Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Hunting For The Ideal Beat Loop

By Julian Walls


Every beat producer out there's looking for one thing, the ideal beat. Naturally, nobody wants to find the ideal beat just once, they'd like to find the formula for the perfect beat, creating something vital, each time they start up their sequencing software.

Naturally, what the ideal beat looks like changes over time. Like anything else in music, things don't stand still for exceedingly long, if . Therefore the idea of looking for the perfect beat can be a search that goes on indefinitely, even if you find you've reached perfection, or neared it, from time to time.

But what makes the ideal beat loop. Is it innovation? Is it the way a vocal fits over it? Is it the way that it lightly evolves or changes around a hook? Clearly all these things are vital, if you're searching for perfection. Any producer who would like to make the final beat will need to have these things, to maximise the probabilities of hitting perfection.

Obviously, there are ways of making it rather more likely that perfection is hit. For instance, making certain that you are learning your software inside out, trying out any new ideas that come to you and paying attention to other music, both the classics and the new stuff that others are doing.

At the same time, you need to avoid copying others, maintain your mixing talents and get the maximum out of the artists you work with. Getting input from vocalists, as an example, can make a positive impact on how your beats work, in fact, sitting on a track.

It's also vital to get the balance right, when it comes to self feedback. You do not need to be so urgent that it stops you trying new things; on the other hand, if you are not urgent enough, it can be hard to reach a point of perfection. When you make beats it is chock-full of that sort of tightrope walking.




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