Beat makers I’m so garbage but I don’t want to quit

[Solano707]

Keep practicing breh, nothing easy never comes over night.

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Go the Robert Johnson route but instead of blue guitar you’ll be a beast on the MPC

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

OP do you understand basic musical theory or are you kind of fiddling around with a keyboard seeing what works? Also do you understand synthesis or do you rely on presets?

Nothing necessarily wrong with relying on presets at your beginning stage. The technical "production" aspect, including synthesizer programming, mixing and mastering, is a whole thing to delve into in itself that has nothing to do with your ability to write good music.

However you HAVE to understand basic musical theory. You are wasting your time and potential otherwise. To be clear, this doesn't mean learning how to read or write sheet music. Completely unnecessary if you're interested in pop music or most dance music. If you can't tell me what is a key, what is a chord, what is chord progression, what is a scale, what are some common scales, you been doing it wrong. Whenever you conceive a "beat" or melody stuck in your head, do you know how to figure out the key to that little beat you got in your head and then expand it into a full, filling sequence? Most songs start with a simple idea. It might be a little melody in your head. It might be a percussion pattern that inspired you during a bumpy train ride. It may be a bass line. Once you take that simple idea, apply theory to it, and fill it in with the rest of the basic musical elements, you'd be shocked what you come up with. With musical theory making beats is no longer grueling guess work while staring in front a blank canvas, it's becomes more like cooking. You decide the bare minimum ingredients--your lead section, your rhythmic section(s), your bass, your percussion, your key, your scale, your chord progression--you arrange them together. Sometimes you come up with some fire sometimes you lay out something generic. But as long as you get that meat and potatoes "formula" of arranging and writing music whatever you come up with will ultimately sound "presentable" and it will become the most fun and joyous thing in the world whether you plan to ever show off what you're doing or not.

It's the secret to finally making sense to songwriting, freeing yourself of all the guesses and confusion, and making the music you actually want.

Keep in mind most popular music reuses the SAME theory. The SAME chord progressions and ideas. The same shyt over and over, just arranged differently. It's not as much study as you may think. Making pop music is fun and easy. Once you learn theory and can even decipher what your favorite songs are doing theoretically you will kick yourself in the foot and how fun and easy (albeit technical and time consuming) making music is. You will find yourself sitting around for hours just having jam sessions to your own beats. It's awesome.

Close out the DAW for a moment and find a nice crash course on YouTube on basic musical theory. Take some time away from the producing and get this down. You will not regret it young bro! Hit me up if you have ANY questions.

 

[Rozay Oro]

That’s a Different World like Cree Summer

I deserve to do these numbers

 

[Rozay Oro]

Don't quit

Just keep making shyt..even when you don't want to..

What are you using? a DAW? or hardware?

This is important for advice.....

MPC60? MPC X? Fruity Loops? / Beat Thang?

Beat Thang LMAOOOO
HELL NAH
FL 20, Reason Studios 12+
I’ve tried Ableton last year the 90 day demo, shyt is crack! bytch to trnt so I’m buy it soon. FL has the best piano roll but Ableton is so intuitive.
I have an akai mini mpk 3 I believe it’s called.

 

[Savvir]

Give me an exercise or something to get better. I got ideas in my head but executing is so hard.

try recreating other producers' beats that you like...

you'll learn the technique for each element of the beat...

then you can take those techniques and flex them until you start to develop your own flow

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

I know y’all trying to help but y’all giving the woat advice for someone to make beat. fukk all that recreating beats shyt, learning chords and scales, watching documentaries, watching YouTube shyt smh. Just make a fukking beat.

I got 10 other things going on right now. But I’m still about to fukk around on these beats. Sometimes I make a beat in 10 minutes and sometimes Im fukking around for a few hours and don’t even end up saving nothing. But I’m about to post every beat I complete in this thread today. If I get to 3 beats and you don’t post one before I post my third beat, then Mods, deleted this silly ass thread. You just be talking. Make a mothafukking beat. You don’t love this shyt

 

[Living Bait]

Most important thing i would say is go very loose on quantize . . . 32 maybe 64 . . But if you can turn if off you can create your own swing

Keep that shyt on 8 or 16 and wonder why your shyt sounds rigid . .

 

[Living Bait]

Double

 

[Charly Wingate]

 

[I'm Blackman]

nikka stop being scared to make beats. You should be an actor cause you dramatic, but you would be scared to show up to the auditions. You got the confidence of a blind nikka in a maze. nikkas about to be state certified counselors cause they done gave you so much advice on here. I made three beats today cause I love making beats. Obviously you don’t love the shyt cause you talk about it more than you do it. nikka how you got producerphobia? This not a world where the weak and unconfident thrive.

 

[CrushedGroove]

Give me an exercise or something to get better. I got ideas in my head but executing is so hard.

Breh you gotta post something you've made in order for someone to critique it.

You may have a good ear for drums but not creating melodies. Or you may have a dope beat but it's too flat or needs mixing.

Upload something or PM somebody a track and ask them to listen to it.

 

[Living Bait]

Its about on par with RZA on Tha Beat Thang.. .

 

[Living Bait]

Dont get bogged down in VST's and sample packs. . .

They make beats that sound like Tekken or Shinobi . .

 

[I'm Blackman]

OP do you understand basic musical theory or are you kind of fiddling around with a keyboard seeing what works? Also do you understand synthesis or do you rely on presets?

Nothing necessarily wrong with relying on presets at your beginning stage. The technical "production" aspect, including synthesizer programming, mixing and mastering, is a whole thing to delve into in itself that has nothing to do with your ability to write good music.

However you HAVE to understand basic musical theory. You are wasting your time and potential otherwise. To be clear, this doesn't mean learning how to read or write sheet music. Completely unnecessary if you're interested in pop music or most dance music. If you can't tell me what is a key, what is a chord, what is chord progression, what is a scale, what are some common scales, you been doing it wrong. Whenever you conceive a "beat" or melody stuck in your head, do you know how to figure out the key to that little beat you got in your head and then expand it into a full, filling sequence? Most songs start with a simple idea. It might be a little melody in your head. It might be a percussion pattern that inspired you during a bumpy train ride. It may be a bass line. Once you take that simple idea, apply theory to it, and fill it in with the rest of the basic musical elements, you'd be shocked what you come up with. With musical theory making beats is no longer grueling guess work while staring in front a blank canvas, it's becomes more like cooking. You decide the bare minimum ingredients--your lead section, your rhythmic section(s), your bass, your percussion, your key, your scale, your chord progression--you arrange them together. Sometimes you come up with some fire sometimes you lay out something generic. But as long as you get that meat and potatoes "formula" of arranging and writing music whatever you come up with will ultimately sound "presentable" and it will become the most fun and joyous thing in the world whether you plan to ever show off what you're doing or not.

It's the secret to finally making sense to songwriting, freeing yourself of all the guesses and confusion, and making the music you actually want.

Keep in mind most popular music reuses the SAME theory. The SAME chord progressions and ideas. The same shyt over and over, just arranged differently. It's not as much study as you may think. Making pop music is fun and easy. Once you learn theory and can even decipher what your favorite songs are doing theoretically you will kick yourself in the foot and how fun and easy (albeit technical and time consuming) making music is. You will find yourself sitting around for hours just having jam sessions to your own beats. It's awesome.

Close out the DAW for a moment and find a nice crash course on YouTube on basic musical theory. Take some time away from the producing and get this down. You will not regret it young bro! Hit me up if you have ANY questions.

I have no interest in making beats and I only understand about 10 percent of this. But found it impressive nonetheless.