| No, I am not talking about the song by the Go-Gos, and what’s really frightening here is that I remember that song by the Go-Gos! Anyway, that is an issue for my psychiatrist to go over with me in detail.
What I mean here is that the pulse of music is centered around beats and always has been. Drums always pound out the backbeat on any song, especially the rock and roll we hear on the car radios. So how many different ways can we get, the beat?
Well, there is always a live drummer, and yes I know they are pretty much a dying breed anymore with the digital electronics of today and programs like Pro Tools and Fruity Loops pretty much any one with a computer and the program can throw together a decent sounding beat and be a "beat maker".
But the truth is that sampling or throwing together a kick, a snare and some high hat samples at 120 BPM does not, and I repeat NOT make you a beat maker. It makes you someone that is experimenting with making a beat. It will give you a basic beat that most of your friends will think is really cool.
The truth about it is that you need to take some pretty specific steps and do some minute splicing and beat matching to be able to pull off a serious loop that can be considered a professional beat. That is precisely why myMusicCircle.com has a category for beats (submit your beats for sale or submit a project to have different beat makers from all over the world to submit beats and quotes for your project).
Not every studio these days has the space and the technical ability or equipment to adequately record a full kit of drums so there needs to be professionals that can sit down and take the information they are given and come up with a bet to provide the drums parts for the needs of particular clients. Hip-Hop and rap come to mind as the types of music where beats are most used but you might be surprised that they are common in today’s country as well. You might also find it interesting to note that the first country artist to use the "canned" drums on a complete CD project was (insert drum roll please) DOLLY PARTON.
So if you can learn the craft and art of making the beats you can be well on the way to paying your bills because that avenue of the industry is only going to continue to grow and if you want to stay competitive, you’ll need to embrace it or at least tolerate it.
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