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What Is & How Do You Use Compression (Properly) Making Hip Hop Beats?

September 1, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Quick Word From Our Announcer – SKC.com – Intromercial Everybody wants to be a Hip Hop Music Producer but very few are committed to learning as much as they can about the art form, not on my blog though. This is just a basic overview of the [...]

Tagged as: Avalon, Beat Making Tips, Compressor, Compressors, Gain, How To Make Beats, Mixing, Music, Music Production, Phat, Propellerheads, Reason, Sony, vintage

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Jay Z – Show Me What You Got – (Played Live On Beat Machine) – Video

September 1, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Quick Word From Our Announcer – SKC.com – Intromercial This guy name is David “Fingers” Haynes and he does an excellent job at creating & improvising on beat machines with his fingers (freestylin). Your eye & hand coordination has to be off the chart to even move [...]

Tagged as: AKAI, Beat Making Videos, Beat Tips, Dr. Dre, Drums, freestylin, hip hop music producer, hot music, How To Make Beats, Jay, MPC, Producer, Production, song, Study, study music theory

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What Is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – The Full Story – Part 4

September 1, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Quick Word From Our Announcer – SKC.com – Intromercial As we learned in “What Is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – Part 3” Negro Slaves created modern western music and laid the foundation for all the great genres to follow such as Hip Hop. The Birth [...]

Tagged as: African American, Albert King, Allen Toussiant,   Mahalia Jackson, Bo Diddley, Buddy, Dr. John, George W. Johnson, Guy, Hip Hop History, John Lee Hooker, Mamie Smith, Meters, Miss Mahalia Jackson, Morton, Music Producer, Negro, Professor, Rap, Rapper, Shawnna, Sidney Bechet, Singer, Slaves, Storyville, Thomas A. Dorsey

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Hip Hop Samples & Making MP3′s Sound Like VINYL (Chopping Samples To Sound Like A Record)

August 31, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Quick Word From Our Announcer – SKC.com – Intromercial Chopping Hip Hop Samples & Making Them Sound Like VINYL If you a Hip Hop Lover and Music Producer That Doesn’t Believe in Using Nothing but Vinyl, My Hat is tipped off to you Sir & Madame, no [...]

Tagged as: AKAI, Beat Making Tips, Computer, DirectX, Gain, Hip Hop Samples, How To Make Beats, IZOTOPE, logic, Mix, MPC, Music Producer, Music Production, Music Software, outlet, Player, plugin, power, Production, purist, Record, RTAS, studio, technique, Technology, tracking, Turntable

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Boon Doc aka Bonnie Mayfield (Black Tuesday) – Beat Making Video

August 30, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Quick Word From Our Announcer – SKC.com – Intromercial Remember, its not the Equipment (software / hardware) you use,it’s the man behind the board that makes the music hot when its all said and done! – Shawn K. Castille Here is a video by a very talented [...]

Tagged as: AKAI, Beat Making, Beat Making Tips, Beat Making Videos, Bonnie Mayfield, Boon Doc, Equipment, FL Studio, Fruity Loops, Funk, gadget, Jazzy, Jeff, Loops, Production, Recording, software, Soul

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What Is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – The Full Story – Part 3

August 30, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] A Quick Word From Our Announcer – SKC.com – Intromercial As we learned in “What Is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – Part 2” previously, West Africa Is the Starting Point of the Evolution of Music in America as we now enjoy it. What I am about [...]

Tagged as: African, Art Forms, Beat Making, BIRTH, Blues, Bounce, Choreography, Congo Square, culture, Dance, dancing, Gospel, Hip, Hip Hop, Hip Hop History, Hop, Little, Music, Music Producer, Musicians, Negro, New Orleans, Rap

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What Is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – The Full Story – Part 2

August 26, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] What is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – The Full Story – Chapter 1 Ok, if you are going to learn about the evolution of Hip Hop Music in America, you must first realize that Hip Hop is not a completely original Art Form. That’s correct from [...]

Tagged as: Beat Making, BIRTH, Bounce, culture, Hip, Hip Hop, Hop, Music, Music Producer, Rap

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Propellerhead Reason 5.0 and Record 1.5 (DAW) Released Today!

August 26, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Man, things & time move so fast! Propellerhead Reason 5.0 & Record 1.5 is out for all you beat making junkies. Reason has been one of my favorite Music Production programs for awhile and it’s good to see their back out on the streets with something new for [...]

Tagged as: Bass, Beat, Beat Making, Beats, Cubase, DAW, Designer, Dr. Octo, Dr. Rex, Hats, Hip, Hop, Kong, Music, Music On Your Computer, Music Producer, Music Software, Musician, Nano Sample, NN-Nano, NN-XT, Nurse REX Player, OCTAGON, Propellerhead, Reason, Record, ReDrum, Rex, Rex Player, Sampler, Steinberg, Synth

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How To Make A Hip Hop Beat? (Typical Hip Hop Song Structure)

August 26, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Hip Hop Beat Making 101 – How Do You Build Beats (Newbie’s) Hip Hop Beat Making / Music Producer Tips / Beat Tips When you are first getting into hip hop music production, learning how to structure your beats (patterns / sequences) is real difficult if you don’t [...]

Tagged as: artist, Beat Making, Beats, Cubase, Electronic, Fruity, Hip, Hip Hop, Hop, Loops, Music, Music Producer, Producer, Rap, Reason

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What Is Hip Hop? Hip Hop History 101 – The Full Story – Part 1

August 25, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If you want to be Authentic & a part of Hip Hop Culture as a Music Producer doing Music Production in all its modern ways you’re on the right blog. If you want to develop skills & get an edge (education is an edge) on other music producers [...]

Tagged as: Beat Making, BIRTH, Bounce, culture, Hip, Hip Hop, Hop, Music, Music Producer, Rap

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DJ (Hip Hop Music Producer) – Disko Dave “Smile Again” Beat Making Video

August 24, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Beat Making Video For Hip Hop Heads This is a cool video of DJ Disko Dave playing back some chopped samples on his AKAI MPC 200oxl. I have posted other videos from this cat because he is true to Hip Hop & the culture even though he may [...]

Tagged as: AKAI, Beat Making, Beat Making Tips, Beat Making Videos, Blaze, culture, Ellaskin, Kanye, MPC, N.O. ID, Producer, Sampling, Ty Fye, Vinyl, West, Wonder

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DJ (Music Producer) – Swizz Beats – YRB Magazine (Art Issue)

August 24, 2010
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Beat Making Tips, Beat Making for Hip Hop Music Producers If you are not familiar with Hip Hop you are probably wondering why I put “DJ” Swizz Beats up here. Well, just like DJ Premier, Arsonist from the Heat Makerz, Dr. Dre, Mannie Fresh, 9th Wonder, Just Blaze [...]

Tagged as: Beat Making, Beat Making Tips, Beats, Beatz, Dr. Dre, Mannie, Mary J. Blige, Shawn K. Castille, Swizz, YRB

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