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quoc.ta
New member
I can use the program FL Studio. I know the steps to produce a rap beat, but I don't know the principals to make a melody and drum sound and so on. What do I need to learn first of all?
kcearl
I see deaf people
The best way to learn how songs are structured is to deconstruct some of the songs that you like...
even if its just writing down when the kick comes in...then the hats then bass etc..then try to replicate this with a track of your own..
Although i dont make rap but i almost always find my self working on the beat first which is likely the same..FL has a great sequencer for this..I generally work out the busiest 16 bars of my song, drums, bass, melody, samples, then start mapping it out into a whole song
writing things down is a great way to remember what your doing in the beginning..you known like 8 bars hi hat intro..8 bars kick comes in..first 16 bar bass part going into the chorus etc etc
get this understanding at the beginning and it will be a foundation for all your work..but id say deconstructing your favourite tunes is invaluable at the beginning especially if you dont have a background in music
Youtube is your friend
even if its just writing down when the kick comes in...then the hats then bass etc..then try to replicate this with a track of your own..
Although i dont make rap but i almost always find my self working on the beat first which is likely the same..FL has a great sequencer for this..I generally work out the busiest 16 bars of my song, drums, bass, melody, samples, then start mapping it out into a whole song
writing things down is a great way to remember what your doing in the beginning..you known like 8 bars hi hat intro..8 bars kick comes in..first 16 bar bass part going into the chorus etc etc
get this understanding at the beginning and it will be a foundation for all your work..but id say deconstructing your favourite tunes is invaluable at the beginning especially if you dont have a background in music
Youtube is your friend
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Manslick
Road
Do this ^^^^^^^^^^^
Get you one of those keyboard trigger devices that I see a lot of people use for drums.
Then get your groove on with your best funk face and get into the moment. Let your whole body become a mass of gyrating funk, punk and rap. Then transfer that feeling to the machine.
As for melody, well what I hear in rap is pretty simple and a lot of it sounds like a lullaby or something a kid would sing.
So whatever your musical skills are, use them to put that down.
A song has to have some kind of focus, an idea, a concept. That is the nut you have to crack.
When you find that, your job is to interpret that idea into musical form. Stay in the moment.
Your OP is so terse, we could go on forever so a little background would help.
Get you one of those keyboard trigger devices that I see a lot of people use for drums.
Then get your groove on with your best funk face and get into the moment. Let your whole body become a mass of gyrating funk, punk and rap. Then transfer that feeling to the machine.
As for melody, well what I hear in rap is pretty simple and a lot of it sounds like a lullaby or something a kid would sing.
So whatever your musical skills are, use them to put that down.
A song has to have some kind of focus, an idea, a concept. That is the nut you have to crack.
When you find that, your job is to interpret that idea into musical form. Stay in the moment.
Your OP is so terse, we could go on forever so a little background would help.