Making Beats Online: The Future of Beat Production
Professional Online Studios
There are several websites that are set up similar to recording studios, with beats for sale. It’s like having access to a professional producer online. For a price, you can log on to the website, submit your idea and they will compose your beat for you. Pretty cool, right?
I stumbled onto this information one day when I was exasperated trying to finish a track for a good friend of mine. I typed ‘how to make a drum track online’ and several links to different websites that were offering beats for sale exploded onto my computer monitor.
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I didn’t actually go through with it because as a businessman, if I am only going to make 100 for the track, it didn’t make sense to spend 125 just for a helping hand to complete my beat. It was 85% finished already……..but I thought that it was good to know that there are options out there. Know what I’m sayin’?
Getting Through Writer’s Block With Just a Web Browser
If I had a client that was doing a package deal of 2 or more tracks then I would definitely keep the outsourcing option in mind. Every artist in the universe catches a case of the writer’s block at one time or another and sometimes you exhaust all of your creative options to the point that you feel like you’re banging your head against a brick wall.
When you have tried changing the tempo. After you have redirected the bass to another channel and tweaked the hi-hat to its limit. After you have pulled out the old vinyl instrumentals and tried to gain inspiration from tracks of old and you still cannot complete the track, then perhaps it is a good idea to invest in a little outsource assistance.
Writer’s block can be a royal pain in the you-know-where, but it is a fact of life that all artists face. After all, we are not computers that continually generate information as long as you are plugged in to the power strip. We are human beings that run out of ideas for new material. It happens, yo.
Many of the websites that sell beats offer a money back guarantee if you are not fully satisfied with the track they composed for you. Although I am not quite sure how they would know that you didn’t download and save the beat, then complained about it. Kind of like the chick who buys a special outfit for her big night at the club, then tries to return it the next day. Scandalous.
But, what about the dub copies?
I would NEVER, ever buy dub copies. I don’t even buy dubbed copies of artists’ CD releases that are for sale on nearly every street corner in every hood across the nation. Talkin bout: “Yo cuz, I got that new Lil Wayne for $5”. I always politely decline.
As an artist I do not subscribe to paying some cat for a copy of something that he had no part in creating. How is this guy gonna make money off of somebody else’s hard work. Anybody can buy a CD burner and run copies. How is that earning money. What up with that really doe. Where is the respect for the game?
But I would recommend trying one of the online beat store websites if you ever find yourself in a jam with a track. If you are simply unable to figure out what is missing, they always say that two sets of eyes or ears are better than one. Submit your idea (as long as you have had it copyrighted beforehand) to a fellow professional and let him or her close the deal for ya.