What Type of Input Is Best for Making Beats, Keyboard or Drum Pads?

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With the proliferation of so many amazing technologies with which to create drum samples, the aspiring and sometimes even the professional musician may be at a loss to decide which is the best method for their music to use. If, like many musicians you are operating on a tight budget and already happen to own a keyboard, then the question of spending more for new gear may be prohibitive. While there are exciting new less expensive models of devices that create awesome drum samples, if your existing keyboard already does the job and you are happy enough for now with its results, then perhaps you can hold off for a while and be able to eat instead.

What Type of Input Is Best for Making Beats, Keyboard or Drum Pads?

A lot may also depend of the type of musician that you are. Someone who is a total keyboard player with a limited background in percussion may be more comfortable with the familiar feel of the keys. A musician that may be more percussively oriented, like a person that started out playing the drums and has moved on to playing keyboards, might therefore be more at home creating their drum samples using real drum sticks and pads that deliver a nice feeling of impact with at least some modest rebounding capability.

It may be hard to duplicate the primal feel of pounding on a surface with a stick as opposed to pressing on plastic with your fingers. Though if you are more of a keyboard oriented musician then that still may be best for your strengths. A well financed musician can avoid this quandary by investing in both a keyboard that will perform the task as well as the drum pad sequencers.

Why not have dueling devices and let them play off of each other? Try several takes on your drum track using each method and then compare or even combine the results. Splice and dice with a few measures dedicated to each device. Most of all, remember to be creative. Don't procure all this great new technology and play the same tired old riffs. Resolve to move out of the humdrum and into the world of the elite beat makers. Find your groove by tapping your inner creativity, not retreading others' work. Of course, retreading, or interpreting someone's music is a creative act in itself. The Beatles jammed on a Buddy Holly tune for hours and wound up with 'Love Me Do'. Going beyond this mixed message to quote that ultimate of writers Erich Von Daniken, from his book 'Proof', 'Duo quum idem faciunt non est idem-When two people do the same thing, it is not the same.'

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Hip Hop Beats Instrumentals - 3 Techniques on Making Instrumentals With Hip Hop Beats Creative

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Hip hop beats as instrumentals for you or someone else to rap over are some of the most fun aspects of being into hip hop music. Rather then relying on a group of musicians to all get along together and write a song, the beats producer is a one man band of sorts...drawing up on his inspiration to convey a musical message. Such a message can be difficult to convey and get out of your mind. Oftentimes, the end result will sound absolutely nothing like what you were hearing in your mind. Sometimes this is okay, if you are comfortable with working with what you have... if you know how to turn lemons into lemonade so to speak.

Hip Hop Beats Instrumentals - 3 Techniques on Making Instrumentals With Hip Hop Beats Creative

But for most noobs trying to craft the perfect hip hop beats instrumentals, getting the ideas out of your head can be a frustrating task. You spend all day with these melodies and beats churning around in your overactive mind, but when it comes down to laying down these beats into your favorite software...you either come up blank or the end result is nothing you'd want to let even your best friend listen to. Been there, done that.

Here are some simple tips that will let you get your phat beats out of your head:

• Record Your Voice: Use a tape recorder or a digital recorder, or even your cell phone. Get out of your project studio and go do some chores around the house or take a walk around the block. Any melody that pops into your head, record it! Then when you're back in your studio, try to translate your melodies and beats into your software. You'd be surprised the awesome stuff that come come out of your head when you're doing something other than hitting MPC pads, or clicking on a piano roll or step sequencer!
• Coffee or and caffeinated beverage: Most people say drugs are a no no when it comes to music or life in general...but I say if we could make an exception it would be caffeine. Caffeine can make the most wildest ideas flow.
• Hang out with other beat makers: Few things are better to get ideas for hip hop beats and instrumentals than hanging out with other beat makers. Watch them work and learn from them. There's so many thing that you could be doing to limit your creativity that you could correct if you could just watch someone who is doing it the right way.

These are just some of the ideas. As you keep making beats, you will learn how to learn. Sounds funny but it is very true.

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