Producing music and making beats is something that can be very fun. Music has a big impact on the way people think, feel and act. Being able to create your own beats and music is something that can be not only very fun, but also very addictive.

There are so many different kinds of sounds that you can put together when making beats. The possibilities are basically endless.

The notion that many people have is that you need to have thousands of dollars in equipment and hours and hours of classes and tutoring. This is totally untrue.

There are plenty of programs and tools offered online very cheap that you can produce beats with. Most of these tools and programs offer extensive help guides and tutorials. You can get one of these programs for as little as $30.

I believe these tools are a great place to start with making your own beats and producing your own music. I say this because you can basically test the water before you go full blown into producing music. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on equipment and then later down the road figure out that producing music is not for you. More essentially, it is a safe road.

Not only is acquiring an online tool for making beats and producing music the safe way to go, but it is also a great place to start. You will learn a lot about making beats and producing music through help guides and tutorials. You will figure out if you want to take the next step. This would be actually spending thousands of dollars on equipment and even advanced music production classes and schooling.

But for now, I recommend sticking to a cheap online production tool, which will work just fine for you for now.

By: Maryann Morrison

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If you want to make your own beats for free, then you need a few pointers to head you in that direction. A lot of the choices you make are going to depend on your own personal tastes. Like the type of music you want to make, for which you need to match up a software program for.

Depending on your situation as far as finances, this article deals with how to make your own beats for free, but there are many pay programs available to those for who that isn’t a problem.

In matching your software also shop the features of the different ones available, and match that against your goals for your tracks. They differ in what they offer, so there may be one that offers one thing you need, and another has something else but not that, and then there may be one that has both. Knowing your music goals will help you in shopping the software.

The first brick in this wall is a good sequencer. Two popular ones are Propellerheads’s Reason, and Image-Line’s FL Studio.

Sound editor comes next. These you will use for editing wave files, a must when using samples. (Samples are parts of audio tracks used as a foundation for your music).

You can obtain samples from numerous places – CD samples, or old records, etc. You’ll see once you start to lay your tracks how invaluable a good sound editor is when making your own beats.

To summarize, this article has given you some good general advice on how to start making your own beats.

By: Erik Cale

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Have you ever wanted to create your own unique piano songs? Just simple pieces that express how you feel? You can if you learn how to improvise first and then learn how to compose. Here’s why.

Improvising allows you to express what you feel without constraint. In essence, it’s like freewriting because the goal here is to free your own unique voice without having to worry about right or wrong, good or bad. It is a skill that students should learn before any other and is foundational for further success at composing. Once you are able to sit down at the piano and can trust your intuition to guide you, you’re ready to compose.

Composition is really just slowed down improvisation. We take the initial inspirational gem we’ve discovered through improv and flush it out using the tools of repetition and contrast. For example, in the lesson “Waiting for Spring,” we learn how to create a simple ABA form in the Key of C.

The key here is that we already know the piece will be an ABA form so how do we proceed? Easily! The way I do it is I write out the first 8-bars and then improvise to see what will come up. Once I’m onto something, I write out the first 2-bars of the melody so I can remember it. Then I use chords from the Key of C Major to finish the first 8-bars; my (A) section. Another 8-bars or so for my (B) section and I’m done! The arrangement of this easy piano song usually works itself out to be play the (A) section twice, (B) section once, back to the (A) section and I’m done. Most of the time, this comes out to about 2-3 minutes of music.

The important thing for creating your own piano songs is that you must be able to move forward and complete sections of music. This is best accomplished when you can improvise freely first!

By: Edward Weiss

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Have you ever marveled at how artists can quickly sketch out a beautiful landscape scene and convert it into a full-fledged painting? I have and I’ve always been jealous of their ability to do so.

I’ve often wondered why music couldn’t be more like this. Of course composers know how to go about creating a complete piece of music, but I didn’t want to spend years learning theory and harmonic analysis. I didn’t want to study form and compositional technique. Not because I was lazy or unmotivated but because there had to be a simpler way of taking what I felt inside and turning it into a piano improvisation or composition.

Fortunately for me, I discovered my own unique method for quickly creating what I love to create and that is New Age piano music.

A few chords and a Key to play in are all I needed to begin quickly creating my own unique piano journeys. You see the problem most aspiring composers have is that they think they need to learn everything that was ever written about how to compose music. This isn’t necessary and only serves to delay the experience of jumping in the water and trying it first hand.

My method is really simple – improvise first and let the music tell you where it wants to go. That is, let go and allow the music to flow through you. I ALWAYS START WITH IMPROVISASTION because this is where the raw creative energy is. If something strikes me as particularly nice, I’ll draw out 8-bars on a sheet of paper. It doesn’t have to be notation paper either. I just use a blank composition journal I bought at a Borders bookstore to do this.

After the 8-bars is drawn, I’ll write in the first 2-bars of the melody to remember the initial idea. I then use the chords from the Key I’m working in to complete this small 8-bar section. Working within 8-bar sections is, I think, the best way a beginner can actually complete a musical phrase. It’s a very attainable goal and works very well.

By: Edward Weiss

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As a DJ, don’t you **** it when you sell your own mixtape, but nobody buys it because of the ugly cover? Chances are that you probably designed the cover yourself. You did some research online, followed a couple articles and watch video tutorials on how to design – thinking that you will be an overnight expert graphic designer and Photoshop guru.?You give your all in making this Jamaican themed cover design. But all those who see your finished product give you comments like ‘This is not Jamaican’ or ‘Your design looks like crap.’ ?

I once recorded a mixtape of my own thinking that it will sell like hot cakes considering all the exclusives and guest freestyles that I had on it. The music was dope and my friends loved it and so did everyone who listened to it. But in order to save money I decided to design the mixtape cover myself. This was the biggest mistake that I made. The tape sold poorly and the poor cover design was to blame. This was when I decided to have a professional design my cover.?

I researched online about which designer I should hire and numerous articles and reviews recommended that I visit sample?mix tape designs. I was very impressed when I saw samples of other people’s work and excited to have my cover designed by them. Getting a hot and stylish mix tape cover was easier than I thought.

The prices were also very affordable: US$45 for a front cover design and US$65 for both front and back cover designs. The sales you will make from a mixtape with good music and an attractive cover will more than compensate for the money you’ll be spending on design expenses. ?So why waste time and spend hundreds of dollars on graphic design lessons when you can get the job done correct and immediately.

By: Erika Ayala

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