| Want to make beats on your computer but do not | | | | noise. |
| know where to start? Well, it is not difficult these | | | | Now load the drum samples in a music sequencer. |
| days, thanks to the technological advancement and | | | | What you are going to do next is to replace the |
| you definitely need not be a professional or to have | | | | drum kit with your own drum. There are 1000's of |
| a studio to make music beats. | | | | drum samples in a good beat maker and sequencer |
| Time has change and so is beat making. It is now | | | | like Sonic Producer. When you are done, you now |
| possible for anyone even a complete newbie that | | | | need to make the pattern for your song. You can |
| know nothing about beat making to make great | | | | spice up your beat by adding other music elements |
| music beats (hip hop beats, rap beats, techno beats | | | | like percussion, bass guitars, electricbass, piano etc. |
| etc.) right from their computer. | | | | Ok, we are almost done here. Now, choose your |
| All right, let's get to the basic on how to make beats | | | | tempo. Depending on the music genre that you want |
| on your computer. We all know that a beat consists | | | | to make. For hip hop, something like 90 to 100 is |
| of bass, drums, samples and instruments (real or | | | | common but you can definitely try out new things as |
| synthesized). The drum being the most important | | | | long as it sounds good. The intro should be simple. I |
| element of a beat can be isolated from a break beat. | | | | like to use simple kick and snare as the intro. Now |
| Next, choose a sample and take the snare, kick and | | | | select your main drum pattern and another one as |
| the hi-hat. | | | | your bridge drum pattern. That's it. The basic layout |
| Tips: Choose those with the least of background | | | | is complete. |