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Without persistence or talent, many wannabe rappers give up the ghost early. But having both persistence and talent will go a long way in helping them succeed. It is a well known fact that many of today’s rap stars originated from city ghettos but succeeded because they persevered at developing their skills in light of the social adversity they faced. Having the right attitude when it comes to rap music will allow you to succeed in no time at all. If you have the will to succeed, on top of a smattering of consistency and persistence, you will go far in the rapping world.

There happen to be three main sounds you have to learn before making hip hop beats. The drum kick, the hi hat and the snare drum are all these sounds. While the drum kick sound is a forceful one, adding vibrations to it can make it bolder. This sound is known as a B sound. Hi hat sound is made from TS sound, while snare sounds come from PSH sound.

While practising using these sounds in sequence is the best way to go. The best sequence to start with is the B, TS, PSH and TS sequence. Because practise makes perfect, keep at it until the sounds are ingrained into your mind. Only when you have become proficient with this sequence should you try other combinations. And before you know it you will be proficient enough to be able to produce your own rap music. NB! Check out this website: crunk beats to find out more information about rap and hip hop

As long as you remember that the rhythm is the most important thing you can master, you will be well on your way. Composing entire songs will become easy after this. You will obviously make mistakes along the way, but don’t worry too much. Practise, practise and practise even more and at the end of the day you will become master of your own destiny. To conclude I would like to add that making beats is not so easy as most of us think.

Creating your own Drum Backing Tracks is now easier than ever before due to rapid advances in the compuetr world. Even just a few years ago you needed very expensive programs, hardware, recording equipment and probably a music degree!

Now things are a lot more accessible.

If you can work a computer with enough skill to find this article then you can sure use that to create some of your own drum beats and instrumentals online. Once you are inside and using a good quality drum program, a few easy steps can create some excellent professional results in a short time.

Take a look a how simple it can be:

• View your tracks timeline where you can place each beat or drum sound.
• One at a time, drag and drop your desired beat to the appropriate place on the timeline.
• Add other instruments if you wish like piano, guitar, chimes, bass guitar.
• Playback, move drums, edit unti you reach the final version.
• Easily record to MP3 or CD.
• Your beats are complete.

In fact the process to make drum backing tracks can be so simple with a few sites that people think the quality will be reduced. Forget it. Technology has and still is growing exponentially, making sound reproduction practically as perfect as the real thing. Locking all of this technology into a web program for anyone to use is now the norm, with many professionals using some of the best web facilities around that are available to you and me too.

There are several beat creation programs that I recommend due to the live recording ability. This is where you get a visible, vertical line that travels along your timeline like a metronome.

You then click your mouse when you wish the selected beat to sound and where you want it to be placed as you listen to the ‘click track’. This works great for those beats and backing tracks where you know how it should go but you are unsure of what beat it comes on. Great if you can ‘feel’ what you want but can’t explain it or compose it.

You are literally playing it into the software as if playing the instrument.

To make quality drum backing tracks is easy and anyone can create professional quality music. But those that work and develop the most will be the one’s producing the hottest and freshest material.

There are a great many beat programs out there. Some have been established for many years and applied in professional recordings. Others are recent and let you learn and make your personalised music online without needing to install anything.

Before you check out any beat programs first think about how you learn best and how you can progress to your goal as easily and rapidly as possible.

What type of learner are you? Do you learn well from studying books and manuals? Are you more visual and pick things up from following video recordings? Do you learn better from simply getting in there and doing it?

How much time, exertion and expense can you put into becoming a proficient beat maker?

Your options are reasonably wide and vary from intricate high end music production packages to free open source programs, there are also web browser based beat programs at varying costs.

Free vs. Paid

Everyone wants something for nothing and free is always nice – but like anything that’s free there’s always a catch. With music production computer software the free ones come in 2 flavours – time restricted demonstration versions of paid products or open source and shareware.

If you are a skilled computer user and resourceful when it comes to finding information the open source shareware route might just be for you. You’ll need to be able to install and teach yourself the software – and if it goes wrong there’s no support. Also – and this is the worst downfall with free beat programs – you don’t get any samples to use.

The benefits of paid products are that the good ones will include good (video) training, royalty-free samples you can use to create tracks that you can sell commercially, good support and if you’re fortunate a money back guarantee.

Ultimately your journey from beginner to seasoned beat maker can be drawn-out or compact.

So how much is good value?

Now depending on what level of dedication you’re prepared to put in you can spend a lot or a little at the offset of your journey. High end software programs cost hundreds of dollars whereas some starter software packages cost fewer than 30 bucks.

What’s right for your budget and time depends on your personalized situation. A starter package will get you up and functioning quick but might lack some of the more subtle and complex characteristics of pro standard beat programs. High end bundles take longer to learn, are complicated to install but you’re setting a solid cornerstone.

Only you can decide what will best accommodate your specific needs. Remember your aim of learning how to make beats rapidly and easily and keep that in mind when looking at beat programs. Ask yourself questions like “do I require these extra features?” and “am I just paying extra for the brand here?” Keep your mind on your goal and you’ll be listening to your own tracks on the radio and in the clubs in no time.

Peter Webber reviews beat making software software on his dot-funk site which is targeted at helping the beginner musician develop the necessary skills  to make and produce their own music using a computer and the internet.