Choosing the Right Hip Hop Instrumentals for Your Album

Amateur producers blast the volume of their projects. It may entice you. However, when you get to the studio, the high volume will allow little room for your vocals.

Also, when choosing professional quality hip hop instrumentals, it will not be the producer that makes the hit but rather the artist. Your emotional content and character MUST be completely exposed in your performance in order to get your audiences attention. Learn to express yourself accurately. Do not be someone else. In the end, you will thrive because of your uniqueness. You will fall short of your goals if you are the same as everyone else. If you have a choice to pick a silver chain or a silver chain, which one will you choose? But what if the choice is to choose a silver chain or a gold chain? This is how the market works. You should also be choosing your beats the same way. They should be all original.

Don't settle for mixes that are high priced. It probably took minutes to produce the track but you are charged a fortune for it. Look for original hip hop beats only. And don't worry about someone else leasing the same beat.

That's why you choose an underdog producer. Remember, there are thousands of great producers. Only some are greatly exposed resulting in their beats being highly circulated. Find an underdog that suits your style and stick to him/her. You are more likely to get special deals.

WORKING WITH YOUR PRODUCER

Once you have a producer who you are satisfied with, work with the producer for more deals and more instrumentals for your projects. Still shop around. You need to do what you have to do in order to complete your project(s). Just make sure that you take full advantage of your producers deals. Learn to negotiate and be reasonable. Remember, a true hip hop beat takes time when composed from scrap. I've heard of producers saying that you should produce 5 beats a day! I've been producing music for 17 years and 4 years professional. Trust me. At that rate the producer is very likely to be welding pre-made clips that take very little time. I've even heard clips on mainstream artist songs! LAZY! LAZY! LAZY!

BEATS WITH HOOKS

Don't always look for beats with hooks. It does too much work for you. Learn to explore your talent. After all, you are an artist. So be an artist. Learn through discovery and practice. You'll be amazed what you can achieve when you find yourself. Also, it will give you an open door to find someone who may be gifted in singing if you simply do not possess the skills. You might even have a friend who can do it.

IN CLOSING

Thank you for reading this information. I want to be able to help artists who need direction. I hope that this has helped you in some way. Good luck on your journey to becoming the next hot artist!

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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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My Favorite Rap Instrumentals

My favorite rap instrumentals are from the era of 1990-2003. This is when Dr. Dre, Outkast, and Jay-Z were all coming out with their best music. In this article I'm going to talk a little bit about some of my favorite rap instrumentals from this time period.

One of my favorite instrumentals recently has got to be Outkast Bombs Over Baghdad. I have always thought that this was a great record but it isn't until recently that I have really come to realize how innovative and just plain awesome it really is. Everything from the fact that it is at a ridiculously fast 180 beats per minute tempo and then the crazy use of synthesizer's, electric guitar, and gospel choir. You can always count on Outkast to do something different and funky. They took a variety of different influences that had really never been fused together before; Soul, Funk, Jungle and Hip Hop. Unfortunately that record never really charted very well, it only reached #69 on the Billboard chart. It was however very critically acclaimed and was named number #21 song of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine. It's interesting that this record wasn't that commercially successful. I was about 14 when the song came out and wasn't really following music like I am now. I don't think I even new what the Billboard charts were. I thought that people had better taste in Music back in 2000 but it turns out Outkast just put out incredible music that stood the test of time.

Another instrumental that has always been one of my favorites is "Feelin It" by Jay-Z it was produced by Ski and uses a sample by jazz artist Ahmad Jamal from the record "Pastures". What I like most about this record is the overall vibe. The piano mixed with the horns put together perfectly with the boom bap drums creates a perfect sound bed for Jay-Z 's smoothed out flow. The song is basically perfect so thank god it didn't go to Camp Lo like the producer ski had initially wanted.

Another one of my favorite beats is "Nothin but a 'G' Thang" by Dr. Dre. This is one of those classic records that will be around for another 30 years. It didn't quite make it to number one on the billboard chart but was otherwise a huge hit when it was released. It takes a sample from Leon Haywood's "I want to do something Freaky to You" What is cool about how Dr. Dre freaked the sample is the addition of the lead synthesizer that is called a Moog. He used the sine wave on the Moog synthesizer to create the lead melody that you recognize as the melody of this song. That is what is constantly getting stuck in your head. This record is the song that ushered in the west coast in rap music. You can hear how deep the kick hits, its one of those songs that you play in your car with your windows down and make you feel like you are the coolest person in the world.

This article was written by Jake Poore, the owner of the website rap instrumentals a website dedicated to providing artists with rap beats and free instrumentals. All beats and instrumentals currently produced by Ages.

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