How to Make a Good Beat With a Beat Maker

By Mickey Roukeayeal

A good beat maker should have some standard features available at your fingertips. These include a 16-track sequencer. Each track should have its own volume control and any effect including filter envelopes, echo, reverb etc should be accessible to each individual track.

You'll also desire access to the BPM or BPM control. This is vital naturally because each song, beat or mix will have a different speed.

Above and past this, you'll desire your beat maker to have a straightforward export to mp3 button and masses of sounds for you to work with. Ensure the beat maker you purchase comes with masses of sound files for you to play with and straightforward export options.

A good beat maker will also have some stand-alone features. This means that you'll be ready to write a piano-key set which would let you write bass-lines, piano parts, guitar parts and synthesizer sounds, all without going to a third party software. This makes the beat maker stand-alone and will permit you to provide the hook, verse and percussion parts all from one interface while no doubt providing a mix-down for final achieving mastery of. The best part is this can all be provided for slightly less than $40.

When writing a beat, it is often a good concept to begin with the drum sounds or the percussion. You don't have to end the percussion part, but adding the hi-hat, bass drum and snarl parts would be a great idea. From there, you are able to add a hook, which can include a bass-line, synth-sounds, guitar parts etc . Don't over complicate this part, just attempt to put some familiar notes together so that the listener wants to keep listening.

Beyond that, remember that writing a beat on a beat maker is going to be an organic process and the song should evolve over time. If you find the song or hip-hop beat just isn't going as planned don't be scared to trash the project and start over . The point it that you do not need to be a perfectionist when writing music because this can ruin the creative flow and stop you from throwing out that fantastic hook that is everybody is waiting to hear.

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