Make Beats Online Now
Make Beats Online Now
How to Make Beats Online
Making beats online has never been easier. There are so many computer programs now that you hardly even need a drum machine or synthesizer anymore. and that gives the aspiring beat maker or producer a great advantage, because music equipment is not cheap. You can make your own beats with software that sounds just as good as thousands of dollars worth of studio equipment, but you have to know how it all works in the first place.
The first thing you should decide when you make your own beats is the style of the song. Do you want a fast miami booty bass beat? A sliky slow jam? Maybe you want a dirty down south banger, but first you need to figure out the tempo and the time signature. The tempo is how fast the song is. The time signature represents how many beats are in a measure. All of this information can be adjusted in the musical software. It’s all about counting. Making beats is no more complicated than filling time slots with the appropriate beats.
If you are familiar with how to make your own beats you should already understand the different drum parts. Generally the programmed drum sounds mimic the parts of a live drum kit. The snare is usually the most prominent drum beat and keeps the time, while the bass kick booms below to the rythm of other instruments (bass or synth lines). Hi hats and other cymbals fill in the gaps with syncopation.
I find it helpful to make beats like this: first I decide on the tempo and time signature, then I assign the snare hit in the same place over the course of the measures. This sets a basic anchor point, like a metronome. Next, depending on how funky or solid I want the rythm to be I fill in the bass kick to add some rythm. If I have a melody, synth line, or bass line in mind already i’ll match the bass kick to the rythm of the melody for support. Next I’ll add in some hi hats (open and closed) to match the fastest notes of the melody. Adding and dropping bass beats and hi hat beats will definitely make your pattern more funky and you really have to just experiment at this point. Change the drum sounds too. An 808 snare might not be right but a distorted sampled snare might hit the spot perfectly. The same goes for all of the drum sounds – use your sound bank!
Once all of the three major drum parts are set fairly well (and you’ll know when, because you won’t be able to stand still) add in claps, bongo sounds, shakers, tambourine sounds, and other percussion sounds to add flavor and life to the beat. A little can go a long way here. Think of the “wine glass” sounding bells sampled on Run DMC’s ‘peter piper’. It doesn’t take much to make a great beat, it just takes the right thing.
Another point that can’t be left out is to listen to music you love and figure out what they are doing. If you listen to Dr. Dre and try to make one of his beats (i didn’t say use one of his beats) then you will understand the placement of beats and notes in his patterns. Listen to James Brown and notice how he starts a lot of his rythm parts on “the one”, or the first note of the the measure. It’s usaully his most prominent beat, and then he uses the up beat (think reggae) to mix in the funk. Learn from the masters and listen, listen, listen. Make your own beats solid, unique and irresistable and you can’t lose.
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