Top tips for making your first beat tape
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- In this video I talk you through my structure for making a beat tape. If you are new to making beat tapes and need some guidance I hope this is useful for you. For those of you that have already made tapes hopefully there is still some useful info or ideas that you can take from this one!
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indeed taking a step back and coming back after several days on what has already been created is something I experienced recently and it's really something incredible
Helps a lot I find yeah!
I just made my first beat on my new SP, your content has been a tremendous help! Thank you for what you do
Dope man! Seems like such a long time ago when I made my first beat damn haha
First beat tape I made was a love story. (Lonely fields EP) was more or less consisted of Lofi/chill
My second beat tape (Red Tape EP) was from a place of anger. Hyper up-beat fast paced trap/rap style beats. Very heavy percussion. Proud of that one the most.
My third beat tape (Brockhampton Series) was from a creative space I had at the time. The last beat that I made for it was the most recent attempt at recreating that same energy. and for obvious reasons was a homage for the rap group Brockhampton.
my forth beat tape (Purple Room Dreams EP) was supposed to be an actual record. But I couldn’t record anything. Though I couldn’t really clear any samples i uploaded anyways I think that this beat tape speaks to me the most. Although the mix was shit. Every beat was a chapter in my life translated into a beat/song
I made the three tapes around the same time. The first one I will never re-release. And I plan on making another beat tape this year!
Hey there, im pretty new to make beat tapes, like i have this series called beats for the people, from the sloth. I've made 2 volumes.
Volume 1 had 6 beats, and a deluxe with 8 beats (i dont even know why i did that barely anybody watches my channel lmao but i just love it). I cringe listening to this cause i put this really corny producer tag that i never used agian. Consists mostly of polo g type piano beats and guitar beats and 2 samples (i dont use samples much).
Volume 2 was only 5 songs but much better imo.
The thing is these only had 5 or 6 songs so I didnt have to worry too much about the order.
Now I'm ognna put out the next volume and since its the trilogy I decided to go all out with 12 tracks. Theres different genres. Theres that familiar 2010s synth heavy rap style of beats, Smooth jack harlow type beats, a horrorocore, an edm, a sad reflective kinda beat, Drill beats and punk/rage beats. As someone whose done this, how do oyu suggest I order these.
2 years later. i found a great video. thank you!
Hope it helps you out 🙌
Thank you! Ive been battling trying to push my projects out! This really helps a lot especially with picking tracks that fit the mood.
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching
Genuinely helpful tips, thank you!
Glad to help man! Thanks for watching 💥
Great video my brother and very informative!! Planning on putting a couple beat tapes together this year, and these tips are very helpful!🙏🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥
Glad to hear it man! And good luck with the tape. Its a lot of fun putting them together!
Great advice, thanks for posting this.
No problem man, appreciate the comment!
Thank you I’ll put this into perspective in my next tape
No problem man, thanks for watching!
Great Video! Great tips!
Very Unique and helpful advice for building beats 🤟
Appreciate it man, thanks for tuning in
Loved this! I've been thinking of starting a beat tape since I got my SP! currently waiting on a skin, but I decided to get chroma caps for my SX
Do it man, so good for monitoring progress like I mentioned in this video!
I dunno if anyone has said this but that outro beat is hard af, bruh...
Thanks for all your hard work!!
Appreciate that man, I actually make a lot of the music for my vids using splice loops so can't take too much credit. I did lay all the drums etc over the top though. Thanks for watching man
That was a very helpful outline 🫡
great tips. thank you!
No problem man, appreciate it!
@@spvidz np, can't wait for the competition
Great video man. Where and what platform would be the best to release your beat tape on? I've deff got enough instrumentals for a beat tape but not really sure where I should release it.
I still like putting my stuff on Soundcloud at the moment. There is also the option of Spotify etc through Distrokid as well. Use my link to get a discount distrokid.com/vip/spvidz
almost 20k subs! fuck yeah.
Thank you man! Yeah slowly getting there :)
I just recently started to use my sp404a and your channel is incredibly inspiring and helpful.
One question you may have received heaps of times: when collecting samples, how are you gonna be sure you can legally release the finished product? Lately copyright stuff is becoming more and more tedious for independent artists that don't have a big label that will pay for tbe rights to use those samples...
Thanks a lot mate!
I'm going to do a video about this soon man. Getting asked about it a lot lately!
Just hide the sample and don’t bother getting clearance. Only downside that can happen is the algorithm may catch copy written material if you don’t mangle it enough and/or chop it enough. Just keep creating and don’t get hung up over the copyright stuff, hip hop was built on uncleared samples
@@spvidz thanks a lot!! Can't wait for it!
@@BeastlyAnteater yeah I agree about it and I love the most common use of samples. The thing that bothers me is that nowadays if you want to put music online, these algorithms can still find the origin of the sample and all of a sudden you can get sued or get your accounts suspended/canceled...and it would suck
@@AnD2LPU you’re not going to get sued. IF the algorithm catches your sample you’ll get the song removed but beyond that there isn’t much punishment. I’ve had one song removed from SoundCloud and dozens that remain with non cleared samples. I only get a hundred or so plays per track tho 😂
hey man I have a question for you. I'm super intersted in taking a bunch of samples from Ryo Fukui's Scenery (I saw it in your video what is what reminded me lol). Thing is, that record has a LOT of percussion in it, especially this super snappy snare. What kind of advice do you have for sampling from stuff that's percussion heavy? The piano licks in that album are to die for but I'm concerned that the BPM of the percussion in the sample will be a lot faster than the BPM of my track and overall the percussion in the sample would fuck with the groove of my own drums. Any advice?
filter and chopping basically. Either chop around the percussion, try and filter them out with EQ or just embrace them being in the background. Sometimes it can add an interesting dynamic to your beat having a few random percussion hits in the background. Sidechain compression on the kick will help to hide stuff too.
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Yo appreciate it man! Thanks for tuning in
A couple of your points really hit on some things on my mind lately. I really hope Tracklib developed an app so i can listen/like/organize their catalogue on the go. A producer’s Spotify, if you will.
The other thing is, I feel like I’m ready to expand a little and find a piece of gear that would complement my 303 and Ableton. Inspiration/workflow would be priority as you mentioned, but idk what might be best. I thought the Arturia Minilab mk2 would push me to learn chords and stuff, but its felt more like a chore unfortunately.
I saw you have the Push 2, would you say you went through a similar experience in regards to finding new equipment? There’s so many options (sp404, MPC live/one/x, maschine, push, verselab, and so many others) it’s overwhelming. Do you have any advice that could make the deciding process easier?
I completely agree - its overwhelming and finding the right gear is a pain. There's a few in my collection that hardly get touched. Its the curse of being a musician/beatmaker I think - constantly buying and selling gear trying to find that sound you want. I actually have the push 1 not the 2 and it still serves me really well. Love the feel of the pads. The 2 would be a great upgrade for me at the moment as my beat making is moving towards ableton as I like the control so I've been looking at it, but not got a lot of money for new gear right now. Try and use youtube as much as you can to see what instruments/samplers can do - you have to see past the demos and try and look at the features as most of the time they are demoed using EDM haha.
@@spvidz you’re right about everything being EDM, lol. I’m definitely leaning into Ableton as well. I’ll dive deeper and try and see what speaks to me. From your experience how do you think the 404 and Push would stack against each other, in the context of pairing with a 303 and Ableton, I mean. Any pros and cons come to mind?
Not a awful lot of different between those two devices tbh. People swear by the 303 MFX - they are pretty butter and if you are just running your signal through it you don't need to worry about storage space or speed either.
What if you use samples in your beats for your beat tapes? You can and should still upload through distrokid/tunecore ?
technically not no - you are in breach of copyright unless you have permission to use them. What I would say though is if you are pretty low-key the chances of anything happening are pretty slim but its completely up to you if you want to risk it. I think worst case scenario for people at our level you will probably just be asked to remove them from Spotify
Hey i am new to this, just wanted to be clear that does a beat tape need to only have sampled beats ?
no, a beat tape is just a collection of beats you've made it can be whatever! There are no rules :)
What's your artist name on spotify?
Gone12. My beats on there are old though be warned haha
@@spvidz haha don’t worry, I’ve been making beats for almost 20 years they can’t be that old! I just got given an SP404A so finding your vids very helpful and I wanted to listen to your beats they sound nice, I’ve worked with Native Instruments a lot so I’m more used to machine but I’ve always wanted one of these! I recently had some Lofi tracks out and hit 28k listeners, so I need to keep the momentum up! Thanks for the inspiration bro 🙏🎧
Do you think it would be a good idea to add a few comedy skits in the beat tape?
Its up to you man, its your tape :)
@@spvidz True, well I think I'll add the skitts.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I reccomend you don't stop the beats for the jokes unless it's just a short intro, but keep a beat playing behind the skits, then you sould keep the flow going.
Clutch
appreciate it!