Hip Hop Beats Instrumentals: Make Your Own Beats and Instrumentals

I'll admit it. I used to blow hard at making hip hop beats instrumentals. I had invested boatloads of cash on hardware, software, interfaces...and the sad thing was, I thought the more money I spent the better I would get. Um...this is very dumb logic if you hadn't figured it out. Money can't buy skill. If you suck at making beats, throwing money at it will not help you. You have to put in the hours every day trying to write music. Trying to mimic your favorite beat makers is a great start to doing it. Another important factor is what gear you are using. Some of them are more difficult to use than others. Some of them have so many features, that a noob's head will explode trying to wrap their head around it all. But some are much more intuitive...especially the ones that use some sort of step-sequencer to compose. Making hip hop beats instrumentals shouldn't be something that is difficult, it should be enjoyable, or else..what's the point?

Believe it or not...THE FUTURE IS NOW!!! Making hip hop beats instrumentals these days doesn't require the gear that it did even ten years ago. Technology has come a long way, and modern computers have enough processing power to be able to run many applications at once. It used to be that you'd spend a fortune on different gear to perform different tasks. Maybe you would buy a synthesizer for melodic lines, a drum machine for your drum patterns, a sampler to cover what the synths and drum machine couldn't, a mixer to tie them all together, and a multi-track recorder to record it all. These days a single computer has the power to do all of this and more. And when you save a project and close it, when you open it back up it is EXACTLY as you had left it! Try doing that with a minimum of five different pieces of hardware! We live in a great time to be making hip hop beats instrumentals....the technology has made it easier for anyone to participate.

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So hardware is a thing of the past for making hip hop beats instrumentals. Software is in...and it's here to stay. So now it's more or less a question of which software, and how much should you invest if you are new to making beats. The correct way to go about learning how to make beats is to start cheap. Digital products such as software are getting cheaper and cheaper every year. Also, using a product that involves using a step-sequencer to make beats and melodies is much more user friendly than say, a piano roll or standard notation. Unless you are classically trained, I would stay away from any kind of software that uses only standard notation. You want to make beats, not symphonies.

Fortunately there exists a product that not only is cheap and incorporates a step-sequencer, but is 100% online! This means that you can start a project on one computer, and then work on it some more on a different computer! As long as the computer has internet access, you're good to go. Making hip hop beats instrumentals has changed a lot in the last twenty years...don't be caught behind the times and pay more than you have to for great results.