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    I just noticed....

    typically the heatmakerz use 3/4 drums which accounts for their unusual sound. they use heavy pitch shifts instead of time stretch and shit homie, they also professional producers... what you said could apply to damn near every producer. a lot have labs full of stuff but on the avg beat they...
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    Drums like "No woman no cry" - fugees

    Marley, Bob (& the Wailers) Natty Dread: (Tuff Gong 1974) * "No Woman, No Cry" Fugees - "No Woman, No Cry" Try finding that song, its what was sampled...not sure if the drums are from it also though.
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    Influences???????

    its one of the most underrated ways to come up with a melody...as weird as it sounds i come up with my best stuff by listening to beats through a wall, and just vibing off of the low end of the melody or drums. it works..
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    Influences???????

    oh ok...damn then. thats a lot of work! i guess it just depends on how u feel the most comfortable but the piano roll drives me nuts most of the time...maybe i just need to try working with it a little more.
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    Piano instructional books

    yeah thats kinda what I had figured, damn...do you happen to know what the cheapest keyboard is with some serious keys? I really want to learn piano/keyboard skills but I'm still waiting to get my first MPC so my money is kinda looking elsewhere right now..
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    Influences???????

    i dunno man...maybe its just personal preference but unless ur doing a whole beat in the piano roll, i dont get how a whole beat could be complete with 2 or 3 patterns...intro, verses, breaks within the verses, lead in to chorus, chorus, bridge, end...thats a lot right there.
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    Piano instructional books

    do you think the hannon exercises will work for me if i'm using an M-Audio keyboard, or do I need something higher quality with real piano keys?
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    Piano instructional books

    try just searching for "hannon" on amazon.
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    Influences???????

    if you're at the level of selling beats to a major or semi major artist, it can definitely make a difference. a artist who really cares about their beats will demand individual tracks and its gonna be a mess if all your stuff is in 1 or 2 patterns.
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    Influences???????

    usually, i just put on some old soul and spark a blunt or two. you get in the feeling on the music, dig until you find something you want to sample, and then it clicks...all the beats i've made that have been high quality always come from a sample or synth sound that just hit me and made me say...
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    Choruses

    yeah i agree w/ sanova as a general pointer you want to flip the drums, melody, or both in the 4 to 8 bars before the chorus and then break into a consistent 4 bar chorus looped to 8 bars. try to keep the chorus simple because it should be the anchor of the song between your 16 'verse' bars...
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    The Alchemist Beats?

    If you want to know how to make his beats, you gotta study his stuff man. I can give you a few pointers...unlike a lot of producers, he relies mostly on the asr-10 and rarely uses an MPC. He prefers muted and non-distinctive but deep and strong kicks, and rarely uses rolling hi hats or...
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    Producer Rockwilder gonna help out up and coming producers, selling beats for $50

    He isn't giving away professional quality tracks...what he's basically doing is opening a beat auction site featuring (a few) beats from him and mostly beats from other people. There was a really persistent and strong rumor in the industry a few years ago that rockwilder's ghost producer...
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    Cool & Dre style drums

    Got a question for the forum... One of the things I've been trying to figure out is how producers like Cool & Dre get their drums sounding the way they do. I know your first reaction is 'they've been doing it for 10 years, it would take just as long to learn how'. I'm interested in...
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    Going to A Music Institution To Step Your Game Up?

    You're exactly right, except you don't understand the mentality of many people going into Berklee or similar schools. Many of them think they will learn how to become star producers, not engineer, and its selling them a false hope. If you want to learn to engineer, thats great, but don't trip...
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    Going to A Music Institution To Step Your Game Up?

    A good engineer can't make something medocre bangin. All great engineers are great b/c they have talent AND are given great material to work with. Honeslty, these schools make their money off of selling you the Kanye dream. The problem is, Kanye never went to one of them. Nor did most if...
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    Will a new Sound Card Make a Difference?

    if the one u have now doesn't have ASIO support, then yeah getting one with it would make a big difference.
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    Newfound respect

    The problem is man the south has been putting out this music for years, its just nobody's been listening til recently. It's not so much that southern rap is commercial but that commercial rap has become southern. big difference in my opinion
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    Newfound respect

    thats just ignorant man. Don't get it twisted though, Jon made that shi* popular.
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    New w/ Fruity Lops

    One thing about converting an mp3 into a wav...if you're doing it to import it to FL that's one thing, but you're gonna be working with a low quality sample most of the time (unless the mp3 you convert is 220+ quality). When you convert a mp3 into wav, you're basically making a very high...
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