How To Make Rap Beats

The drum patter is most definitely the most essential aspect of producing rap beats. If you want to make beats you must understand how to program patterns correctly and make them interesting, memorable, and danceable.

Once creating rap beats you have to learn what the different drum parts are and what they do. You probably already know what the snare is – it is the most prominent beat in the pattern. The bass drum keeps the rhythm of the melody and bass line and the hi hats keep the timing and add syncopation. These parts are the fundamentals of a live drum kit. Everything other drum part is usually used to add accenting and a little more flavor.

The snare beat is an anchor point in the pattern, depending in the timing. To simplify it, the snare beat is a beat you would clap along to the patter on. As an example, think of “In Da Club” by 50 Cent. This song actually uses a “clap” sound on the snare part, so that is an easy illustration.

The bass drum beat on the similar song follows and accents the synthesizer horn hits. Listen to the “horn” sounding part and notice how the bass drum always hits on those notes too. This is a general rule but it goes a long way in making your hip hop beats match your melody and bass lines.

Also in this song, he hi hats are replaced with what sound like more of a shaker, equally breaking up the pattern on eighth and quietly on 16th notes. The hi hats may be opened or closed and on specific beats, they can eve be dropped out on certain notes, and used in a very non-steady, syncopated way to completely change what the beat sounds like.

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