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Panning is one of the most important aspects in the makeup of your beats “stereo image”. A stereo image basically has two perspectives, left to right and front to back. Panning knobs control the left and right axis of your sounds. Volume, reverb, delay, filtering and ambiance create the front and back effect.

Imagine yourself sitting in the front row, watching the live performance of your beat. Where is your drummer? Where is your keyboard player? How about your violins? All these things are very important when creating your “stereo image”. Continue reading »

Scott Spencer Storch (born December 16 or December 15, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American Jewish entertainment mogul, hip-hop record producer, arranger and keyboardist. He plays the piano, clavinet, violin, bagpipes and he is also an avid horse back rider.

After moving to Cherry Hill, New Jersey where he became the keyboard player for the Philadelphia hip-hop band The Roots, he played keyboards for other Philly artists including Schoolly D and G. Love.

Storch began experimenting with his own productions by making beats for The Roots. He then left the band and learned more about the art of making beats from Dr. Dre and Timbaland. Storch is now one of the most in-demand hip-hop producers today, working on beats for a wide variety of artists. Unlike many of his contemporaries (Kanye West, Pharrell), Storch rarely uses samples in his beats, preferring to create his own music. Continue reading »

With the help of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) here is closer look at some of my favorite hip hop sub generes.

Bounce Beats:
Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music, taking off in the early 1990s, but dating back to 1980s. It is characterized by call and response party chants and dance call-outs typically sung over the “Triggaman” (from the song “Drag Rap” by the Showboys) and/or “Brown Beat” samples. Nearly every second of the 1986 single “Drag Rap” has made its way into bounce jams: its opening chromatic tics, the immediately identifiable “Drag Rap” sample, the shouting out of “break” (emulated throughout OutKast’s “Stankonia”), the whistling breakdown, the vocoded “drag rap” vocals, and the minimal drum machine verse. Popular bounce artists include Juvenile and Mannie Fresh.

Hyphy Beats:
Hyphy (pronounced HI-FEE) is a style of music and dance primarily associated with the San Francisco Bay Area hip hop culture. Continue reading »

Constructing a Hip Hop Beat Below

(Cool article which I did not write myself but is worth reading)

Credit: Tweak (http://www.tweakheadz.com/hip_hop_beat_construction.htm) - Thanks Tweak!

Just to start… There are two basic parts to a typical hip hop song: The Beat and the Vocals. Each consists of several tracks. While this article focuses on the construction of beats, lets start off with a description of all the elements of a hip hop song so you can see how the beat fits in.

What are Beats? Continue reading »

I thought that it would be useful to talk about the difference between a hip hop beat maker and a hip hop producer. At first glance they may appear to be very similar but then once you get just underneath the surface you realize they are different.

A hip hop beat maker is obviously a person who makes instrumentals, and hip hop music but a producer takes the job to the next level. A producer makes it his duty to work with the artists and to make sure that they are getting more than just a beat. A hip hop beat makers job stops after he is done making his music. Hip hop producers have the difficult job in communicating with rappers, recording rappers, and dealing with all things that come up when working with rap artists.

I took my thoughts to the hip hop forums on soundclick to see what other hip hop producers and beat makers had to say about this. Continue reading »

Traditionally, or back in the early days of hip hop, hip hop music producers and beat smiths sold Hip hop instrumentals just to make ends meat. But today, you have producers such as The Neptunes, whom sold Rapper Nas a single Hip Hop instrumental for $1,000,000 dollars. How did this happen? How can rappers afford to pay so much for a single instrumental track?

Unfortunately not everybody can sell Hip hop instrumentals for as much as the Neptunes. Selling Hip hop instrumentals at low prices like $100 dollars is the harsh reality for many up and coming hip hop producers. Selling instrumentals online can be even more difficult, it’s not uncommon to see new producers selling decent instrumentals for under $75 dollars. Continue reading »