Obstacles for a hip hop beat maker

Posted on 14 August 2009 by

Being an extremely talented and creative individual does not mean you may not face obstacles when it comes to producing your own style of hip hop beats. Many people have found the production of hip hop beats to be not only expensive but time consuming. Whether you’re just starting out with a view to making it a career or hobby, sometimes you might wonder if it is possible given the cost for a hip hop beat maker. However, these days it is much cheaper to get a hip hop beat maker for your computer at home.

A hip hop beat maker contains many of the same features your favorite producers use in toady’s industry. Whether beginner or expert, equipment can be costly. You need a synthesizer, a mixer and various instruments. A hip hop beat maker on your PC is the better choice and is the choice of many of toady’s professional beat makers.

So, what do you need ? Above all, you need a desire to create your own hip hop beats. No amount of equipment, software or money can create that. It has to come from within. You’re also going to want some speakers or headphones for your computer so you can listen as well as your friends. Most commercial hip hop beat maker software is not only affordable but also come with royalty free beat samples to assist you getting started. Most hip hop beat maker software can be purchased online and are easy to use. For you to produce original yet professional beats you will need quality software.

If you weigh the cost of hiring a studio and recording your own music it makes a lot of sense to do this in your own home. Many hip hop beat makers turn their bedroom into their own personal studio where they can work as often and for as long as they want without expensive associated costs with renting a studio nor wait lists to use the equipment. This gives you the opportunity to act now on your creative impulses. You will find you are able to replicate the same instruments if not more on your computer due to the large library of instruments they contain not to mention the thousands of samples. You can produce high quality pieces that you can then demo to friends or potential buyers.

If you’re just beginning, most software comes with tutorials to assist you in getting started on your own beats. You can also find video tutorials for those that learn more by watching. This makes it easy to comprehend and is convenient to do in your own time.

Considering all these points it’s no wonder we see so many hip hop beat makers producing their beats on their computer and sharing them with other people on the Internet. Places like YouTube and myspace are great places to get attention for the hip hop beats you create and to gain that notorious reputation for being someone that can produce attention grabbing beats.

Whether you choose to pursue it as a hobby or career the best part is many people online are willing to buy your hip hop beats off you to use with their own rhymes. You can collaborate with friends and produce an album for less than the cost of buying one.

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Hey hip hop beat maker, where ya from ?

Posted on 12 August 2009 by

Geography has always been one of the means to define a hip hop beat maker. In days gone by you could pick where a beat maker was from by listening to their slang and sound.

Beat makers would use this as a source of authenticity and pride. These days you see a lot of hip hop artists moving to online beat makers and it this has lead to a lot of producers becoming known regardless of their location.

Nothing proves this better than Jay Z’s upcoming album titled “We Run This Town”. You have to wonder which town are they running when you consider he is collaborating on the album with Kanye West (Chicago) & Rihanna (Barbados) and numerous others.

Jay Z has never shied away from the fact he is from Brooklyn and one of his biggest hits displays this. Aspiring beat makers might wonder sometimes if there is a large change that is taking place in the industry.

With the hip hop movement moving on a global scale, some might argue where you’re from is not as important as it once was as a lot of artists have moved online to places like Myspace and Mp3.com. From these sites we’re seeing a distinct change in hip hop. It’s changed from “Where Brooklyn at?” to which site you represent.

If you grew up during the 1990′s you know Outkast is from Atlana, Snoop Dogg is from Long Beach and Nas from New York. Through their beats they represented their cities and their music showed this. If we research the evolution of hip hop it’s clear location was always a part of it. New York has it’s orchestra type sounds and use of drums and scratching. LA takes a laid back approach with a larger focus on gang affiliation.

Hip hop always fed on locality to define it. If you walked the neighborhood and checked out the record shops or attended concerts you realise it was no accident these hip hop producers were earning themselves a reputation locally and then taking it to a global scale. Today we find the hip hop beat maker scene flourishing on websites like Myspace and Youtube.

People with aspirations of getting into the industry have found this an invaluable way to make contacts across the world. It allows you to demo your creations to the world without the limitation of locality. Twitter is the new Atlanta. Myspace is the new NY. Facebook is LA. No-one epitomises hip hop beat making online better than Soulja Boy and his hit Tell’em. He developed a following on Myspace. That’s the focus of where Soulja Boy is from.

The Internet has allowed people with the passions to create their own unique style but on a global scale and in turn this has led to producers gaining valuable exposure from every town on the planet. Gone are the days of the East Coast vs West Coast rapper. These days it is about the type of beat you’re producing. The Internet allows anyone with the ambition to create beats to demo them to the world. With online hip hop beat maker software available to anyone cheaply, we’ve seen an all new sub-genre of hip hop spring up.

The industry has changed for the better. People with aspirations to get their start no longer have to rely on record labels to get heard. Fans make the decision whether a hip hop beat maker will gain recognition. The chain of events now sees a producer creating a beat in his bedroom, posting it on Myspace for the fan to download to his Ipod and share with his friends. The one constant that has not changed is image.

A hip hop beat maker still needs to focus on his image as much as his music. How you develop your Myspace is just as important as how you create your beats. Talib Kewli, who is a rapper from Brooklyn has said now that it’s (hip hop) based on the Internet, it allows you to be more creative. Millions agree with him and their own music proves this point

With labels having less and less influence, artists have found more freedom in the way they create their music. Gone are the days of booking studios and having to purchase expensive equipment just to get started. Many people are doing this with their own hip hop beat maker for next to nothing online and this is where the future of hip hop lies.

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