Beat Making: Learning the Basic Guidelines
Beat making is not as easy as you think.
Even if you are using professional beat maker software, it can take time for you to come up with a good output.
The creation process can be daunting for beginners, but those who are really passionate can come up with excellent tracks that can be compared to the works of professional artists.
Knowing the Process Music fanatics can become very enthusiastic at first.
They have the idea, but no means to materialize it.
This creates a gap in the process.
An idea remains an idea without the right equipment and know-how.
If you have the right equipment or software already, the immediate thing to do is familiarize yourself with it.
Understand the menu and the settings, then start making simple tracks.
People who play instruments may find the next step easy.
However, those who have little or no experience may start by learning from the pros.
It is impossible to learn on your own.
You need to have some tutorial from seasoned beat makers.
Keep in mind that you don't become a pro right away even with the Beat Maker Pro or Apple Logic Studio.
It's not the software that will make your music-it's you! Getting Inspiration The beginning of a project is always the hardest.
How do you make beats? Where do you start? Before you get lost in the beginning, consider listening to published tracks.
You can look for hip-hop or dance music beats online.
YouTube should be your best friend, but there are other music track sharing sites, like SoundCloud.
There is a large collection of published music online, most of which come from amateurs and virtually unknown artists all over the world.
Do not copy their work.
Commencing Many tracks have the 4/4 signature, although you will hear 7/4 or 3/4 signature.
See if your beat maker can produce beats of different time signatures.
Beginners may start with the 4/4 structure just to get the initial feel of using the software.
You can begin with what you have in mind.
The initial beats may sound dull at first.
The next thing to do would be to mix beats.
This is a bit challenging and taxing, because you need to edit your work several times until you get all elements in sync.
You may be compelled to add bass to give the rhythm a push.
Some people add bass during the beginning parts of the beat making.
If you are used to doing that, it's ok, otherwise, do not be too quick in adding bass, because it gives you the illusion that the groove is cool.
Never put bass all over the place.
Are you done? After you have mixed different layers of tracks, you may come up with a seemingly finished track.
However, your work is not over yet.
Reviewing the track is essential.
See how it sounds in headphones and in large stereo speakers.
What sounds good in your headphones may not sound well in large speakers.
The next job would be to have listeners critique your work.
You may find yourself editing a supposed-to-be finished work.
Hip-hop and pop beat makers would do a remix version of the track by adjusting levels of different tracks or adding more elements to the originally mixed track.
Even if you are using professional beat maker software, it can take time for you to come up with a good output.
The creation process can be daunting for beginners, but those who are really passionate can come up with excellent tracks that can be compared to the works of professional artists.
Knowing the Process Music fanatics can become very enthusiastic at first.
They have the idea, but no means to materialize it.
This creates a gap in the process.
An idea remains an idea without the right equipment and know-how.
If you have the right equipment or software already, the immediate thing to do is familiarize yourself with it.
Understand the menu and the settings, then start making simple tracks.
People who play instruments may find the next step easy.
However, those who have little or no experience may start by learning from the pros.
It is impossible to learn on your own.
You need to have some tutorial from seasoned beat makers.
Keep in mind that you don't become a pro right away even with the Beat Maker Pro or Apple Logic Studio.
It's not the software that will make your music-it's you! Getting Inspiration The beginning of a project is always the hardest.
How do you make beats? Where do you start? Before you get lost in the beginning, consider listening to published tracks.
You can look for hip-hop or dance music beats online.
YouTube should be your best friend, but there are other music track sharing sites, like SoundCloud.
There is a large collection of published music online, most of which come from amateurs and virtually unknown artists all over the world.
Do not copy their work.
Commencing Many tracks have the 4/4 signature, although you will hear 7/4 or 3/4 signature.
See if your beat maker can produce beats of different time signatures.
Beginners may start with the 4/4 structure just to get the initial feel of using the software.
You can begin with what you have in mind.
The initial beats may sound dull at first.
The next thing to do would be to mix beats.
This is a bit challenging and taxing, because you need to edit your work several times until you get all elements in sync.
You may be compelled to add bass to give the rhythm a push.
Some people add bass during the beginning parts of the beat making.
If you are used to doing that, it's ok, otherwise, do not be too quick in adding bass, because it gives you the illusion that the groove is cool.
Never put bass all over the place.
Are you done? After you have mixed different layers of tracks, you may come up with a seemingly finished track.
However, your work is not over yet.
Reviewing the track is essential.
See how it sounds in headphones and in large stereo speakers.
What sounds good in your headphones may not sound well in large speakers.
The next job would be to have listeners critique your work.
You may find yourself editing a supposed-to-be finished work.
Hip-hop and pop beat makers would do a remix version of the track by adjusting levels of different tracks or adding more elements to the originally mixed track.
