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Question by Niki: What are some heavy-beat hip hop songs?
I am choreographing a hip hop routine and I am looking for a song that has strong beats and a fast tempo. Any ideas? Thanks! =)

Best answer:

Answer by Hulkzilla
Check out this song:

Hustler ‘Til I Die – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBgPNDoPYKI

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Question by Alex S: What do I need to make professional hip hop beats?
I have a macbook, logic studio 8 and an AKAI MPK 49. I want to be able to make beats and save them on my computer and send them to people via email. How can I start doing this?

Best answer:

Answer by LAIF
heres a good resource:

http://www.futureproducers.com/forums/

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Question by JOSH!: What is the best place to download free hip hop beats?
I want some beats to write music to. I write slower songs like the artist grieves.
please and thank you.
On the piff site, how do i find beats without people already singing on the track?

Best answer:

Answer by maximumride♥
you can most likely get them on downloads.nl or 4shared.com

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AllHipHop.com: Did you play that for your dad? Was there a time where he didn't take the beats seriously? Scoop Deville: He was very supportive. When he bought my first computer, he was telling everybody that his son could make beats.
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Article by Andrew Mark

Music Beat Making Software

Regular music can be effectively used to create sensations in hearts with the application of Music beat making software. Music works and meditates along with the beats it has.Music evolves and so as the manner of creating it. Music beat maker had dramatically improved compared to ancient times. If people of before are only contemplating on trees to create a sound maker, people of today had devised a convenient way of creating their own music.Even computers are capable of creating dynamic sounds and music. Mixing sounds for a project is not that hard nowadays. Not now that we have beat maker for computers and music production software as an aid. Dub Turbo makes it easy for us to make other people admire our taste of music as they listen to the music that we have created. No wonder a lot of music stars rise these days. There exist boom box, turn tables and computer applications such as DUB TURBO. This software has an ability to create such a sensational beats. For music passionate it is a tool to deliver the creativity they have by creating extraordinary beats.

When it comes to ON track editing of sound and production of awesome beats, This software is a full package with all technically sound features. Following are the specifications about Dub Turbo Software.Dub Turbo will make you feel as a leader of your Orchestra, with all sound controls in your hands. It comprises of such an effective tools that one could create soulful beats of own imaginations. Track Sequencer is another effective and prominent tool that comes along with Dub Turbo. Track sequencer eases in synchronization and production of music. To produce a quality and unique music beats, Dub Turbo software is a right selection. The another aspect of this software is its ease to use. One need not to spent its quality time in good sound production. It has simple functionality that saves time and efforts. Music beat making software’s are always very much helpful in creating best music in quality time. Actually, in my views beat making software’s ex cogitates space to create own imaginative and creative music beats. Due to technological advancement along with time music also gained strength.

Music has tendency to attract anybody towards its beats. Some spend time to hear music when they are distressed and some when they are in joyful mood. Keeping in that mind, Music beat making software’s are getting enough attention. Since one could use his/her creative hands over music beat making software’s to create music of their own choices.

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If you have just recently realized that you want to become good with creating unique and new meats for the type of music that you love, there are certainly a beat making software perfect for all the beginners out there. This article will give you some of the things that you need to look for most especially when it is your first time in picking a particular software that will benefit you in a lot of ways.

First of all, checking what the quality of sound you will get from these programs is a must because this is what will matter most about the music that you will create – the quality. You do not want your music to sound like a monophonic tone just like the ones included in the first models of a mobile phone.

You definitely want your music to turn out just like what all the other music playing on the radio and even on television. Next to determining the quality of sound that a program will be able to provide you, it is also important for you to figure out if it is also easy to us; after all, you will not be able to create great music without learning how to run the program.

Choose a program that you will definitely be able to manipulate even though you are just a beginner in this kind of beat making hobby. Aside from all the other mentioned things you need to look for, it is also important for you to make sure that the program has all the features that you are really looking for in a beat making program.

You surely do not want to regret choosing a particular program just because you are not able to do the things you want to do with your music. Lastly, make sure that the program will allow you to share the music that you have created with other people; after putting all your effort and hard work into it, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to let others listen to what you have accomplished?

With all these things mentioned, it shouldn’t be a hard task to choose the perfect beat making software for a beginner like you.

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