Making Hip Hop Beats

Making Hip Hop Beats – 5 easy steps

This is a simple and short guide to making your own hip hop beats. Making hip hop beats is not as hard as most people think. However it requires discipline and we’ll summarize the steps required in the process to you could make a plan and start making your own beats.

1. Choosing a style - The first step of making hip hop beats is picking a style. This involves deciding whether you are going to produce rnb, rap, pop, etc. Then you need to choose an artist you like that plays this style. When you have your favorite artist – you need to get ideas for your beats by listening over and over to your artist and getting some ideas about your hip hop beat style.

2. Making your Hip Hop Track Foundation - You need to plan your songs intro, verse, chorus, bridge, etc. When you have all the parts ready, you can change their order and try different mixes and variations. At this stage you need to create your loops – you can make an 8 bar loop and use it throughout the whole song. The simplest way would be to start with the most basic structure: 4 bar intro, 16 bar verse, 8 bar chorus, 16 bar verse, 8 bar chorus, 16 bar verse, 8 bars chorus.

3. Making the beat – The most important tip here is to start with your drums. The drums are the most important part of your beat and will influence it the most. If your drums sound weak - your whole beat will be weak. Don’t cut corners at this stage and make sure your drums sound the exact way you want them to sound. We suggest checking out beats365.com for the most comprehensive resource of sample beats available online. You can also check out our Crunk Instrumentals page for further resources.

4. Beat Layer Perfection – After your beat is finished, you can make it sound much more professional by layering. Spend some time here – play with your beats layering to create a full and professional sound. You will notice how it becomes better and better – but of course don’t overdo it.

5. Distribution – You want to hear people’s feedback. You want hundreds and even thousands of people to hear you beat. Sending it to your friends won’t do it. You need to know all the online marketplaces for distributing your beat and getting as much exposure as possible. Take a look at our Sell Beats resource page and we highly recommend you to read the great guide “Make Money by Making Beats”.

We tried to summarize the most important steps for making hip hop beats. We hope that you found this useful – bookmark this page for referring to it later. You can also consider joining our mailing list for more guides, tips and industry updates.