The Joys of Creating Hip Hop Beats

Posted by Faizan Shiwani / at 5:10 AM / /

Have you been to a dance and been banging to the beat, waving your arms and bobbing you head? Well imagine that times five. That is what the DJ feels. An even better feeling is when you are the creator of those hip hop beats.

Creating hip hop beats can be a very involved process. The typical creator/producer needs to know the different techniques required. Some of these techniques are how to construct the beat, which instruments to start with, equipment information, how to do the actual recording, how to get crisp clean sounds, and not the least-adding the voice or lyrics. Even a little music theory would help. .

With the use of online system the skills you need to know has become a lot easier. The online system makes it easier for the beginning creator. Learning the system takes a little time but the beginner can start creating hip hop beats right away. Years ago the beginner had to buy or create their own library of sounds. Then they had to learn all the intricacies of what ever quality equipment they could afford. Now with the online system a library of sounds is provided for the beginner to start using creating hip hop beats right away.

The experienced creator/producer will also get benefits to their career with online systems. Although they will already have a lot of experience with the techniques mentioned before, they will be so much faster with online tools which are now available. Problems in the past with trying to reduce the interference between different equipment and instruments are minimized. It is easier and quicker to create lots of quality hip hop beats.

As the experienced creator will already know about the problems of having their own library of sound, they will appreciate some of the features available online. The experienced creator will have access to a library of sounds which in some programs is updated as often as every week. The experienced creator also has their own library which they can add and use in their creations.

Do you have old 45s and 33s that you would like to use to create the older feel in your new creation? This was done by hand by talented creators who could pin point just the right spot on a record to get just the right sound. Then hopefully get it recorded to add to their library. This is possible online now and can give the creator quicker and cleaner access to just the right spot on the record or CD.

The experienced creator also wants to be able to easily weave sounds through out their music to make it even more unique and complex.In the past creators who created their own hip hop beats had to organize the sounds into 8 beat units or 16 beat units. Then they had to set up the units to trigger at different times. This required a fine ear and hand. Now part of the creator's tools is being able to see their creation and of course still hear it. As you create hip hop beats, you will be able to see and hear the exact beats which get everyone up and out of their seats.