Beats

How To Pick The Right Beats! A Rapper’s Guide to Hot Instrumentals

For any up and coming hip-hop artist, there are two things you need to make sure you have: mic skills and hot beats. To a certain extent, beats are the most important thing you need, because often times, people won’t even care what you are talking about if your beats aren’t hot! I’m sure you know some rappers who get plenty of attention with limited skills because they get crazy beats, so it makes it that much more important when you can really spit.

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Is Perfectionism Choking your Project's Music Creativity?

Ah, the Inner Editor of perfectionism…we all have one. Some of us know how to keep this guy in a straight jacket but others seem to let him bounce around the walls of our studio, whining and complaining about every detail until he’s left us tired and uninspired. There’s a time and place to let your Inner Perfectionism have the reigns but when you’re first working on a production or creating new music it is not the time. As creative people we all have to learn the mental personality called the Inner Editor and choose to control him and use him what he’s made for: Editing. If you are not editing but actually CREATING then the Inner Editing should be locked in..

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