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Im a soundengeneer for 10+ years and have one year with musicproduction education couple of year back.. I'm usually making electronic and such.. Recently I started working on my own music much more.. Tho i got a good feel for what works and what dont, i'll never be an expert. A friend that im produzing music for is in the genre "rap&hiphop". My question is simple, but complex..
What are the consept/ground rules of produzing this kind of music, and are there in depth material for people like me to read on the net? Are there standard buildups in the progression of the songs?

much appriciated if someone with background in producing this genre answers

Cheers from
a steinberg user..

check out: http://www.tweakheadz.com/hip_hop_beat_construction.htm

good luck! :wink:

I have been a musician for almost 20 years now and hiphop or making beats is kind of a new thing for me. Aside from what software to use and what kind of files to deal with (if your using any samples) I always took the approach that I would just make music the way I make it and other than some basic guide lines I would invent my own style. I think after a while everyone has their own little bag of tricks but my advice would be to do the world a favor and let the gift of music just happen the way it happens through you. we need more individuality with music. Feel free to check out my stuff and if you'd like to talk to me let me know if I can help. I'm no genius when it comes to making beats i just do what I hear in my heart. hope this helps

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peace and laughter

Brian

I agree with you Brian it is important to develop youre own style, but I think you have to learn the "rules" in order to break them :wink:

A very simple guideline for making a rather old school hip hop song would be:
- Drum loop and bass line always the most audible amongst all the sample tracks, and with no panning.
- Drum loop should be a bit wet and re-verbed.
- Overall sound should be rather bassy.
- Use short samples from different sources to make an original sound scape (piano songs, classical orchestral music, jazz, etc.), panned to sides to let the drums enough space to voice themselves.
- Add a hundred of stray samples here and there throughout the song to make it more interesting.
- Interrupt the drum loop frequently.
- Rap strongly normalized, with no panning, may have a little echo effect.
- At the start of the song, start with a short build-up, adding more and more samples, then unleash your drum loop and rap. After this, just adjust your beat to the actual rap track.
- Remember, the MC is the person number one, always adapt to his skills and likes. You're just helping him to express himself.

You may use some of my drum loops here at freesound, if you like.

Before asking for a "magic formula" in a forum like this I suggest to trust your own ears...
Start with listening to a lot of music first.
Look for the works of producers like Marley Marl, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Madlip as the beginning.

That should get you a glimps of what it is all about - ohh and DONT listen to the radio
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