Making Beats is a very fun and profitable hobby or profession depending on how serious you are about the craft. It seems to be a big trend these days everyone is wanting to learn how to make beats so they can become the next big producer or perhaps put some extra cash into their pockets. There are many beat production applications out there and as well as tons of videos but none of them seem to really walk you through step by step on how beats are created. So what I'm going to do is share 5 tips with you on how to make great beats.
Tip 1 Pick the right music production tools
As I've stated before there are tons of music production tools out there both hardware and software. I would suggest you get started by downloading demos and testing them out. I'd also suggest that you take a trip down to your local guitar center and ask some questions. This will also allow you to touch and play with the hardware setups in person rather than just reading about them.
Tip 2 Study The Right Music Producer
There a lot of producers out there in the game it would be wise to pick 1 or 2 and do nothing but study their work. I use to sit down with a pen and pencil and write down the instruments I heard in songs all the time. Then I'd pay close attention to which sounds were used together. Some producers were heavy on using string and piano combinations and with other songs of theirs. They would use Guitars and thin sounding flutes. I also pay close attention to how long their patterns would run. Most of the time the main part of the song was only 2-4 bars that ran throughout with only slight variations.
Tip 3 Chose good hip hop samples
This goes back to tip 2 (Study the producer). What gives that producer you like his edge is the sounds that he uses. So when creating music its best to pick the best sounds possible. What I've noticed over in my years of music production is you can make a very generic pattern sound like gold if you have good sounds... Just think about it pick a song you like and picture it with different drums or different sounding instruments. In fact if you are messing around with a piece of software or hardware. Make a pattern that you like then change the sounds. You'll notice it doesn't sound as good because the sounds aren't as good. Or what you can do and this is probably the best test. When you are in guitar center play the beat pattern from a hot song on the radio you'll notice it doesn't sound that good that will be because you don't have the original producers sounds
Tip 4 Remake Other Producers Songs
This is vital in your hip hop production development for 2 reasons. 1. It will get your familiar with the limitations or true power of your production tool. 2. It will train your ear to pick out good sounds and it will help you with developing good arrangement skills. Not to mention it would be great if someone was willing to pay you $400.00 to make a beat that sounded similar to a hit that was already on the radio. That would be easy money in the bank for you.
Tip 5 Practice Practice
It's an old saying but its true practice makes perfect. In this production game perfect isn't need but the more your practice the faster you will become at making beats. A lot of companies these days don't mind if they have subpar material as they are not music lovers they only care about meeting deadlines. If you don't believe me just listen to some of the music that is on MTV commercials and product commercials they are all really simple and sometimes cheesy but guess what? I can bet you anything the creator of the beat pockets a good 3-4 figures in every few months from it.
Tip 1 Pick the right music production tools
As I've stated before there are tons of music production tools out there both hardware and software. I would suggest you get started by downloading demos and testing them out. I'd also suggest that you take a trip down to your local guitar center and ask some questions. This will also allow you to touch and play with the hardware setups in person rather than just reading about them.
Tip 2 Study The Right Music Producer
There a lot of producers out there in the game it would be wise to pick 1 or 2 and do nothing but study their work. I use to sit down with a pen and pencil and write down the instruments I heard in songs all the time. Then I'd pay close attention to which sounds were used together. Some producers were heavy on using string and piano combinations and with other songs of theirs. They would use Guitars and thin sounding flutes. I also pay close attention to how long their patterns would run. Most of the time the main part of the song was only 2-4 bars that ran throughout with only slight variations.
Tip 3 Chose good hip hop samples
This goes back to tip 2 (Study the producer). What gives that producer you like his edge is the sounds that he uses. So when creating music its best to pick the best sounds possible. What I've noticed over in my years of music production is you can make a very generic pattern sound like gold if you have good sounds... Just think about it pick a song you like and picture it with different drums or different sounding instruments. In fact if you are messing around with a piece of software or hardware. Make a pattern that you like then change the sounds. You'll notice it doesn't sound as good because the sounds aren't as good. Or what you can do and this is probably the best test. When you are in guitar center play the beat pattern from a hot song on the radio you'll notice it doesn't sound that good that will be because you don't have the original producers sounds
Tip 4 Remake Other Producers Songs
This is vital in your hip hop production development for 2 reasons. 1. It will get your familiar with the limitations or true power of your production tool. 2. It will train your ear to pick out good sounds and it will help you with developing good arrangement skills. Not to mention it would be great if someone was willing to pay you $400.00 to make a beat that sounded similar to a hit that was already on the radio. That would be easy money in the bank for you.
Tip 5 Practice Practice
It's an old saying but its true practice makes perfect. In this production game perfect isn't need but the more your practice the faster you will become at making beats. A lot of companies these days don't mind if they have subpar material as they are not music lovers they only care about meeting deadlines. If you don't believe me just listen to some of the music that is on MTV commercials and product commercials they are all really simple and sometimes cheesy but guess what? I can bet you anything the creator of the beat pockets a good 3-4 figures in every few months from it.
If you want more hiphop production tips check out my hiphop production study course as well as my course on Piano Chord Progressions It doesn't get any easier than this people
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