Make Your Own Beats

Looper pedals are cool. They allow you to build backing tracks for yourself to solo over, or even harmonize with yourself without the need for backing vocalists. Artists like Riley Armstrong, Jacob Moon, Andrew Bird, and many others popularized looping in their live performance, and it has fast become a go-to tool for independent and […]

So, you just heard a killer beat you want to use in a song. There are plenty of hit songs based on samples. Just think of Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love”, Rihanna’s “Work”, Eminem’s “My Name Is”, or Kanye West’s “New Slaves”. Ultimately, we’re all influenced and inspired by the music we’ve heard, and since there […]

In the rap and hip-hop world, it’s not unusual for producers and artists to take samples from other recorded works and incorporate them into their beats. This happens in the DJ and EDM world too. You might have other reasons for wanting to use a sample in your song, such as the desire to pay […]

It’s one thing to produce music in your spare time – quite another to be doing it full time and get paid for all your work. But we all must start at zero. If you don’t already have a basic home studio setup, and you aren’t practicing on it daily, that would be an excellent […]

Want to buy a Chewie Monsta Looper, or the latest mo a Chewie 2 like Ed Sheeran showed off at the Grammys? Well while this is a custom made piece of equipment which can’t be bought, the good news is his Chewie 2 is basically used to control a Roland FC300 MIDI Controller, which can […]

It’s hard to admit we don’t understand something, especially something that everyone else seems to understand. If you’ve ever played live or tried to record and your own music, you’ve probably come across an effect known as compression. Compression is literally everywhere. Compression and EQ are two of the most important plug-ins or effects […]

Recently, we’ve been covering some of the software and hardware needed to start recording and mi your own demos and songs. If you’ve been ing into home recordings, you may have already started to fiddle around with plug-ins. Plug-ins are everyone’s favorite/least favorite piece of gear. On the one hand, buying nice plug-ins is both […]

If you’re loing to start making music, there are generally two schools of thought. In the hip-hop and rap world, in particular, there are artists who buy beats from producers and artists who make their own beats. While members of each camp might be quite convinced that they’re thinking is the right way to do […]

Want to learn how to create a Drake-type beat? If you like ‘Started from the Bottom’ which was produced by Mike Zombie and Noah Shebib, you’re going to learn a lot from this tutorial! Important Note: This tutorial los how to produce a similar beat for your own learning. You should in no way release […]