To Plug or Not to Plug. Powering Live is MPC 2. Akai Professionals new update to the MPC software. Capable of running natively on the MPC Live in standalone mode. So you want to learn how to make beats and songs Welcome to the ultimate guide on beat making, music production and how to make songs for beginners. Music Producer Boi1das Official Blog. Cardi B, Kodak Black, YFN Lucci Rich The Kid Headline The 1st Annual Trap Circus Festival In Miami. DJ Shawdi P Time. Is. Money Free Drum Kit. For Showing Us So Much Love We Decided To Drop Something Special For You The Best Free Drum Kit You Will Ever Download Includes Some Brand New Custom Drum Sample Sounds From Our Drum Kit auce 4 Sale All Created By DJ Shawdi PWe Also Threw In A Preview Of Our Special Electra. X Sound Bank That We Will Be Dropping Very Soon This Preview Bank Will Also Work In Electra. This Drum Kit Is In The Style Of Producers Like Zaytoven, DJ Plugg, TM8. Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital. This Free Drum Kit Is Perfect For New Trap, Trap Soul,  Rn. B Beats We Guarantee You Will Not Be DisappointedHow to Make Beats in 2. How to Make Beats Using Your Software. Basically what you do is choose a module like a synth, sampler or drum machine you want to start with. Then you go to your softwares browser and load up some soundssamples. If youre sampling or using a synth, youre not stuck to the defaultspresets. You can create your own unique sounds too. After that you program click little boxes with the mouse or play out on your MIDI hardware controller a melodydrum line within the sequencer. You create different musical loops or longer musical sections and stack them on top of each other. How long should your music loops be The longer the better. TriSamples-808-Trapstep-Pack-Vol-1-Artwork.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1' alt='Zaytoven Kits S' title='Zaytoven Kits S' />I have the kits your looking for. Short list not all. Ave Mcree Drip Hop Kit Maschine Masters Ghetto Gospel V5 Maschine Masters Focus. Home page of Trap Camp Entertainment, a musiciangroup from Atlanta, Georgia. Yea, we make loop based music that repeats, but the more repetitive something is, the quicker it becomes boring to a listener. Dont do a small 2 bar loop. And if you really wanna get wild try making 1. Then you take those different loops you created and arrange them in the arrangement window so that it sounds like a full song. Once thats done you add finishing touches drop out the drums in certain parts, add cool sound effects in others, etc. The idea is to add variety that makes a listeners ear keep interest in your song. Then, if you want to go that far, you can do some basic mixing adjusting levelsvolumeetc and even record some vocals on top. And there you have it youre a damn producer now. Back to Top. Where to Start When Making Beats. This is a question that many new producers and even experienced ones struggle with. And to be real, theres no right answer. Its all up to what you prefer or what works best for you. The whole process that you use is called workflow. And different software has different ideal workflows. But dont sweat it too much. It doesnt matter how you start, as long as you finish. But here are the basic elements every beat has Rhythm drums, bass lines, percussion elementsAccompaniment chord progressions, harmonies, etc. Lead Melody the main catchy melodicvoice elements. Transitions between song sections i. Effects and other one off soundsinstruments to spice shit up. Proper Arrangement making the song tell a story through change ups. Back to Top. Watch Out for This New producers often get overly excited when making beats and fill up every sonic crevice with some type of sound. The finished product sounds way too busy and complex. That can be ok if youre just making instrumental music. But if youre planning to put your beats up for sale online then thats a no no. You have to remember that someone else is going to be singing or rapping on top of your beat. So you cant make it too crowded otherwise there will be no space for the vocalist When it comes to making music, its often true that LESS IS MORE. Simple beats are often then best ones in these cases. So be careful when youre making your beats to not stuff them with too much sound. Want to Learn How to Make Beats EXACTLY Like Your Favorite ProducerCheck this out today Back to Top. Different Music Production Methods. Starting With Drums. Some producers start with their drums. In certain genres of music like Hip Hop drums play a very important, central role. Theyre the heart of the instrumental. So what some producers will do is start with a kick drum and a snare drum to lay out the basic pattern. Theyll then add in some high hats and other percussion elements to get a full sounding drum loop. Once the drum loop has a nice groove to it, theyll begin on a melody or bassline. Some will move to a basic chord progression instead, and then move onto a lead melody. It all depends on what works for you. Starting With Melodies. On the flip side, other producers already have a melody line or idea in their head. They start out with that melody by recreating what they hear in their head on their software, and then build the rest of the beats elements around that one melody. Other times, a producer will have nothing in their head and they wont start with drums. Theyll open up a new instrument or recordchop up a sample and just start playing around freestyling on their keyboardpads until they play something that catches their ear. Once they have a good idea, theyll record it into their DAW and build the rest of the track up after that. Some will move to drums, others will put in a bass line before going to percussion. Sometimes youll want to build up the melodyaccompaniment sections before you do the drums at all. Again, its all about what works for you. Back to Top. How to Make a Full Song. So if youre trying to be a legit music producer, you should know how to make full songs, not just beats. You should be able to work with an artist from start to finish, handling each step of the process. Once youve got a full beat made or a mostly full beat made you can move on to the vocal performance. What you should do is export your beat from your beat maker as a WAV file better yet, export each instrument separately so you have more control later on in the process. Set up your microphone, connect it to your audio interface and open up your DAW. When youre in your DAW youll be adding in a bunch of blank audio tracks. These tracks are where youll Import your finished beat. Record the vocals of the performer. Its usually a good idea to record multiple takes and comp them together. Comping is basically taking the best parts from several different recording takes and splicing them together to form one perfect vocal take. Some people start by recording the chorus of the song first, and placing it in the proper section of the beat. Then theyll come back around and record the verses after. Others record in the opposite order. Theres no right or wrong way. Once youre done with that you can get the vocalist to come back in with some harmonies, some adlibs and other unique vocal elements that make the song pop. Back to Top. Getting That Industry Sound. Remember how we said at the beginning of this article how your beats would suck at first Well, sometimes even when your ideas are really solid the beat still sounds like shit. If you compare your beats and songs to the stuff you hear on the radio, its really easy to get depressed. How does every song on the radio sound perfect, loud, bright clear and amazing While your sound flat, lifeless and dull Two words Mixing and Mastering. Once youve got everything arranged instruments and vocals if applicable and the beat or instrumental you made sounds like a full length song, its time to mix and master your beats. Whats Mixing and Mastering in Song Making. Mixing and mastering is a complex thing it takes years of education and experience to do right. The people that do mixing and mastering are called audio engineers. Heroic Condensed Heavy Font here. They adjust volume levels, gain and panning i. They also add audio effects like reverb and echos to make everything sound less flat and more alive. Once you become a more advanced producer and you know how to make beats properly, you can probably handle most of the mixing yourself. But mastering should still be left to an engineer especially if you want radio play. Mastering is the last step in the music making process that makes sure everything is absolutely perfect. Thats why its often done by a Mastering Engineer. But this is the secret sauce that makes all your favorite songs sound so damn good. Back to Top. Save. Save. Save. Save.