studio day1

Hi for all of you who don't know me my name is ben ratchford i own buybestbeats.com today i'm in the studio working on a bit of music for someone who gets bullied because he wants to be a rapper out of the 3 tracks i'm making him for free.

this will take you thought what i do in the studio on day one of production

today i'm making a hip-hop beat for the person i mentioned above ok to start of with i'm going to start a blank project

this is is what logic looks like when your first open it up. all i have done is added 6 software instruments into my project i'm now going to drop the tempo down to around 90 bpm

tip

hip-hop is set between 70 to 110 bpm  sometimes quicker but when first making hip-hop beats stick within these guide lines.


so this beat is going to be set at 90 bpm

this i my project it is set at 90 bpm



when making hip-hop i like to start with the drums some people make melodies first then the drums to suit it but i go for the drums first time around

in my drums folder i'm using the kit known as heavy hip-hop drums this will be my kick drum


i'm going to enter this manually using the logic piano roll

with mac there no right click but on logic you can right click a go  create note.






i always start by do a 4 on the floor this means every beat of the bar is going to be a kick drums then i'm going to change it around with my drums i always make them 2 bars in length

i know that my snare is going to hit on the 2 and 4, 6 and 8 in the 2 bars so in insert 2 on logic i have put in 90's hip-hop drums

ones this is done i'm going to go back to to my kick drum and make it into a beat

i have now got in my drums  kick and snare along with a snares clap on insert 3 .

for my liking the kick is not hard engouth so i'm going to go over to the mixer and make them hit harder

by adding some fx into them

the fx i used are

chain eq
fat eq
and compression

i also need to add some hi hats in so i'm going to have open hi hit, closed hi hat, and maybe a bit of a shaker

this is what my drums look like so far i'm a neat freak when it comes to music i like to keep my project tidy

i'm going to make the drums 16 bars long and that is going to be my verse so my song structure will be

8 bars intro
16 bar verse
8 bar hook
16 bar verse
8 bar hook
4 bar outro

tomorrow i'll be adding in the brass, strings and any pianos i want to add.


any question please contact me i'll be happy to answer them also head over to

www.buybestbeats.com
to hear other work and now we able to do a live studio session for $20 a session that you can book no other music producer can do that.


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ben