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How To Get Started Making Beats

If you want to make your own beats here are some great tips to start out.  For everyone out there who's just beginning to make beats it can be kind of frustrating. If you want to make great sounding beats but you don't have any experience there is good news. Though it's not impossible it just takes patience and practice. Before you know it you'll be making your own beats and feeling great about it.

 

The first thing you need to do is to pick a style. Don't jump around from different style different style, just pick one type of song you'd like to make and stick with it. You can always make different styles of songs later, and you should. Making beats is all about coming up with better and  different songs. A great place to start is listening to a couple of songs from when your favorite beat makers or rappers. Listen to a few of their  tracks and figure out what is the make some special and why you like them so much. Don't completely ripped them off though, just use them as a guide. You need a place to start and modeling others is a great place. 

 

After listening to a couple of songs you should  start getting a couple of good ideas. At this point just program something in to your beat maker. Get  a drum beat or melody or anything programmed in to your software and just stick with that for a bit. One you have your basic idea down you have something to work with. It doesn't matter what you put dow, it can just be a snare or be bass line or a small keyboard part. Everything will work off of having a first idea laid down.  You can always throw away parts or start over. if you have a drum beat down, add a simple melody to it. If you have a melody put a drum beat to that. The point is to  give yourself a little foundation to work with.

 

After you have the basics down it's time to get creative. Just try everything at this point and don't be afraid if anything sounds stupid. Try anything because you never know what's going to sound good. What you think is going to sound ridiculous might be amazing. It's is all about experimentation at this point and the farther along you'll get the more the song will start to take on a life of its own. 

 

You'll soon begin to understand how you want to start your song out, how you want to end it, if you want to bridges,  choruses, or if you just want to keeo the same funky beat going throughout the whole thing. You can always edit, subtract, and add parts or make your beat much different once you have something to work with.

 

 

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 And if you get stuck making beats just use my magic formula: get up and start dancing around like a fool! It's almost impossible not to hear a great song in your head while you're moving your body around like crazy. 

Learn how to make you own beats online and what the best software to use is!

 

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