Rap beat production is the creation of hip hop music. Modern hip hop production utilizes samplers, sequencers, drum machines, synthesizers, turntables, and live instrumentation. The music is best classified as having a highly rhythmic, drum beat, whether by itself, dubbed over sampled music, or played along with live instruments. Many producers try to get the attention of listeners with melodic rap beats and instrumentals.
There are many different types of genres in rap music like Dirty South, Vibe, West Coast and Underground. The genre rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.
Vibe (alternative jazzy hip hop) rhythms have been typically those of hip hop rather than jazz and uses repetitive phrases of jazz instrumentation, such as trumpet and double bass.
Hardcore is characterized by its minimalistic beats, gritty drum sounds that are often sampled from vinyl, occasional urban jazz and horn samples, and haunting string and piano melodies.
There are a lot of online music stores where rappers can buy instrumental beats for rap music. Those sites are selling beats with exclusive rights, but are they really royalty free? Most of the time beats on online music stores are from producers who have a lot of experience, so many instrumentals are of high quality. Professional beat producers can upload their beats to many sites, this is the reason why selling and buying beats online can be very easy.
Exclusive beats can be used for new works that will be performed live or submitted to radio stations. The producer will get 50% of the writers credit for the completed song. The creation and copyrights remain in the possession of the producer who created the beat. So exclusive beats are not royalty free.
The non-exclusive beats offered on most sites are not for commercial use, but customers can use them to promote themselves. Artist want a good sounding demo, so they usually want it right the first time when they sell themselves to a recording company. Customers can download a beat, record their vocals, send it to the recording company's and they are done. If they are lucky, the recording becomes a hit. Then customers can purchase the exclusive rights for that beat and it will be removed from the site. Only that customer and no one else have the right to use the beat for commercials or radio.
Marcel finished the school for audio engineering (SAE) in 2005 and has a lot of experience as a musician. He is the owner of HotBeatStore.com and MoSound Productions.
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