When you want to make great hip hop beats there are three ways to do it and three ways to spend your money. However, not all music tools are expensive in fact some are really cheap which means you can find a great hip hop beat makers for pennies on the dollar!
All rappers and hip hop artists have their dreams. Some say they want to be the best producer and make hip hop beats for all the rappers in the world. Or, they want to be the best rapper in the world. It’s okay to have your dreams but some beat makers think they can buy all their dreams. Their thoughts are if they spend a lot of money then they will be a professional. Never think this way – it’s unrealistic.
There are quite a few out there that have spent thousands of dollars only to find out they didn’t have to spend that much to make a great hip hop beat. Why? Because there are tons of hip hop beat makers that are dirt cheap and it doesn’t take a lot to learn how to use them. Never start out with a high end beat maker when you don’t have the knowledge to use one. No doubt you will get the job done providing you are talented and creative, but this is a tough path to walk because in the beginning you don’t need plug ins.
Now on the other side, if you only want to do lyrics. meaning you are more of the rapper type or lyricist than a producer, then get a few samples to get you started. There are dirt cheap beat maker software programs that have a huge catalog of samples that you can lay your lyrics over. These beats are called royalty free and definitely worth looking into. You will save a lot of time and the beats are pre-mixed, so you won’t need to mix sounds. This will give you the time you need to work on what you love, writing lyrics.
This is the best way to make great hip hop beats because it’s cheap! Plus you can write your own beats using a simple interface with 16-tracks, a drum machine and a piano key set. There’s a marker that goes across the measure to add cymbals, the sneer, bass drums, synthesizer sounds and piano parts. This makes creating hip hop beats really easy. You can export sounds to an mp3 file then run your lyrics through a software recorder.
