Instrumental Beats Hip Hop

If you aim to create a unique hip hop beats, then you should have a dependable beat maker software. Sonic Producer is an example of this. Now here are the basic steps to make your own hip hop beats:

1. Pick your style - Start with some basic styles and later on, once you finish the whole music, you can experiment on your own style.

2. Choose a great hip hop artist - This will be your inspiration in creating your own hip hop beats. Familiar yourself with his styles. You can make use of them as your basis later on. You can choose as many as you want.

3. Listen To Their Songs - Once you have chosen for the artists, the next thing to do is to listen to their song and check see how the flow goes. If you hear something you really like, try to remember that. Or you can mix that with another cool beats you'll hear from other songs.

4. Lay out the beat - Now this is where you'll start to create your own beats and you'll start it with your intro, chorus, and verse, bridge, etc. Make sure to lay out them accordingly. The basic form in rap is 2 or 4 bar intro, 16 bar verse, 8 bar chorus, 16 bar verse, 8bar chorus, 16 bar verse, 8 bars chorus.

5. Lay down the beat - Everything starts with the drum. Learn the Kick, Snare, Hi hat for a good start. And make sure to record while you are working on this so you can check how it goes later on.

6. Lay down a melody - Your skills in manipulating the keyboard controls are needed here. But for starters, just go with the basic, until you learn some techniques. This can be made easy though if you have a dependable beat maker software like Sonic Producer that contains tutorials and techniques you can apply.

7. Layering The Beat - Layering is important after creating your initial beats to make it sound like a professional music. To do this, apply your instruments to fill the gap in between the intro, verses, and chorus.

8. Apply Panning - It's only like using an instrument all the way to the right, left, or anywhere in between. It gives each track its own little space in the stereo field. You don't have to follow certain rules here. You will make your own rule.

9. Do Some Mixing - Do some mixing of individual track. Make sure not to distort them. To keep it safe, apply some instruments if you notice a little distortion.

10. Bounce - This is it. After you heard your creation, you can now import this into an MP3 format, save to a CD or upload online. If you want to upload to the internet use, 320kbps (the highest.mp3 quality) or 128kbps.

As you can see, your beat maker software will make it very easy for you to make your own beats. At first, you are expected to be a little slow, but you'll master this later on. As long as the beat maker software is equipped with comprehensive tutorials and techniques you can use.

A rap song can be pretty boring without the right beat. The beat is in my opinion the element of the song that takes the rap to the next level and makes it stand out in the crowd. Even 2pac and Biggie would have a hard time if their beats were not up to par.

The two most important elements of a rap beat are its depth and its originality. By depth I mean how it makes you feel when you hear it. Every rap song has a message, and the beat needs to bring that message home.

It is also important that the beat stand out in the crowd. This is where originality comes in. In the first seconds of your beat you have to make it unique so the person who listens to it recognizes the song and are ready to join in on it.

A rap beat typically consists of a loop. A loop is a set of bars repeating over and over. So how to you make a great loop?

Begin with your hi hats. The hi hats sets the basics for your rap beat and let you decide the speed of your beat. There is nothing complex with you hi hats so make it simple. You can add more hi hats later if needed.

Second step is to add the kicks and the snares. The kicks are what most people will consider the baseline. These are the deep elements of the base. The snares are the mid and high tones and are usually lighter than the kicks.

After you have configured the speed and your base line you have your skeleton ready. Next thing is to add your instrumentals and vocals.

It is the combinations all these elements that build the feeling and originality in your rap beat.

There is no need to overdo your rap beats

Many newbies does the mistake of working too much on their rap beats. They add layer upon layer of instrumentals and work the beat line to much.

Keep the beat as simple as possible. It is not how many sounds you have that counts. It is how much the rap beats can bring emotions upon the listener. Spend some time listening to the beats of your favorite producer and you will probably notice that their beats are not very complex. They are simply unique.

Also keep in mind that you are not the Star of your rap beat. This is the rappers job. Your job is to make the rapper have an easy day at work and help him or her bring out the creativity inside.

Hip-hop was initiated as a cultural movement by inner-city youth, mostly Latinos, Hispanics, and African Americans in New York City, in the early seventies. The word "rap" was derived in the sixties, from a slang word that meant conversation.

Hip-hop has two main historical eras, the old school hip-hop era from 1970-1985 and the golden age hip-hop era from 1985-1993. The golden age of hip-hop began only when it entered the mainstream of music and it consolidated the sounds of the West Coast and the East Coast.

The origin of hip-hop music is from African American and West African music. Contributions of griots like The Last Poets, Jalal Mansur Nurriddin, and Gil Scott-Heron were significant in a big way for the advent of hip-hop in the 1960s. Hip-hop had originally begun in the Bronx. Funk and soul music were played a lot in block parties. In the beginning, the DJs at these parties began separating the percussion breaks from hit songs. They started realizing that these breaks were more entertaining and groovy. This technique had become widespread in Jamaica and had spread considerably in the New York community via the Jamaican immigrants.

Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash were the pioneers in the hip-hop industry and other DJs had extended the short percussion interludes of funk records and created a more danceable sound. As a result, remixes had become popular with the advent of mixing and scratching techniques. Many styles of hip-hop had developed in the golden age of hip-hop.

At present, hip-hop is enjoyed all around the world. In spite, of all the controversies created by hip-hop artists they are still growing in number. Hip-hop music is sold all over the world in stores and even online.