Making beats is a blast. You have full control over your song, creating beautiful music with little more than your imagination and a computer program. It isn't easy, but the basics of beat-making are actually easy to get ahold of. Set up a...
Again, that’s Autotune, but set to a fast quantization: 32nd notes. “Swagger Like Us” is one of first songs we’ve heard use that effect on straight rap; usually producers reserve Autotune for singing only. It’s ingenious, really. There’s a lot of Haters, but it’s a dope ...
Here is an example of how to make a beat. Even though the beat below is made in Propellerhead Reason, the same thought process can be applied to other music programs and hardware. Lay out your drums, add instruments, and arrange your beat into a full song. Please Note: The beat below ...
Project— but these relative newcomers came out with my favorite song of the year, a 2-Step number beating nervously just in time with Toto’s lyrical longing. It’s resigned and a little bit deafeated, but still giving itself over to the thrill of those seconds where it all seems possib...
I'm like, "Okay, well let me get this record." Then we go and we strip it. We take the Pro Tools session, and we take the AutoTune off the vocals. We change everything. We'll change the key. We'll change tempos. We'll change whatever. Then we'll just make a whole new ...