Hip Hop Artist - Learn How To Make Hip Hop Beats

By Farah Fan


To become a hip hop artist you need to discover how to make hip hop beats. Without this skill you will have a tough time convincing your manager, record label and possible fans that you are a hip hop artist. Hip hop started in the Bronx in NYC in the 70's. With the aid of African American and Latino community, hip hop has developed from being street music to boom-box time to a multi-million dollar music business. Hip hop is actually dominating the pop charts with new hip hop talents. This piece of writing will give you beneficial information about hip hop and show you how to produce your very own hip hop beats.

Before you learn how to produce hip hop beats, you will have to fully understand the meaning of hip hop music. So, what exactly is hip hop? Hip hop music is actually a genre that is combined with rhythmic beats and rapping vocals. This is today the number one genre of music which has evolved to hip hop culture, which includes djing, mcing, fashion and other activities. This has become a lot more famous as mixing and sampling techniques have matured recently.The famous areas of hip hop are New York City and California and of course the division of West Coast and East Coast hip hop rivalry.

A hip hop beat is essentially all the elements of a hip hop song without the vocals. Producing beats is very easy. You just need to understand the basic components in producing a beat. A beat has three elements - the melody, the drums and the bass. It is important to understand the basic song progression, that is, verse, chorus and sequencer. A sequencer is actually a program or a piece of hardware known as MPC which helps you input beat, audio samples and melodies together. You'll learn to build up your track from scratch into a full-fledged professional beat.

Begin by experimenting on your drum kit and demo the various sounds for some type of ideas. Make sure that the song is between 3-4 minutes, an average length of a song. Make sure every drum sound is on a different track for optimum flexibility. It is time to make drum bars. Create one or two bar sequences then cut and paste them as you desire. Select a song that you like in your CD player, Ipod or MP3 and attempt to copy the song. Put your music markers at the beginning and end of the bars that you have created, and then set the sequence to loop. Then, create multiple 1 or 2 bar bass sequences. Cut and paste them as you prefer.

You're very close to making your very own hip hop beat like your favorite hip hop artist. Now, bring up a sound on your synth and play it below your drums and bass to find out if it fits well. Change the sound as the sequence loops till you get the ideal sound. Then record and edit your own samples live by using a digital or other handy recorder.




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