The 10 Key Steps To Make Your Own Hip Hop Beats
Trying to make your own hip hop beats can be a difficult task especially if you are trying to make a unique beats. There are already lots of beats available in the industry and adding your own beat can be very challenging. Here are some steps to follow when making a hip hop beat, that will make your production easier and your beats hotter:
1. Decide on the style that you would want to use in your beat.
2. Choose an artist that you favor as your inspiration. Thinking how he goes about making his rap beats will help you construct your own.
3. Feel how those artists make their beats. Listen inasmuch as you can to the creations that are just too addictive to you.
4. Observe when the instruments come and drop out of the song. The most basic beat format is 2 or 4 bar intro, 16 bar verse, 8 bar chorus, 16 bar verse, 8bar chorus, 16 bar verse, 8 bars chorus. However, an 8 bar loop can be used consistently in a song for a simpler beat.
5. Lay down your beat using the most important instrument, the drum. Remember that if the drum beat is strong then, you would have a strong music. Kick, Snare, or Hi hat, are good starters. Make a pattern for four bars with your starter. After which, layer it with some cow-bell or symbols.
6. Add the melody; it would greatly benefit the beat-maker if he/she knows how to play the keyboard. Put in some lead guitar or another instrument to mellow with the melody. Make sure it jives with your drum beat. A 4-bar or 8-bar melody would do.
7. Make your sound fatter by layering all the instruments in perfect fit.
8. Add a pan to give each track a little space of its own.
9. Mix your beat individually to check if it blends well. If each sounds great by itself, you have done a good mix. It shows that the time you have put in it is sufficient and not a waste.
10. It’s now time to share it via internet, to your friends or save it on a CD. It is recommended that when it is time to export your beat to a CD you should use a.wav file 44.1 16bit. When uploading tracks for internet use 320kbps (highest mp3 quality) or 128kbps. Keep in mind that many websites don’t accept 320kbps because the file sizes are too big. So most times you have to go with 128kbps.
Since your creation is a result of your hard work, it should not be left with a message as ordinary as the others may sound. Creativity and depth of the music should be foremost in your mind when making a hip hop beat. The message that is imbibed in your creation will eventually reach out to your audience and they will understand it. Such understanding usually comes with appreciation for your work and fans will follow because of it, thus, resulting to the followers that could make you famous later on.
It should be considered also that making beats come in hundreds even thousands of ways but, the above guidelines should at the least give you great ideas on how to make you own hip hop beats that others will wish were their own.