on your own, then here are something for you.

You will need a rap beat maker to make your beats. Now, there are a lot of these beat makers online but the best one like SonicPro also comes with video tutorials and a wide variety of music instruments to add unique twist to your beats.

Then you will need to familiarize yourself with the technical stuff of rappers like the meter and tempo. Learning to use the correct match of these meter and tempo in your rap instrumentals will make a big difference. Now note that not all rap beats come equals and each has their unique style just like the West and East Coast style, the gangsta, Dirty South etc. and all of them have different meter and tempo. So, make some twist to see what meter and tempo best suited your rap beats style.

Try to mix more instrumental style to your beats – snare drum, bass drum, bass, guitar, cymbal, combos and synthesize them into a new rap music beats. Don’t worry, this is not difficult and a good rap beat maker should have all of these sounds built in.

Okay, last thing to do is the arrangement. You are going to arrange the proper flow of your rap beats like for example the verse-chorus-verse arrangement. You can do this by adding and deleting melodies.  Read more...

When learning how to make your own rap beats, you are going to need the proper tools. There are quite a few options available, such as which rap beat making program to use, whether it should be online or one you download to your computer, or even what sampling equipment to purchase when you need to. These things can be quite expensive, so here are a few pointers:

1. When it comes to making rap beats, price does not always determine quality! Many people think that they must have the most expensive beat making software, or the most expensive Akai Sampling model. None of this is the case. I have ran into quite a few online beat makers that produce sounds that mirror the quality that a $499 program does for a fraction of the price. Look into such opportunities, as they are the best place to get started.

2. Find something that is user friendly. Sometimes the interface of a program can be so overbearing that you give up within 15 minutes. If you don’t end up giving up, it will take you 2 months to even learn the program before you can start pumping anything out. Look for something that has an easy interface, without sacrificing quality.

3. Make sure whatever beat making programs you purchase have money back guarantees, and then purchase more than one different program. I do this and it pays off cause I get the beat making program that I want, and I am positive of that. Sometimes you can find an online beat maker that has lessons and tutorials, which helps you to cut your learning curve.  Read more...

One of the fastest growing markets in the entertainment industry is the buying and selling of rap/hip-hop/trance beats.  The ease of creation and the fast amount of options given the user to create an original sound is astounding.  In this article I will explain the basics of creating a good beat for your own music venture, or to sell to others and make money doing something you love.

To make a good beat, you must first acquire some form of beat making software, and many are available.  The following instructions will fit any software you choose to use, as these are more musical guidelines than software-specific instructions.

This will not be easy money, and will take months of practice to be proficient enough to sell your product to an artist or to use for yourself.  But any aspiring rap producer should be more than will to put the work in to create something original that could one day be used by the next up-and-coming rap artist.

Step 1:

Advances in technology have now given anyone the tools required to make beats from their personal computer with no additional equipment (synthesizers, midi controllers, drums, etc.)

Step 2:

(NOTE: If you are going to sample a song from another artist, make sure you have their permission, as this could lead to harsh fines and unwanted legal trouble!)

Step 3:

In the recent years, upcoming music creators would have to had known people in the hip-hop underground, make a few mix tracks, stave off almost hundred dollars, and take a adventure to the local rap studio to want any of their hiphop beats recorded. This made for an enormous challenge for those attempting to get in with making their own rap beats, and kept a lot of newcomers from acheiving much. Even sooner than this, beginners would be forced to buy pricey desktop rap beat production programs that was near impossible to grasp and absorb. Now, there are online beat makers that make it easier than before to start making rap beats online.

What should you search for in an online hip hop track maker? The feature that separates online beat creators from their expensive friends is ease of use. Desktop rap maker software is technically difficult and has a lot of extraneous controls and features that most new producers will not use. Online hip-hop beat makers do with out this “fluff” and give you only the stuff that you will need (the best ones actually). Be on the lookout for easy exporting to the infamous mp3 format (the sound format that you use burn onto a blank CD to show your friends your tracks), a simple user interface, and a large marge preset sample collection.  Read more...