What do you start a beat with first, music/sample or drums? why?

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What do you start a beat with first, music/sample or drums? why?


I think either way can lead to a banger but I typically start with drums.
 
Different every time.

Drums..............most likely messing with a drum break or something. I hear a certain break drum in my head so I grab it chop it up.

Sample............sample has been playing in my head and how I want to chop it. Or......just feel like messing with old stuff I chopped to pieces.

Melody..............I might get a new vst instrument or mess with the old ones and come up with something from a weird sound. I might play around with a rhodes sound, I might try to play something that was in a sample. It might have been a bass riff in a song.....I'll play it with the rhodes or whatever.

Hell...I'll get on the mic and audio to midi a whole beat just for fun. And find the sounds I tried to imitate with my mouth.
 
Music/sample...........It's just easier for me to put drums in after I do the melody. Though I'm gonna have to fall back on sampling for a while, I got too far up the Soundclick charts w/ a sample beat and now they got my account under review -_-
 
Idk..usually when I sit down to try to make a beat something ends up knocking me out..and by the time I wake back up the beat is finished..I honestly couldn't tell u what gets laid down first.
 
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i listen to the song i'm sampling from a dozen times, start with that(cutting, stretching, fading, etc) then add the drums next.
 
Typically, if you are using samples than I would start with that first being that it will set the tempo for the rest of the song. Next the drums and bass to get the rhythm section down and then everything else.
 
Whatever you do first is usually going to be more dominant.

So if I'm trying to make a beat that revolves around an awesome drum loop, I'm probably going to do that first.

To be honest, I haven't done that in moths though. I usually always start with some sort of melody.
 
If im making a sampled beat, i usually always start with the sample and then pick drums to match. If im just making something with no samples, i lay down the music first.
 
Wedges2 said:
I see.

So does anyone pace around the room muttering melodies until one hits you? That's how I start pretty much every beat.
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Lol. Thats how people who compose (Play) music get down. generally instrument players and vocalists. From the inside out, not the other way around. My guess is your a musical genious :cool:
 
^^^I do play a mean tambourine.

I'm at the point where I'm starting to think that Software Guitar should be included in the "real instruments category". I mean, I'm pretty talented at making fake guitar sound real, and I feel like I should be able to say "Ya, I play fake guitar". It's harder than you think...
 
Wedges2 said:
. I mean, I'm pretty talented at making fake guitar sound real
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Im the opposite, good at making real guitar sound fake :)
Each of those is a helluva feat though...
I did make a suitcase electric piano sound exactly like a distorted guitar recently, I felt pretty accomplished lol.
 
Ya I'm pretty bad at actually playing. I have a Fender and a bass guitar sitting right next to me and the most I've done is a fret slide with the bass here and there.

It's tough to find good guitar players too. Which is pretty discouraging when I'm thinking of learning. Like if the guy who's been playing bass for 6 years has to tell me "I'm sure you'll find something good in that take" after EVERY take I don't really feel like picking it up and learning it myself.
 
You must live in siberia lol. Good guitar players are a dime a dozen. Ive been playing the better part of 15 years, and i will tell you this; If you can make it through the first six months without getting discouraged, then its all downhill from there. Got your hands on any chords at all? An A5 even?
 
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