To make your own beat it doesn't take as much effort as you might think. The time when you had to spend a quick grand just to make some beats is pretty much over. Now you can download a beat maker to your PC or MAC and start making beats in minutes. This means that you don't need any other plug-ins, hardware, software, cords, mixers...well, you get the idea.
The software beat makers of today that allow you to make your own beat are stand-alone and the best part is, you don't have to spend a lot of money to get started with these particular beat makers. A software beat maker is going to allow you to make your own beat in minutes and you get a 16-track sequencer (not 8-track), tons of sounds and most come standard with an easy export to mp3 button which you can use to upload the song to MySpace so you can show-off your skills or download it to mp3 to show all your friends.
This also makes it very easy to make beats in a matter of minutes instead of hours and hours, because you can simply go to the sound library, pull the sneer, hi-hat, bass drum, bass lines (for the hook) and other sounds you didn't even know existed, and mess with the volumes a little bit, and before you know it, you have a nice beat. You may have to adjust some of the volumes but that would be it.
Now once you decide to export this to mp3, you can still upload it to another track sequencer and add other parts the way you like, and then export the entire song to mp3. This could be a good idea if you want to add your own rap and hip-hop lyrics to the beat (which you may want to do).
Washington is a Webmaster for SoftwareBeatMaker.com. For more information on learning about how to make your own beats and to learn about hip-hop beat makers go to SoftwareBeatMaker.Com/
