also, never underestimate how far people will go to shake a few pennies out of you.
if you get emails from proclaimed labels ALWAYS make sure they are legit before even responding.

well i have been making music for 3 or 2 yearz and never sold a beat but so wat ive noticed BIG diffrence a while back ive went on my old raggedy computer n herd sum off my older stuff guez what my face went from wtf to omg to laughing cuz ive noticed ALOT off diffrence now i can make a beat that sound decent that can go out n might sell wich whas im not able off before and therre,s sumething i remeber froma scott storch intervieuw
''IF YOU MAKE MUSIC N YOUR HAIRS ON YOUR ARMSTARTS TO GET UP YOU KNO YOUR DOING RIGHT'' n dats true sumettymes imbumping my head so hard to my stuff i even forget what i whas to add next as S.P.E said learning music theory is amust first off all dats my problem i have a billion idea,s
in my head but i dont got enough knowledge to layer it down or have the equipment like moogsor a motif or a nord lead wich contain sounds i ususally have in my head i always think myself down at things but i dont care i LOOOOVE music i thinktherres nutting else beside that wherre fori live for ive been
into music since very young ??? like Ginuwine back in teh 90,s dat track holla and biggie and tupac and stuff and other rappers i never known da name off so yeah PRACTICE PRACTICE LEARN LEARN and have fun over a time i also got frustrated that i wanted to earn money making beats to get sum gear but now imsaving up to get gear to MAKE a decent beat first its a hobby and maybe your WORk

PS:hahah 2nd man you damn sure bout yo self huh ??

nah, i meant the exact opposite. I'm always doing something, always got something else to do instead

Posted By Soul Purpose Ent. on 15 Jul 2009 05:32 AM
also, never underestimate how far people will go to shake a few pennies out of you.
if you get emails from proclaimed labels ALWAYS make sure they are legit before even responding.

This one is also very important, be careful with that, cuzz there are alot of these typa faggs on the net..
Anywaysss....

#9 + #10
Two for one I'm the nicest dude you'll ever know! XD... .
These two articles are about 'tuning in to the "tonic" and maximazing your mixes'.
Enjoy!

Part 1

QuikTipz: Tune to the Tonic & Maximize Mixes

By MPCsounds.com

When producing Hip Hop, the single most important aspect of the drum mix is the kick. When mixed correctly, the kick serves as a solid foundation behind the whole production. However, what most engineers & producers do NOT know is that there is more to mixing kicks than mere choice of samples, compression settings, & EQ.

Hardly discussed at all, is the secret technique used by Pro's where the kicks in a mix are finely tuned to the first musical note (tonic) of a song's key. "What's the big deal about tuning a kick to the key of my song?" you might ask. Well, it's a very big deal! In fact, applying this technique correctly can set a producer apart from the sea of amateurs for evermore...

The fact is kicks DO have pitch, low frequency pitch. Therefore, in terms of a kick's pitch embedded within a song's own key signature, a kick can either work against or with the resonance of your entire mix. And perhaps even more important, without tuning a kick to the song's tonic, the entire output level of your mix will forever remain un-optimized!

What do we mean? We mean "out of tune" kicks equal a forced lower output due to low end pitch & frequency conflicts. In other words, you'll never be able to truly maximize the output of any mix until your kick resonates with the key of the song at hand. Once the kicks in a mix resonate where their pitched oscillations match the song's natural key & primary frequency, the song's dynamic range & output level potential expand greatly!

Having just introduced this powerful yet highly guarded technique, there are several crucial aspects you must learn one-by-one. Get prepared to dive into all the nitty gritty details of "Tune to the Tonic" - Part 2 is on its way!

Part 2

QuikTipz: Tune to the Tonic & Maximize Mixes
Part TwoBy MPCsounds.com

Before diving into further details on "Tune to the Tonic", let's quickly mention how building & constructing kicks may actually involve layering 2 or more kick samples together. For example, you may find that using one kick sample only can't meet all your needs. You may need to layer 2 or more kicks to achieve an overall desired "kick sound". One kick may be chosen for it's low end while another kick is layered over the first kick for its upper range attack or high end ambience. Layering kicks like this is fine. However, the more kicks you use, the more attention you must give to tuning each kick's pitch to the first musical note (tonic) of the song's key.

First, starting with a main kick, choose one that has an identifiable low end pitch. Kicks primarily consist of low frequency sound waves in which there is a main, underlying root pitch which can be heard as the loudest (and usually the lowest) frequency above all other combined tones. This loudest frequency is called the "tonal resonance". Once you find and identify the kick's tonal resonance, you'll need to make the kick "resonate".

You can make a kick resonate by fine tuning the kick until its loudest and lowest tonal pitch matches and blends with the tonic (first musical note) of your song's key signature. When adjusting the kick's pitch, it's highly suggested that a "cent" adjustment be used. If the software/hardware sampler does not allow such fine tuning, it's possible that you may only get very close and not an exact match with the tonic. This can cause an adverse, and unwanted, secondary wave to modulate called a "beat".

By exactly tuning your kick to the tonic of your song's key, you can be confident that the kick will "sing" and resonate in harmony with your entire song. This greatly emphasizes the chord structure of the song and prevents build up of low frequency conflicts that other instruments such as bass guitar and synth bass can introduce.

Sometimes it may be difficult to identify which note/key the kick is resonating on and thus, hard to tune to your song's key. Stay tuned for more QuikTipz that reveal the specific techniques required to identify ANY kick's pitch, regardless of how difficult it may seem!

Toolntegrate, keep 'em com'in! A least the next one. Gd Lk'n

i wouldnt have to wouldn't find the correct pitch of a kick using "cent" measures... i mean, if it adjusts it so minutely, would it really make all that of a difference? i just make sure the kick sounds good with the instruments/feel i choose for the beat, lol. maybe that sets me below the great producers on WB

I dont think anybody around here fine tunes kicks....except of maybe 808 kicks...

Ai matey, it be a good practise for these pop tunes using computer generated kick sound substitutes :p. But for people who sample breaks, meh...

Did you ever see a band go " Hold up dudes, yo drummer your kick is one semitone off... nigguh pleeeese!"

This is all good advice and will help you grow as a producer. But like I said in my first post, if you start staring at the numbers too much thinking that your doing right. You may very well stop using your ears and to hear what it actually sounds like.

lmao...yeh agreed

yea agreed, you can forget to use your ears sometimes, what with meters, graphic equalisers, sequencers, samplers all on computer. its useful yea, but when its more of a case of looking at it and almost coding your music, it can suffer

Take the bits and pieces of info and it will all help in giving your song that extra edge to make it sound 'pro' ... =D Like said before. It will help you set yourself apart from the wide range of amateurs... These tips are not a must but they surely will help you in making your song hotter on some levels, and that's what it's about ^.^

Vitamin F#? LMFAO!!!

Posted By TooIntegrated on 09 Jul 2009 07:32 AM
It's tme for some producing techniques!

** Notice: I do not take any credits by the following information I'm about to display.. The rights for this article are owned by 'Modernbeats.com'.. .

See the courtesy I have being a customer from 'Modern Beats' I get free top producer tips!

Check out this one I'm about to share wth you. It's called 'Flamming your kicks' .. . Try it out. It's really a nice technique.. ^o^!

Quik Tipz: Flam Your Drumz like tha Pro's
By ModernBeats.com

An advanced hip hop MIDI sequencing technique that many pro's use is what is known as a "flam". The technique is mostly applied to a drum pattern's snare or clap, and sometimes the kick as well. MPCsounds reveals how to create skilled hip hop flams below...
A "flam" is a unique double-slap percussive sound achieved by triggering two samples quickly, side-by-side. Depending on the tempo of your track, this quick double-triggering can be as fast as a 1/32 or 1/64 note (and even quicker for more subtle effects). Also, there are numerous types of flam timbres you can create such as flamming the same 2 samples together (Snare A with Snare A), flamming 2 different samples together (Snare A with Snare B), flamming the same 2 samples together yet each having a different EQ (Clap A high-passed with Clap A lows boosted) and so on! A good example of a flam using the same 2 snare samples together can be heard in BuyaBeat.com's NEbeat23-1.mp3.
Three Main Ways to Control a Flam's Feel:
1) The first way, of course, is the amount of space the 2 flamming samples are set apart from each other such as a 32nd note or 64th note apart etc. As you experiment with spacing, you'll quickly realize the flam's feel varies greatly changing this parameter alone.
2) The second way to control the flam's feel is how you set the note velocity & amplitude of each sample. You can arrange the flam so the first sample acts as a soft velocity "ghost" note that precedes the second sample which is louder and higher velocity/amplitude values. Also, you can reverse the order of velocity settings (loud-soft) to create the complete opposite dynamic feel!
3) The third element of controlling a flam's feel is in the timing & placement of the flam within the drum sequence. For example, you can sequence the flam so the first note of the flam lands directly on the main pulse of any given bar where the second note of the flam acts as a slapback or ricocheted hit occurring after the main pulse. Moreover, you can achieve the opposite feel by offsetting the flam's timing to where the second note of the flam lands directly on the main pulse instead of the first. This effect causes the first note in the flam to act as a pickup note leading into the main pulse flammed sample...
While flams are traditionally used on snare and claps, kicks can be flammed as well. However, due to low frequency conflicts that result when flamming kicks, more care and skill must be applied. Stay tuned for our "Know How to Flam Kicks Correctly" tips email to discover the secrets on creating professional sounding kick flams in the style of 50 Cent and more!

WoWWW!!!! a flam        One of the most basic techniques that all drummers use
Geeeeeee whizzzzz     thanks Too Integrated      Now my beats will sound 1837376464 times better   LOL             hahahahahahaha       

anyways you shouldnt be using flams for your crunk top 40 bullish Too integrated it already sounds terrible as it is

are you joking ^ or am i gettint this right that you are dissing "THE MAN" T.I

he didnt have to put this stuff up on here but for some people it actually helps them improve just a little because we are not all pro's at this so unless you have some tips or you wanna say thanks to someone for what they posted why the f**k waste your time posting anything.

ya thats exactly right
i can diss whoever the funk i want
and why the funk is TI considered the man    ive heard beats on this site that are 95988585 times better than his bullish like stumbleweeds beat "wings"       that blows all TI's ish out of the water and then some
and all of K-Ta-klysms ish is funkin dope      his ish also funkin kills anything that TI has done
props to stumbleweed and K-taklysm for representin true hip hop

Wow, man, thanks for the appreciation but chill... at least TI's top 40 beats have something original to them... while most don't.
TI's beats have character, vibe, feeling and originality, while most beats of that kind don't, so respect that, you don't have to like them.
I want peace, you know

PS: TI, I am a little wrong when telling you this, because you didn't write those tips, but all that talk about pitching kicks tells us how heavenly and important it is to do so... but THERE IS NONE real method there to find the pitch. It's all bull-talk about how important it is (even if it's not even close, but you gotta have the right kick for your beats though), but no method to do that.

i dont think anything that even resembles anything in any way crunk is original-AT ALL
its all ringtone "rap" like hurricane chris or soulja boy
Im sure that if TI tried to make a real hip hop beat it would be DOPE and original 
I can tell that TI could be a great producer listening to his tracks hes just going in the wrong direction
would u want someone droppin science on your track or would you want someone yellin YOOOUULLLLLLLLL(soulja boy) into the mic     the obvious choice is the sciences and if you cant agree wit that F**k you Eat a dick and then some
WHY DO YOU PEOPLE THINK NAS IS SAYIN HIP HOP IS DEAD  

They're not rap beats, they're R&B and Pop beats man

and another perfectly fine thread down the drain..

hiphopjazzmusician...

Shall I teach you the difference between you and I?
It's our character.. .

It's like the fable of the monkey and the moon. However close he thinks he is to capturing the moon. It's still just a reflection on the water. When he tries to capture the moon, all he does is sink like a fool. Your 'fangs' will never reach me. For all eternity.

Now I will leave you to mahhh niggs here @ WB..
'Nuff said ..