4 Easy Ways To Make Rap Beats

In today’s article we discuss the 4 Easy Ways To Make Rap Beats. This is in response to a few emails we have been receiving concerning this topic. So if you are an experienced beat maker/producer you may want to skip over this article because this is going to be a real basic outline for those who are just starting out as a rap producer.

What Do You Need To Make Rap Beats

If you are just starting out as a composer of rap songs, you have to equip yourself with certain tools in order to create your beat. This should be obvious because you can not create a beat without instruments or a device that creates sound i.e. a drum machine or music software. So the basics of what you need is something that will allow you to create sound into a rhythm.

If you play an instrument great, that can be your first tool. You should always start with what you have and expand outward. If you play drums, piano, guitar, bongos, violin; use this as a base to create your instrumentals.

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Instruments For Producing Music

The type of instruments you use when creating a beat is entirely up to you. You can as I said play an instrument you hare proficient at, or hire someone to play an instrument you would like to place within your beat.

Alternatively you can use a drum machine such as any one of the MPC series and Maschine or use a music software such as: Fl Studio, Cubase , Pro Tools, Ableton Live.

Best Way To Make Rap Beats

There is no one “best way” to make a beat for a rap song. Like all instrumentals you have to lay the foundation first and build upon that. Most producers start with building a drum line as the foundation, while others use a baseline to start their track. It all depends on what type of producer you are, and what you want to use as a start to your beats. There is no wrong or right method, whatever gets you going, or whatever vibe you feel, go with that.

Beat making is an art form and how ever you plan to approach it is up to you. The best way to create beats is the best way you know how. That is whatever approach you plan to take, take it with confidence.

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Easiest Way To Make Rap Beats

The easiest way to make solely depends on the producer. Who’s to say what is easy or what is hard?

What seems hard to you may be a walk in the park to another producer, and vice versa. What I will say though is don’t start out trying to be someone you’re not.

Always start with the basics and move forward from there. if you find creating beats from instruments easier for you, do that. If you find that your strong point is using a Drum Machine or a Drum Pad then use that to start with.

On the other hand if you enjoy using Music Software then use that and become good at it before trying to incorporate other aspects of your beat making.

All in all if you are going to tackle music production make sure you have a real passion for it or it’s just going to seem like work. You have to have a passion for it and be willing to dedicate hours upon hours to perfecting your craft. Music production is not easy, and on top of that not a lot of people make it as a producer.

This is the same with aspiring rappers around the world. It takes time to make. One thing you should never do is give up, keep on pushing until you make it no matter how long it takes.