Hip Hop Beats and Instrumentals - Is It Better To Make Them Yourself?

At first glance it might seem that being a producer/rapper might be better because you could just save money on beats or make whatever type of beat you want for yourself BUT that's only one side of the coin.

You might think it's better to have an extra slash after your name (Rapper/Producer) but before you take on a whole new craft here's a few things you might want to think about. For starters, do you even know what it takes to make a whole beat. Well let me supply you with a list, that you might be interested in:

First you would have to find beat making software, buy a midi controller and download some good sounds.

Then you would have to learn how to use the beat making software, how to program drums, create melodies, create chord progressions, create bass lines, find out what sounds go together, find good samples, chop samples, layer drums, create new sounds, how different tempo structures work, how to create intros, how to create chorus sections, how to create a bridge, how to arrange a beat, how every instrument should sound when creating melodies with the instrument and this is just some of what you'll have to learn.

So you could see that if you wanted to go down the path of producer/rapper, you would be wasting your time and just putting your dreams of rap stardom on hold. The little time you already spend on being a rapper would be split in half and then instead of ending up a great rapper your destined to be an average rapper with below average beats.

Look at it this way, it's been discovered that it takes an average person about 3,000 hours of study and practice to become a top AMATEUR at their craft. So that would be an hour a day for about 8 years. Also for the same average person to become world-class, it would take them 10,000 hours of study and practice.

So my advice is to pick one thing (like rapping or singing) and MASTER it, then if later on you want to try mastering something new (producing) THEN you can do that. But for now focus on perfecting at what your good at. I would suggest paying someone else to do what your not so good at. This lets you focus on doing your thing.

So if you don't want to do all the work that I mentioned earlier and want to deal with someone who's already perfected how to do all that, then I suggest checking out these hip hop beats and instrumentals at HowToBuyBeats.com that you can use for your album.

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Want to Record Better Music - Wear a Magnet On Your Head

The other day, I was talking to a musician down at the local Starbucks, and he said that he had signed with a "B" rated music label, and he would be producing his first CD and he would go into the recording studio within a few weeks. I asked if he was nervous, and he said a little bit, but he was using a trick that he learned from a friend of his. Apparently there have been research studies from major neurologists at a top university that when the skull is in a magnetic fields the blood in the brain flows better.

He explained it to me this way; the magnetic field helps align the molecules allowing the blood to flow faster, which simulates a blood thinning event. Therefore you get better blood flow when your head is in a magnetic field, and it temporarily gives you clearer thinking than you'd normally expect. I asked him if he thought it worked or if he'd tried it yet. Indeed he told me he had, but he only noted a slight difference, but he didn't feel lightheaded or anything like that.

He did admit that he was able to give perfect timing while recording with the magnet which he was wearing underneath the headset. As the coordinator for a think tank which happens to operate online this does not surprise me, but it is interesting nevertheless for those in the music industry who want to get a slight boost in brain capacity during recordings. Apparently this trick works, and if you'd ever tried it in the past now you know why.

There was a recent research paper online which mentioned the potential use for magnetic fields in one of the neurology journals, suggesting that it had potential benefits for stroke victims or those with major blood clots and heart/blood flow challenges. Who knows maybe musicians and the music industry can learn something from academic medical researchers after all, and those musicians will be able to perform better without using illegal drugs to do it?

Do I personally recommend using this method when recording? I'm not sure I would take the risk, because I don't know enough about it, but it appears to me that if you were to check with a researcher or neurologist they might explain the process a little better to you, and that you could make up your own mind based on the information they give. The only reason I mentioned it in this article is because I thought it was fascinating, and it is something I'd never heard before. Indeed I hope you will please consider this, research it on your own, and come to your own conclusion.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,500 articles by mid-day on June 23, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..

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