How to Make Your Own Rap Beats – Where to Begin

Are you an aspiring hip hop producer that would like to know how to make your own rap beats, but don’t know where to begin? If the answer is yes to this question then you should enjoy this article. I will give a little insight on where to begin when it comes to learning how to make your own rap beats. First off there are many, many places that you can start, but the truth is a lot of those place can lead you down a dead end street.

Here are some places that you can start when it comes to learning how to make rap beats.

Beat Maker Magazines – This is a great place to start because you can get an idea of what kind of equipment and software that a lot of the industries top beat makers are using. I would recommend reading a few different magazines and then picking one or two to subscribe to. Doing this will greatly increase your knowledge on current styles and beat making methods. Most stores that have a magazine section will most likely carry magazines such as these.

Enroll In Some Classes – There are some very known music producing schools out there that will provide you with all of the tools needed to when wanting to learn how to make your own rap beats. One of the most popular schools for this is Full Sail. To some this school is considered the best of the best when it comes to learning music production. The only thing is that Full Sail does have a pretty expensive price tag. I will say this, if you can afford it I would say go for it, if not there are cheaper alternatives.

Local Beat Makers – There is a good chance that there is somebody in your area that makes beats. Maybe they make beats for local artist or maybe they went to school for it and now just makes them for fun. You should initiate some sort of relationship with this person. Let them know that you are very interested in learning how to make your own rap beats. Make it beneficial to the producer buy offering to pay for their time or helping them out with something. You may get lucky and find a beat maker that will teach you for free. Just keep your eyes and ears open because many of today’s top beat makers started off buy learning from a local producer.

Beat Making Online Workshops – Learning how to make beats online has been getting more and popular over the past few years. Many aspiring beat makers enjoy this method of learning because they can learn at their own pace and have complete control of what they are doing. Another good benefit of beat making online workshops is that most are not expensive at all and you learn just as much as you would from any other source.

Hopefully this article shed some light when it comes to getting started learning how to make your own beats. Go over the above information again and see what best works for you.

How to Play Thrash Metal Guitar

Thrash metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music. It developed in the early 1980′s and was a groundbreaking phenomenon in the world of metal music. Thrash is played at a furiously fast pace with a staccato, percussive guitar sound and has a high tempo with aggressive notes that give an impression of anger to the uninitiated. Thrash metal was created by American bands as a fusion of British heavy metal with the speed of hardcore punk. Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth are a few bands that made thrash metal immensely popular. Outlined below is a brief description of how to play thrash metal guitar.

Palm muting is a very useful technique that is essential to play metal in the guitar. It involves dampening the strings with the edge of your hand which when coupled with high gain or distortion from the amp produces a rhythmic thump on striking the strings. The further you mute the strings towards the neck of the guitar, the sharper sounds you get. Practicing some exercises daily can help immensely to improve your stance and position.

Once you are confident with palm muting, you can progress to the various other techniques available. Alternate picking or tremolo picking is one such technique that can improve the percussion and increase the tempo. With alternate picking, it is possible to pick faster and with more rhythmic accuracy. This requires a strong discipline with the picking rhythm.