What usually drives your reason for creating a beat?

[bigdmakintrax]

What usually drives your reasons for creating a beat?

I have a question, I always wonder about this but looking back at my reasons for getting into production was based on some rappers or artists coming to me asking if I could make some music for them to use, at that time was also going to college and also playing in a few bands, doing some DJ'ng and I never thought of it as producing like people use the term now just making some music for some cats to rap over, even though I have huge catalog of tracks amassed over the last 4 or 5 years, some maybe before that on cassettes....I want to know what drives you to produce, whether produce your beats and think they are usable for an emcee or do you produce a beat that might sound good to listen to but and an emcee would find it completely useless to them.......the only reason I ask is a lot my production is based on what people come and ask me for or I specifically produce a beat with some emcee or concept in mind.....and also pay attention to structure etc......when I first started working with artists they would often tell me to drop certain elements, take away busy parts or sounds they were not feeling, loop certain parts and make it usable for their flow and delivery..........now for the most part an emcee should be able to flow over anything with a consistent pattern but that isn't always the case......

1. My question is what drives your production?????

2. Do you conceive an artists concepts and perspective when making your beats and expect them to be used ?


I find that artists can sometimes be VERY picky nowadays too and they either might want strictly acoustic backdrops and sometimes some synthy stuff, singers are usually very picky because they already have a particular type of track or soundscape in mind for the most part if they are skilled...

 

[Greg Savage]

.so again my question is
what drives your production????? and do you conceive an artists concepts and perspective when making your beats and expect them to be used ?

Thats a good Question...

For Me its Art...I love Pictures and i love Music....Remember in the 2nd-8th grade maybe in hS when u were in class and the teach says "What does this Picture tell you about this person" and u would look at the textures the Expressions and the surroundings in the picture and Explain.. well thats what i do with my Music.. i setup Pictures and tell what i See in these Pictures with my Music .. sounds funny.. but it keeps me going..

I like to know alittle something about the Artist im working with.. Race, where there from, fav color, Lifestyle, previous Work.. I pay attention to how they talk how they walk how they shake my hand if they shake my hand.. if they give eye contact, are they talkative? a Bit Secretive? I use common Sense Social Engineering,. takes me a Few minutes and i can basically See what kinda person u are.. and this Helps Me Vibe and Develope Music for this Person... SOunds funny but its how i build Repore with people gotta know the person your workin with to Some Degree right...

do you conceive an artists concepts and perspective when making your beats and expect them to be used

Depends on the artist to be honest with you and how well i know them

 

[massikrbeats]

The creative process is really satisfying to me. I never went to any sound engineering school (most of us probably haven't), however I know more than a little bit about the basics and how to reconstruct it. That's amazing. Looking back at your creation as a whole is overwhelming if you started with a simple sample or drum loop. I think that music, in general, does start with producers to an extent; that's why its special to me...getting equipment, buying software, understanding that all of us have different styles are nice things to consider and enhances my work.

Ahhhhhh.... makin beats

 

[Producer_GyaL]

....I want to know what drives you to produce, whether produce your beats and think they are usable for an emcee or do you produce a beat that might sound good to listen to but and an emcee would find it completely useless to them
1. My question is what drives your production?????

2. Do you conceive an artists concepts and perspective when making your beats and expect them to be used ?

Honestly, in my case, when it comes to sit down and create, it comes naturally. The way i choose my samples and flipped them, i go with emotion. I realize lately that 75% of my stuff in general sound sad. Of course, i dont want to have a catalogue with sad songs only, but i realised lately that i can make a lot of beat when im sad about something. Also, there some beats that i can make in less than 20 minutes and there some beat that i can work on for 3 days. Plenty of time i've try to make music and nothing would come out. So in my opinion, its only naturally for me. When you hear my stuff, you hear what I want, how i feel, how i am. I prefer to show some of my beat to my artists and they decide what they want. Then, after choosing a song, they tell me what they wish to hear or whatever.
Im not a pro, so i dont want to be at the mercy of people. Not for now just yet. This is why my music is a reflect of my soul and thats why i dont want to sell myself..or my music. When i create its personnal. Musically im melancolic. Right now im trying to put this sad issh aside and develop a way to do more happy songs. Even though i work with shopped instruments (sample) i dont feel limited with that technic. I am fortunate to be able to do any style if i want to. My only problem is my drums LOL. Good question BigD.

 

[classic]

I make music purely for the joy.... point blank

I dont expect to get rich doing this(though i will try) but i do it for me. Making music is something i have been doing since i was 5 years old and(god willing if am able) i will countinue to do till the day i die. Its hard to put into words.. but music is just part of me, in all aspects,
from stepping with my fratenitity brothers,
to listeing to headphones while i write code, its invovled in EVERY aspect of my life

Now when i make beats for artist;s i definaly sit down and get their input, and then i create something that meshes my style and their style. But im not really into creating stuff just for the cheese. I dont really need too.(at this point.) Alot of my joints are just created for my listing pleasure also......

Also i think a dope MC can rhyme over anytype of beat(musical or empty) its just a matter of mixing and certain elemetns of the rhymes and the music. I do realise that there are certain times u must add or subtract certain things, but as a whole , if the beat fits the MC, they can make it happen.

I cosingn with gyals ponit also, i dont think u can "force" music


class......

 

[FuzE]

1. My question is what drives your production?????

2. Do you conceive an artists concepts and perspective when making your beats and expect them to be used ?

I think my production is driven by a luv for a bangin beat and a will to make that next hot joint. Its just a passion. When I make a beat it's like i start out with a blindfold on and the beat comes from the inside and starts takin its own direction. I think thats mainly cuz imma chopped up sample beatmaker, i think. I rarely ever cater specifically to what an emcee wants. I make what I feel like is bangin and from that point its up to the artist to check my catalouge and see if there is some thing that fits his vision. I've made many a beatz that catz'll hear and won't jump on it but the next man comes along and will be like WTF lemme git dat!!

 

[Producer X]

My production is driven by just pure nature. I've been doing music most of my life and it's like I can't get away from it even if I tried. As for merging the music with an artist, I have no rules. I create without an artist and let them vibe and let that relationship guide the production of the record. Sometimes I sit down with an artsist and just vibe off of each other and take that energy and create a track right there. Or an artist may have a song and melody and sing the rough idea to me and I'll compose around their melody and arrange harmonies or what ever. (R&B artists are more attracted to my work). But I'll be doing this until my time is up.

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[Producer_GyaL]

i cant stand it when someone is behind me while i produce. This is something im able to do when im alone. If i have a bunch of people in the same room when i produce, it wont lead to something. I cant work this way.

 

[Producer X]

i cant stand it when someone is behind me while i produce. This is something im able to do when im alone. If i have a bunch of people in the same room when i produce, it wont lead to something. I cant work this way.

I used to be that way, but now, I just tone them out. What I hate is when there are people around and they want to start throwing their 2 cents in instead of the letting the track develop. They'd be like, "I don't like this, I don't like that, try this, try that." What I do is get up and offer them my chair and tell them to do it. That shuts them up 9 times out of 10.

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[AMG]

I LOVE music, I LOVE making beats. Hearing other beats drives me to better my skill.

 

[Greg Savage]

They'd be like, "I don't like this, I don't like that, try this, try that." What I do is get up and offer them my chair and tell them to do it. That shuts them up 9 times out of 10.

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LMAO thats funny

 

[RigorMortis]

cant sleep
must warn others

 

[J Rilla]

When I was in High school They way I felt when I would here a Tim beat. Like that was the greatest musical creation i had ever heard. I just want some cat in High school to feel like that from one of my beats one day. That makes me want to make beats.


The only person i really let tell me wher to take a beat while i makin one is my cousin....anybody else basically get escorted out of the room

 

[Shonsteez]

For me - Just simply my constant drive to create keeps me in the captains chair.....Shit, even if i dont want to make a beat i end up just practicing basically to still get the creative blockage moving....Like, if i dont make a beat for a certain amount of time it feels bad, lol.....its like being constipated or something, when u gotta go - u gotta go.....I kno, yer thinking "how the hell u gonna make a metaphor about takin a pooh?"....but its tru, its really how it is - for me anyways......Its almost like a obsession, i cant stop doing it even if i tried....

As far as question number 2: that parts basically a NO. That would all entirely change tho if i was making these beats while working with an artist who would come over and script to these songs on a regular.

 

[kronik12]

for me its if i dont create a beat, then i feel that im no longer a producer

 

[hobgoblin]

I Make beats cos...

I want others to hear the music that I can hear in my head, I'm also a painter so I approach my music the same way i would a painting - I get a collage of material and arrange it in a way that feels right at the time. I have an idea what I want to achieve but the final result always surprises me - i just wish I could leave it alone sometimes cos I often end up destroying a good beat by over cooking it!

Overall I think its a desire to be creative that drives me, and that really does come before anything else - A label A&R guy told me recently my stuff is dope but its too underground sounding and he doesn't know where I'm gonna be able to go with it - I honestly couldnt care less where it goes as long as I'm happy with what I'm doing - The ironic thing is the same guy called me yesterday to ask me to do a remix for one of his artists!

 

[JPeg]

I think me making beats it just a continuation of me drawing pictures I stopped drawing in my mid teens, and the music making fills a similar purpose ie. keeping my brain healthy and keeping the creative thoughts going.

I am trying to make music that gives me a similar feeling that I got from listening to hip hop in the early 90's (but in my own way)

 

[DJ Excellence]

1. What drives my production? I simply want to please myself , simple as that.

2. Me and Artists, we don't generally get along lol, they often be like :"I want a Just Blaze-style beat, or I want a Timbaland beat , etc... " In my opinion this is stupid, ...but if they want a certain atmosphere, bpm,etc... then I take that into consideration.

 

[Ado]

I make beats so that I can have something new to listen to. Lately making beats has just been rolling off the dome.

 

[hobgoblin]

jus a thought

Its interesting a few of us here are into drawing/painting as well...