Instrumental Beats Hip Hop

Technology has paved way to a lot of thing that we cannot do on our own. If you cannot create the beat yourself, it would be beneficial on your part to make use of the options available online and make use of it to your advantage. Getting access to software that will allow you to make your own rap beats is not that difficult. All you need is a computer with enough free space to install the software, and access to the Internet where you will be able to get to a source link to download the software from.

The software is manly concentrated on allowing you to produce and create your own music digitally with the help of your computer. Having the software installed on your computer, you have to familiarize yourself with how to use it so you can pick the right instruments that you will make use of, and let the sequencer allow you to create the notes as well as the beat for the rap music that you are creating.

If you are new at this, first thing that you can to make your own rap beats using a software is through downloading a demo version of it. Most of these software providers online allows you to download a demo version or a free trial version of the software so you can evaluate if it truly works for you.

Let's say that you are now satisfied with the features you have learned regarding the software that you are going to use to create these rap beats, you may now opt to purchase the full version of the software so you can maximize its use.

Again this is in NO PARTICULAR ORDER! Just a list of 50.

1 Eminem - hate him or love him, he's insane lyrically and one of the greatest rappers ever!

2 Slug - again...hate him or love him he's insane lyrically and one of the greatest white MCs ever!

3 EL-P - tremendous MC. End of story...NO wait! Maybe top 3 white mc's of all time!

4 Cage - started out as a dope MC, now he's even better than that.

5 Copywrite - anyone need a dope punch line? Ohio's shining son!

6 MC Chris - nerd? Yes! Skills? Yes and he's also pretty entertaining

7 Necro -The Devil with a mic! Necro took Horrorcore to another level!

8 Adeem - From mc battles to albums, Glue is the man. Great live performances also.

9 3rd Bass - lest not forget our history people! The first to put Vanilla Ice on Blast! Pop pop goes the...

10 Aesop Rock - In the conversation for top 3 best white boy's ever!

11 Diabolic -Complete arrogance, can back up every word he spits! Battles or Wax!

12 Sage Francis - The John Lennon of Hip Hop. Dynamic, creative and one of the best ever!

13 Vinnie Paz - Yes he has mad skills and may actually possess the mind control of a JEDI!

14 Okwerdz -Battle rappers can't make music? He is starting to change that tide & help bring Cali back!

15 Apathy - Wizard on the mic,. Witty, Rugged, whatever needs done. It gets done!

16 Ill Bill - Necro's brother, what do you expect besides sick wicked rhymes on the mic!

17 DZK - Mr. internet earned his fans 1 at a time, the old fashion way! When he's on, it's beast mode!

18 Haystak - Earned all of his stripes the hard way. Many years & many albums. Also MANY Fans!

19 Eyedea - Wow! From the humble beginnings of Scribble Jam to pristine albums! Eye is the man!

20 Beastie Boys - once again lest not forget our past! Some true classic albums under their belts!

21 Mac Lethal - They rap in Kansas City? Brilliant delivery and song writing! Not to shabby at battling either!

22 Jamie Madrox -The illest lyricist on Psychopathic records! He's no gimmick! He's got skills for days!

23 Esoteric - Creative, witty, true lyricist.

24 The Saurus - Battle raps galore. Some good songs also. Helping pave the fresh coast's comeback!

25 Lil Wyte - Selling over 250,000 indie, of his debut album without marketing! Game over!

26 Dirtball - Now officially a member of KMK, he will continue to dazzle fans with solid material.

27 Ra The Rugged Man - This man is always underrated! He is a true beast!

28 Grayskul - Maybe unknown to some of you, very skilled MC.

29 Ryu - Demigodz- He and the rest of his crew just simply murder microphones

30 Mini Thin - What are they putting in the moonshine in West Virginia? This hillbilly rapper melts mics!

31 Celph Titled - Often overlooked & underrated, He's a complete package of pen & delivery. A credit to FL.

32 JoJo Pellingrino -Haven't heard from Joey in awhile, but he's put out a lot of solid material in NYC.

33 Alchemist - Producer extraordinaire and blazes the mic with heat also.

34 Blaze Ya Dead Homie - another solid artist from psychopathic. Never sleep on this guy!

35 Remedy - White boy in the Wu Tang Clan? Nuff said!

36 Big B - Great MC who has carved a very nice lane for himself. Truly talented! A left coast gem!

37 Illmaculate - One of the sickest battle MC's to ever live and his songs keep getting stronger!

38 YelaWolf - The only guy in Alabama making noise and it's LOUD! He's got skills & wit for days!

39 Prozak - Strange Music! How can you argue with any of the skills coming from that camp!

40 Kno - Cunninlynguists- Versatility, Humor, Stage Presence and kills the mic!

41 Evidence - Dialated Peoples- Impressive Skills all the way around. Solid resume & rep!

42 Bubba Sparxxx - Haven't heard much from him lately, He did have is day though. Truly talented.

43 Asher Roth - Please don't judge this guy on his first album. His freestyles are better than that!

44 Iron Solomon - NY Battle Don! Some solid tracks and commanding presence!

45 Non Phixion - If you don't know, then you have you been hiding under a rock!

46 The Streets - The only non- U.S. member of the list. (UK) Some people don't get it, I Do!

47 Boondox - The Scarecrow of Georgia, When he's on, the track gets murdered & it's psychopathic!

48 Yak Ballz - Terrific delivery, punches, and comedic flow. Great MC.

49 Paul Wall - Mr. bling grill put out some solid material, Haven't heard alot in awhile, had his time though!

50 Kottonmouth Kings -The West Coasts Version of ICP but hey rap a lot better & get a lot higher!

So that's my list of the top 50 white MC's. Some you assuredly know, some you might be sleeping on, I promise everyone on this is top notch and deserves a listen or an album purchase. I'd appreciate comments and anyone else's insight on who you would add to the list.

Please stay tuned for some future articles of mine, the worst rappers of all time! The top 10 lyricists of all time, The biggest flops albums of all time and the top 10 female MC's of all time!

Hip hop dancing is an ideal way to express one's creativeness. It features self impressions and the dances come from the soul. The dancing represents body movements that go with the beat and rhythm of hip hop music. There is breaking, popping, locking, and free styling in hip hop dances. The jumps, breakages, and rotations in the movements are combined in such a way that the dance style becomes an informal and explosive one.

Hip hop dancing is considered a good exercise for those persons who perform these dances. It helps the dancers to improve flexibility, to develop body balance, and to coordinate the muscles. This dance allows the dancers to improve their own style and to remain in good body shape. It also leads the dancers to a state of spiritual wholeness.

Hip hop dancing includes many steps and movements that are not present in ballet and ballroom dancing. The jazz, ballet, and other traditional dance forms are technical and require more formal training. There is a term for each and every movement in jazz and ballets. But this is not the case with hip hop dancing and the dancers experience freedom while dancing. The only thing the dancers should have is to become familiar with the dancing technique.

Hip hop dancing can be learned by all those who are interested in dancing. There is no age limitation or restriction for learners and dancers. It is also not necessary that the instructor should be a professional dancer. However, this kind of dance is slightly difficult to learn because of the various body movements.

Depending on your situation as far as finances, this article deals with how to make your own beats for free, but there are many pay programs available to those for who that isn't a problem.

In matching your software also shop the features of the different ones available, and match that against your goals for your tracks. They differ in what they offer, so there may be one that offers one thing you need, and another has something else but not that, and then there may be one that has both. Knowing your music goals will help you in shopping the software.

The first brick in this wall is a good sequencer. Two popular ones are Propellerheads's Reason, and Image-Line's FL Studio.

Sound editor comes next. These you will use for editing wave files, a must when using samples. (Samples are parts of audio tracks used as a foundation for your music).

You can obtain samples from numerous places - CD samples, or old records, etc. You'll see once you start to lay your tracks how invaluable a good sound editor is when making your own beats.

To summarize, this article has given you some good general advice on how to start making your own beats.

Many people are under the false impression that the internet has actually ruined music in a way. There are countless amount of artists in the major industry that are trying their hardest to make sure that things like cyber pirating are stopped by any means. This is because artists tend to believe that the declining record sales for major labels is due to the fact that communication has become so easy and fast with the online community. Songs are being spread virally by fans through email attachments and file transfers, so there's an illusion created.

If you'd like to read the truth, here it is... Even with cyber pirating hitting the market as hard as it has, most music experts agree that only about 20% of sales are lost due to pirating or illegal downloading. That means that a huge 80% of music lovers are still buying music as they come across artists they like.

It's my personal belief that records will always sell, for all of eternity, for as long as there are fans to buy the music. Why? Well I say this because those who buy music don't buy it just because they want to listen to it... In fact, in today's industry it's much more likely that they have access to those same songs for free... The reason they buy is because they want to support the artists which they look up to so much.

Today's industry is literally at the best point it's ever been, for independents anyway. Yes, the major labels are seeing less sales and they're not acquainting themselves to the new digital era very well... But independents are doing great! Majors are simply using the same old business plan and it's starting to become quickly obsolete. They put huge amounts of money into each artist they promote and most of the time they don't even come out with a profit. The major's business model is basically to promote everybody with the same amount of mega dollars spent and drop the artists from the label who don't do as well. But 9/10 artists on a major label won't make anything for the company! That's because of those stupidly spent dollars, which don't turn profit easily. The few mega famous artists who the companies represent bring in enough success for the majors to continue on.

Independents run on a completely different business model. It cannot be assumed that all of the music industry is doing badly when that simply isn't the case. Last year, in 2009, Billboard magazine predicted that 50% of all album and single sales were made by independents... That's some serious selling power! It's because websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have made it possible to promote on a wide scale without the need for a big budget.

On top of free promotion, distribution has also (finally) become affordable. Tunecore, an online company, allows artists to get distributed on all the major mp3 retailers such as iTunes and Rhapsody for an extremely affordable rate. Anybody can afford their rate, it's the kind of thing you can pay for with a 9-5 job and the risk is so low it's ridiculous. The first thing you have to do, though, before you can start promoting yourself and making money from your music, is to buy beats so you have the right to sell your songs. You need a proper license to your music if you expect to come up. Again, the internet has helped in this respect. A company called Beats4Legends provides instrumentals to independents who are working on a small budget. Click the links in the paragraph below to visit Beats4Legends today and purchase instrumentals online easily.

Now you might be wondering why so much music sounds alike today and above it states experiment. This is because you want to take your musical risks wisely. Over the centuries music listeners have subconsciously become accustomed to music that follows a general pattern. Note it says "general" because there are many hit songs that have broken the "rules". Typically you will hear a song with an intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, outro. Also notice how during the chorus you will likely hear the "hook" which is the part of the song you're likely to hum or catch onto first. Most songs are made or broken by their hooks so when it comes to building one make sure it stands out!

There can be many or few stages to making music depending on your preferred workflow. Below is a tried and tested method used by many today.

Stage 1: Composing, Arranging

For music making, it is generally necessary to have a keyboard to input your music if you aren't going to be recording every instrument live. It is important to learn an instrument as it'll be indispensable to a music maker unless you are a sample based producer or maybe rely on session musicians to translate your musical ideas into the computer. Using a midi-keyboard for creating music is great because it gives it that live/human feel that doesn't make a record sound so mechanical!

These days, people typically start off with the beat, finish it off, send it off to the singer and then re-work it when the singer sends back the vocals...what a process!..but if done write it can be very rewarding.

Composing

Before you start off, you want to have general idea of what you are about to make. Ask yourself; is it a dance, sad, smooth song? Will it centre on dark musical themes associated with genres such as hip-hop or will it gravitate towards the lighter pop sound? Start with a song name in mind and a general storyline (not lyrics) of the song. This will later on help make the song more exciting as you can use a subtle instrument for touching parts and then a full on wall of sound banging on the speakers for an intense part. However, it is not rare to start a song with one idea and then end up with a totally different one! Just as long as the end result is something that you know you love.

Typically you want to start off the composition with your songs "main attraction"...this can be a killer drum pattern, piano or instrumental melody. This will allow you to build your song around what makes it great and not have to begin figuring out what makes it great when you finish the beat. Usually starting off with a mediocre sound will give you a mediocre track! Starting with the chorus can yield some amazing results though it can be long and tedious trying to find that right melody!...but once it's done right, the rest of the song feels like it's just falling nicely into place. The instruments you choose for this stage are very important...you have to decide whether you want powerful kicks that won't require too much support from a bass guitar/sound or maybe if the vocals shall later on take 90% of the attention of your chorus/hook and the instrumentation becomes very simplistic for that part. Try some combinations that work best for the song the song.

After the "main attraction" you can now build the rest of your song...some songs these days don't differ too much between sections meaning that building the rest of the song will be easy whilst some songs have a lot of different sections to keep you interested. Typical commercial dance music has a lot of variety in it. This is mainly because you have a lot of "space" to work with. If the average length of songs is between 3.30 to 4.30 minutes and a dance song is at 120bpm, this means that they can get in 30bars of music for every minute of music as compared to a slow n steady hip-hop song at 60bpm that will only get 15 bars to work with in that same minute. Of course you can spice things up in the 60bpm one but the 120bpm song will give you better options to work with.

After completing the beat, you then send it to an artist usually who can song-write and sing as well. This process of writing lyrics and figuring out the write vocal melody for the song can be so much fun as you'll discover a whole new dimension to your song. For the song-writing, just remember that something catchy and yet original will make for the best song. Repetition used wisely can really make a song stick into the listeners mind...but use it too much like that song "Lose Control" by LL Cool J for the lines "zzzzzz" and you'll have your listeners shunning the lack of creativity

Arranging
This process begins when the final vocals from the singer are sent back to the producer. Put the vocal tracks and their backing tracks in to the song and begin to mess around with its structure. Some songs sound best when the chorus hits you from second 1 and yet some sound best after a nice gradual build up to the climax. Arranging is often overlooked as an important process but it is essential to a good song. Knowing where to place the sections in your song will help highlight the crucial parts and create some nice crescendos to parts of the song.

During the arranging process, play around with the instruments in your beat...do they sound right with the voice?...are there any clashing notes between the lead instrument and the lead vocal? Some songs don't gel together with the beat because an outstanding beat would have been put underneath and outstanding vocal! You need to decide which parts of the song will have the beat shining and which parts will have the vocals shining...this should keep things interesting and provide a balance in the mix. Playing around with not velocities here may help as well as provide a human feel to the song but usually the delete button works best. Some music makers hate deleting the parts they've created and may end up with too many instruments in 1 section of the song...don't even think about falling into that trap.

After this you will be ready to track out your song to prepare it for stage 2 which is the mixing process. Mixing is actually challenging and usually requires a professional to get the best out of your song.

One very underused method of generating bass tones is to use wind tones and some lead synth patches. Using the lower registers of these instruments and sounds can produce a wicked bass sound that lends itself well to many pop and urban styles of music. The sound may come off a little buzzy, but a little processing (low pass filters come to mind) can solve this and get you out of any messy predicament. Before long, you'll have a jamming sound you can be proud of.

You can use electric guitar patches (and even the acoustic varieties) for the same application. The added advantage here is that even in the lower-mid regions, the sound could still pass as a pure bass sound, and the guitars generally have a very warm and welcoming presence that will help the bass sound be heard in a full mix.
Sometimes the fret needs to be added to bass sounds, especially those derived from wind instruments like the flute. You can add frets organically by adding another track and tapping the side of a guitar near a microphone to the start of every bass note. This technique is becoming more and more popular.

One element you must not have in your bass sound is reverb. Not even a little! If you use a track-wide reverb, you can still pass it over the bass line but only as long as it's not meant to be heard but just adds some character. The bass frequencies do not sit well with reverb, and using more than a tiny, little, wee bit of reverb will quickly muddy up the track and your mastering or mixing engineer (if you don't do this yourself) will be very angry with you! You have been warned.

I hope you've found this useful. Lastly, I just want to also add this: don't overlook simple sounds. For decades, video game makers have added bass sounds using the most simple generators, and even though technology has exploded, it is still worthwhile to go with synthesized bass sounds and anything that sounds good. You don't have to get the latest and greatest, just get what sounds good and make some wonderful music.