Make Beats on Your Computer

By: Steve Wells | Posted: 10th March 2009

If you want to make beats on your computer, but don't know where to start, this is the right article for you. The good news is that since there are good computer programs on the market, you don't a professional studio to make beats. The "bad" news is that you still have to learn how to do it.

So let's start with the basics: As you may know a beat consists of drums, bass, samples and instruments (synthesized or real). As the drums are the most important part, I will concentrate on this part. You can isolate a drum from a break beat. Choose a sample and take the kick, snare and hi-hat. Keep in mind: the best to take are those that are most isolated as there is only little background noise.

Load the drum samples in a music sequencer like Sonic Producer. Inside, replace the default drum kit with your own drums. Now you need a pattern for your song (for example consisting of three drum patterns like intro, main and bridge).

Next, choose the tempo: something between 90 and 100 is common for hip hop tracks. For the intro, try to keep it simple (for example use only kick and snare). Choose your main drum pattern and the bridge drum pattern. Now the basic layout is finished.

Final tip: layer your beat! For more information on how to make beats on your computer, take a look at this article:

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