If you are an aspiring hiphop beat producer, then here is the recipe to produce grooving hiphop beats that will make your audience break the dance floor!
I am going to share with you 3 elements that are going to make or break your hiphop beats. What are they? Okay without much ado, here they are:
The Top 3 Elements of Grooving Hiphop Beats
1) The Drums - This is the one of the most prominent sound in a hiphop beat. In a common hiphop, it is made up of the kick drum, snare and hi-hat. Where the kick drum is the “Boom” and the snare is the “Snap” of what we usually hear the “Boom and Snap”. So, trying to use some hard hitting and booming kick at the low end will get the audience wanted to stand up to dance.
2) The Percussions – All beats has different percussions. But what is percussions actually? It is the background music of your beats that actually determine the genre of your music beats. It can be made up by a lot of different instruments from the regular instruments that we normally hear. And I found Timbaland to be very good in making this unique twist. Master this and your hiphop will have the grooving effect that gets audience total rapture.
3) The Snare – Now you can easily find this in the 2nd and 4th of your beat usually. As aforementioned, this is the “Snap” that will jump out from your beat to get audience attention. Some of the good examples are Forever and Eminem. Try listening to them more often and you will discover how they use the snare in their beats to get your heart pumping hard.
Now you don’t need separate instruments to get a perfect mix of these elements as it used to. Instead, you must have a good beat making software like Sonic Producer that will have all of these instruments in one easy to control interface that allows to make your hiphop beats from your computer.
CLICK HERE to watch a video showing you how making your music beats can be such a fun and easy thing to do. Pay attention to the sound quality of the sample beats and don’t be surprised if you cannot distinguish them with a studio made sound.
Hans is a music beats fanatic and has been making his own beats for over 4 years now owning a library of more than 2,000 music beats.
He spend most of his time developing unique twist to beats style and sequence using various software and instruments in order to create his own signature to the beats produced.
