Five Tips That Will Put You Above the Competition, How To Make Beats

Making Beats is a very fun and profitable hobby or profession depending on how serious you’re 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 am going to do is share five tips with you on how to make great beats.

Tip one Pick the right music production tools

As I have 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 two Study The Right Music Producer

Another helpful element around this topic. There a lot of producers out there in the game it would be wise to pick one or two and don’thing 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 three Chose good hip hop samples

This goes back to tip two (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 have 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’re messing around with a piece of software or hardware. Make a pattern that you like then change the sounds. You will notice it does not sound as good because the sounds are not as good. Or what you can do and this is probably the best test. When you’re in guitar center play the beat pattern from a hot song on the radio you will notice it does not sound that good that will be because you do not have the original producers sounds

Tip four Remake Other Producers Songs

This is vital in your hip hop production development for two reasons. 1. It’ll get your familiar with the limitations or true power of your production tool. 2. It’ll train your ear to pick out good sounds and it’ll 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 five Practice Practice

It is 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’ll become at making beats. A lot of companies these days do not mind if they’ve subpar material as they’re not music lovers they only care about meeting deadlines. If you do not believe me just listen to some of the music that’s on MTV commercials and product commercials they’re 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 does not get any easier than this people