Make Your Beats

Make Your Beats

Regardless of the kind of music you’re into, your work can only be distinct if it’s refreshingly innovative and clearly reflective of your style. You must make your beats and ensure that each and every one of them counts. But as we all know, that’s easier said than done.

Countless things can go wrong if you’re not adept at making your own beats. Finding the right beats for your work is virtually an art of its own and a lot of up-and-coming artists have failed to make a spectacular debut launching all because of selecting the wrong set of beats.

Make Your Beats Count by Mastering Your Genre

While there is certainly no rule against starting your own genre, such a lofty goal might be a bit inappropriate – at least in terms of resources and timing – if you are only at the formative stages of your career. Rather than taking an immediate risk with your work, why not master your genre first? You can still be true to yourself even if you’re in the same genre with a thousand other artists. Just let your artistic side run free as you make your beats.

Mastering your genre is always the first essential step to success. Familiarize yourself with the classics in your genre, and determine the elements that make them extraordinarily successful.

When it’s time to make your beats, you’ll be pleased to know that today’s aspiring musicians may avail of the same technological advancements that professional artists have exclusively enjoyed in the past. Now, you don’t have to spend a lot of money in order to create phenomenal beats.

Make Your Beats from Bass, Audio and Drum Components

Now, the key to making your beats can be summarized in three fundamental but critical steps: creating a baseline, audio loops, and finally, midi drum patterns. Whichever genre you’re into, you’ll always have to start with these three beat-building blocks.

The bass line is often the first element that beat makers focus on because it sets the mood of the piece and lays the groundwork on which other aspects of your music will revolve upon.

A well-crafted bass line is crucial because it’s more often than not played in a repeating loop, and no one wants to hear the same beats over and over if it doesn’t sound great!

Audio loops are considered to be the primary component when making your beats for genres like rap and hip hop. You can use all sorts of combinations of instruments and sounds to create great loops and you can further enhance it with a bit of compression, stretching, or adding a host of other special sound effects to transform the mood or tone of your work. With the first loop over, any subsequent loops – if you choose to create them – would be easier to develop.

Lastly, we have midi drum patterns. You can use several and varied ones at the same time just as long as they result in great music and not an unpleasant cacophony of sounds.

With midi drum patterns, midi notes are either set in a pattern or a group of unique notes converted into a repeating loop and played as a secondary layer on top of your bass line.

Make Your Beats