If you want to make your own beats, you will want to start by making beats that fit your music style. Most beat makers are interested in writing hip-hop and rap beats. There are fortunately a lot of good software music interfaces for writing hip-hop and rap beats - in fact most of the less expensive beat makers are made for rap and hip-hop artists in mind.
To make your own beats, you will want to have a few crucial features on the beat maker of your choice. The software beat maker should have a 16-track sequencer. This is also known as a multi-track sequencer and you should be able to control the volume of each track as well as the BPM (beats per minute) of the entire song.
A good beat maker is also going to provide a piano-set - which means that you can add the hook to the song. This is important because if you don't have other music sequencer software, you will want to write the entire song from the music beat maker's interface. If you want to make your own beats, make sure that you can easily export the song to Mp3 - because what is the point of writing a great loop, beat or hook if you can't import it to a website or burn it to disk or upload it to your Mp3 player to show your friends.
Try to remember that for under $45 you can probably get a good software beat maker that should provide easy-to-use features because it will have an intuitive interface. When you first begin to make your own beats, you should probably start with less advanced music software sequencers, and when writing hip-hop beats, sometimes less is more.
Just remember that if you want to make your own rap and hip-hop beats, you should get a 16-track sequencer (because 8-tracks just isn't enough) it should have volume control and BPM control and you should also be able to export it to Mp3. Beyond that make sure it has a good sound library and provides a piano-set so you can add the hook. Because what is the point of making your own beats if you can't make a great hook?
Washington is a Webmaster for SoftwareBeatMaker.com. For more information regarding how to make your own beats and music software for making hip-hop beats go to SoftwareBeatMaker.Com/
Friday, February 13, 2009
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