8/02/2011

Looking For The Perfect Beat Loop

By Julian Walls


Each beat producer out there is searching for one thing, the perfect beat. Of course, no-one wants to find the perfect beat just once, they would like to find the formula for the ideal beat, making something urgent, every time they start up their sequencing software.

Of course, what the perfect beat looks like changes over a period of time. Like everything else in music, things don't stand still for long, if in any way. So , the concept of hunting for the ideal beat could be a search that goes on indefinitely, whether or not you find you have reached perfection, or neared it, from time to time.

But what makes the perfect beat loop. Is it invention? Is it the way a vocal fits over it? Is it the way that it gracefully develops or changes around a hook? Obviously all of these things are crucial, if you are looking for perfection. Any producer who needs to make the ultimate beat will have to have these things, in order to maximize the prospects of hitting perfection.

Clearly, there are methods of making it much more likely that perfection is hit. For example, ensuring that you're learning your software inside out, checking out any new ideas that come to you and focusing on other music, both the classics and the new stuff that others are doing.

At the same time, you want to avoid duplicating others, maintain your mixing skills and get the most out of the artists you're employed with. Getting input from vocalists, for example, can make a really positive effect on how your beats work, in truth, sitting on a track.

It is also pretty important to get the balance right, when it comes to self criticism. You don't want to be so imperative that it stops you trying new things; on the other hand, if you're not critical enough, it can be tricky to reach a point of perfection. When you make beats it is totally full of that kind of tightrope walking.




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