| Before you look for the right beat download to | | | | wearin' Slim Shady. While these artists may not seem |
| complete your masterpiece jam, there's one thing | | | | to have anything in common, they all made their |
| that you have to know about what is setting the | | | | break from becoming someone who did two things |
| masters apart from the wannabes in the music biz. | | | | with their songwriting: |
| You've probably had this happen to you at least | | | | · They were their own biggest fans, even |
| once: you hear a song that really gets you jazzed up; | | | | when no one else "got it." |
| I mean something that just cuts right to the heart on | | | | · They picked a style and stayed the course |
| first hearing. So you find out who the artist is and | | | | until they got the attention of the right people. |
| you get inspired and intimated at the same time, as | | | | For Beethoven it was Franz Haydn, for Slim it was |
| you try to come up with something that is of equal | | | | Dr. Dre, but one thing is certain and always will be |
| caliber. You might either download beats off the | | | | when it comes to making it in the music biz: If you |
| Internet or use some that came as sample loops | | | | want to get the attention of those who can help |
| with your beat creation software and make some | | | | you, then you need to be doing something no one |
| minor changes to give them your own signature | | | | else is doing. |
| flavor. | | | | This doesn't mean you have to come up with some |
| However, many other aspiring beat masters and | | | | new genre of music, or that you can't sometimes |
| songwriters are out there following this same pattern | | | | use beat download sites and prerecorded sample |
| and looking to become the next Timberland, Dr Dre | | | | loops. What it does mean is you must stop leaning on |
| or Snoop Dog. What is going to be the difference | | | | these things, and that'll require you to turn off the |
| between you and these other wannabes? If you are | | | | outside noise sometimes and just go with your gut. |
| not sure, you had better find out soon if you want | | | | One thing that Beethoven used to do with his |
| to make it anywhere as a songwriter. | | | | students is lock them in a room for an hour with |
| The first step in this process is making some time to | | | | nothing but a pen and a paper and have them write |
| create ideas which are not based on someone else's | | | | music. While you may not be working on an epic |
| cookie cutter patterns that following the same beat | | | | symphony, this might be good advice to follow being |
| download or sample rehash strategy that everyone | | | | that this dude is dead and people are still raving |
| else is using. | | | | about his tunes. |
| Surely there's no need to reinvent the wheel, but | | | | So before you go looking for a beat download site |
| learning to think out of the box is how almost every | | | | or to repackage a popular jam, turn off the noise on |
| great artist blew things up in the first place. This is | | | | the outside and see what the noise on the inside |
| true from the powder wig ivory ticklers like Bach and | | | | might have to say. Who knows, someday you may |
| Beethoven right down to the grit spittin' starter cap | | | | even be the source of someone else's inspiration. |