subject: Here is How to Produce Hip Hop Beats With Radio Quality [print this page] Here is How to Produce Hip Hop Beats With Radio Quality
Weather you like him or not, a 17 year old named Soulja Boy accomplished creating a platinum radio record using the exact same techniques I am going to discuss and a very inexpensive program on his home computer. I go into more details about which programs work even better and have more professional sounds than the one he used on my web page.
You first need one of these programs because they come with the exact same sounds, drums, synthesizers and keyboard sounds that are being used in songs that you can currently hear on the radio. I would start off beginning with a cool instrument rhythm or melody. This will be the main melody of the song. Coming up with the main melody of the song first, before you add a drum pattern, is a plus because professional producers understand that this is the melody that will sell the song to the listener first and then you can build the track around this melody. Next I would find a cool or weird sound effect that you can throw in with the main melody but that is almost subliminal. The reason you want to do this is because its an age old secret that for some reason people love to discover new things in the music that they like the more times they hear it. People want to be able to catch on to something new and be able to point it out to their friends. I would also listen to your favorite rapper's beat several times and each time writing exactly how many instruments and which separate instruments you hear. You should also listen for the placement of the base in relation to the drum patterns. A good rap beat is comprised of a simple drum pattern, a slightly offset bass pattern behind it, high hats that compliment the main rhythm of the beat and sometimes a second and a third background rhythm along with sound effects that are very subliminal.
Don't forget to get your record mixed and mastered. Tell the mastering engineer that you want your record mastered loud as most hip hop records that you hear on the radio are mastered completely different from all other genres.
I hope this points you in the right direction and if you need more in depth details on production mixing and mastering directions I do go farther on my page here.
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