"Making Rap Beats" - How to Make Professional Rap Music Beats

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Here are 5 great steps for Making Rap Beats that you will need to start producing your own music.  These steps will talk about mixing styles, software used, blueprints, looping techniques, and some other techniques on how to make professional rap music beats.

"Making Rap Beats" - How to Make Professional Rap Music Beats

1.  There is always room for improvement and getting fresh material and rap beat sounds out to the industry. One underground rapper said, "The producers and beat makers with the freshest and newest sounds are the ones who get more recognition and more doorways opened for them and that's who gets to work with the best rappers."

2.  You will always need a way to have all the newest updates on sounds, mixing styles, equipment, software, trends and techniques when Making Rap Beats.

3.  You will definitely need to be aware of all the present and past techniques being used today by all of the successful rap music producers.  Just knowing the present techniques on how to make professional rap beats will be good to learn since you're just starting out though.

4.  Learn the importance of setting a blueprint for any beat, structuring a beat, looping techniques, and vocal recording for producing high quality hip hop music beats and sounds.

5.  Having a list of the best places to get sound samples and different beat samples online is crucial for creating some crazy wicked beats.  These sounds and beats are best when combined with the techniques like mixing and looping.

Okay now you know how to start making hip hop beats with quality.  All you need to know are the things like mixing styles, beat structuring, old and new techniques and the importance of beat blueprints.  You are well on your way to success.

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How To Buy Hip Hop Beats For Sale On The Internet - Things To Know Before You Buy

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It has become ever so popular for independent recording artists and producers to buy and sell beats online. With this trend comes a lot of traffic from inexperienced artists trying to buy beats online. An inexperienced buyer will easily over pay for a beat online. This article was written from personal experience in hopes of giving some insight, not as a hard set of rules to follow, but a guide. Listed below are things beat buyers should know and understand when buying beats online.

How To Buy Hip Hop Beats For Sale On The Internet - Things To Know Before You Buy

Understand The INTRINSIC Value Of Hip Hop Beats And Rap Beats

You can't touch, bend, break, fold, or smell rap beats. For that matter, you can't even see them, yet in the music industry, we see them being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oh ... but you can hear and fell vibrations from beats, can't you. This kind of makes music like the wind, so I guess it's fair to say the music industry is selling "air"... not really, but hopefully you get my point. It's not the price of the beat but the producer or person you are buying it from.

The actual value of a beat or music is based on an underlying perception of its true value, perception being the keyword. Don't rip yourself off by buying a beat online for 0 if the producer has no credibility or his or her image and stature in the music industry doesn't give value to your demo or album sales. Look at what Brittany Spears did on her latest album, take note of the album credits and all the popular "Producer Powers" employed, essentially playing a major part in her attempt to revive her career.

Some Internet Beat Pricing Standards And Averages

The average rate on the Internet for a "Non-Exclusive" beat license is - . With this type of license you are essentially leasing or renting the beat for a given amount of time or copies. The average for an "Exclusive" beat license is from around - 0. This type of license gives you full ownership of the beat, as if you created it yourself. More popularly noted as "work for hire". Note: Some exclusive licenses may restrict resale.

Try To Contact The Producer Before You Buy

To get the most for your money, and protect yourself from "beat-jackers" (people who steal other peoples beats and resell them) try to contact the producer first to see if he or she is responsive, email or PM seems to be the best method. Don't just buy beats from "Joe Blow" without making some kind of contact first. Trust me, real beat makers who are truly vested in their craft make themselves available and they'll be happy to hear from you (it builds their ego) and will more than likely work a deal out with you if you buy more than one beat from them. If a seller takes more than two days to respond, keep it moving. There are literally thousands of other producers who will stop at the drop of a hat to make a sale in hopes of repeat business and a little recognition. Try starting off with producers that you see are already selling beats to others on the net or have their beats rated high or "Hot". Obviously they are doing something right and they are more than likely satisfying other beat buyers needs.

Get It In Writing

When you buy beats online, make sure there is some type of printable licensing agreement associated with the beat you buy. A licensing agreement/contract will explain the rights you have with the beats and the terms under which you may use the beat.

Cheap Exclusive Beat

Cheap exclusive beats are the best deals to get but there are very few producers out there who are willing to sell you an exclusive beat from to . Check out thebeattrader for some of those type deals. There are not a lot of producers on that site and understandably so, but the site became very popular for selling low priced exclusive beats a few years ago.

Cheap Non-Exclusive Beats

The next best thing is a low priced non-exclusive. Remember, the catch with non-exclusive beats is that the beat may have been sold several other times before you buy it, so if you are looking for fresh music, make a list of the producers you like on a site and watch their profiles. Good experienced online producers know to cycle out old beats and update their profiles with new beats at least every 2-3 days.

I'd say a fair price to pay for a non-exclusive beat is about . There is an abundant amount of producers selling beats online right now who would fight for your business. Online producers are almost a dime a dozen so it's really easy nowadays to get unique music for your mix-tape, demo, or album at and very affordable price.

Happy Beat Buying!

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Why Use Hip Hop Samples and Loops?

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Whether you use FL Studio, ProTools, DubTurbo or any other music production software, you will be familiar with the loops and samples pre loaded with your software. Yes these are good for beginners, as they give you some set sounds to use when producing your first tracks and beats. However after a while, you will be wanting to update your sound library in order to stay ahead of the game, and stand out from the crowd.

Why Use Hip Hop Samples and Loops?

Most novice producers do not know the difference between a drum loop, and a drum sample. In the Hip Hop game this is very important. Especially if you are looking into updating your sound library and want to know what you are getting.

A drum loop is an audio sound that will usually run for anywhere between 1 and 4 bars. Consisting of several different sounds, all combined together to create drumming sound. As if you have just recorded a drummer playing in the studio, performing a certain beat.

A Drum sample on the other hand is these separate sounds that we piece together to make a drum loop from nothing. Most producers will usually load these effects into a sampler of some sort. For example a keyboard. Which we can then use to trigger various drum effects as we wish. Creating our own custom beats.

So Drum loops are basically preset drum tracks. Even though they are stuck on a preset rhythm. We can still alter the tempo to our personal preference. Where as a drum sample is the loop broken down into smaller parts and you can alter it how you like, and create whatever you want with it.

There are many different loops and samples available to purchase or download. Both free and paid for. In my experience you can find some good free downloads on the net. But so many people use these, it will be hard to find something unique and that stands out from the crowd. If you want the highest quality sounds. Which is a factor to take seriously if you want to be big in the music industry. Then you need to make sure the files you import are of.wav type. Using fresh and new effects will help make your beats & tracks the best they can be. Having abstract sounds, will help grab listeners attention and can make sure your creations are the next big thing.

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