Making your own hip-hop beats is easier than you may imagine. Your years of being a music lover and listening to your favorite songs have made you an expert in knowing what sounds good to you. Your ability to pay attention and listen as made you very distinguishing them what you think sounds good.

If you are listening to a song, and there is a flat note, or beat is off or late, you will recognize it instantly. This basic skill is what will allow you to make your own great hip-hop beats and produce awesome rap songs. It really is as simple as listening, paying attention, and counting. The timing of beats is basically just simple math. If you can listen and recognize where you think a beach should be in a pattern, you already have all that it takes to make great hip-hop beats on your own.

Using your own beat making software on your computer, you simply plug in the beats where you want them and listen back to see if that’s what you intended. If it doesn’t sound right to you, you simply put the beats in a different spot until it sounds like what you wanted. That’s basically all making beats consists of.

So if you can listen, and if you can count, you can plug drumbeats into the appropriate notes that you are aiming for. It’s not rocket science. The difference between an amateur beats maker and a professional hip-hop producer is that for one thing the Pro has more experience but more importantly the inspiration.

The technical aspect of making hip-hop beats in a beat making program is not that complicated. You already know how to use a computer and most likely many of the programs on your computer. What’s inside you and what drives you musically is where you will get inspiration from your beat making. But plugging in beats where you want them to be is not a big deal.