Reading a book is very easy but writing one is very tough. Anyone can read it but very few people can write it. Similarly, listening to music is easy and entertaining thing that also helps in relieving stress but composing music could be really stressful. Moreover, reader would read your book if it keeps him hooked, if story is good in beginning and becomes nonsense somewhere in middle; it would not get good response. Similarly, a song would not get the deserved success if only lyrics are good but hip hop drum beats are weak.

Making drum beats is an art and it begins with understanding the drum kit (instrument that is responsible for generating them). Whether you use live or online drum-set for creating hip hop drum beats, parts as well as functions remain same. Core drums have three most essential parts: Snare, Hi-hat, Bass drum (biggest and most bad).

There could also be some other parts but you are going to use these three over 90% of time while making drum beats. You must understand how all these works and you can do that by listening to sounds that are produced by them and then distinguish characteristics of their beats. You need to find what each of them may contribute while you’re trying to make good music. If you are searching for an affordable as well as convenient method of making hip hop drum beats, then you would be glad to know that you can find one online. Live kit is also very good but you need more time along with money as well as practice.

Tags : Hip Hop, Music, Rap Groups

With the rise in popularity and hence, commercialism of the hip-hop subculture nowadays, the urban lifestyles various facets have naturally been pushed into the mainstream. Not without the help of MTV and its various offshoots, a lifestyle that just a few years ago was still underground is now common fodder for soft-drink commercials, billboard ads and even NBA games. It’s not uncommon nowadays to ask a 50 year old Caucasian farmer from the Midwest who The Fresh Prince is and get a correct answer.

It’s only natural then that the street arts that make-up the backbone of hip-hop has also gained international pop attention. Graffiti writing, break-dancing, rapping and beat-boxing used to be confined to the urban ghettos of the main cities of America like New York and Los Angeles. Now spray-painted (aerosol) art can be seen on the walls of Berlin, national break-dancing competitions in Seoul are televised globally, and rappers are a dime a dozen in the cities of the Philippines. One can truly say hip-hop has gone pop when Iraqi kids scramble to get their hands on posters of 50cent. The saying “music knows no boundaries” becomes a colossal understatement indeed in light of this.

‘Deejaying’ or the more accurate term- turntablism, is one of the last nuances of hip-hop to come out of the urban jungles of America. DJ Babu of the world-famous Beat Junkies (an award-winning turntablist crew) defines a turntablist as “one who uses the turntable in the spirit of a musical instrument”. Still, a more detailed definition- “a musician: a hip-hop disc jockey who in a live/spontaneous situation can manipulate or restructure an existing phonograph recording to produce or express a new composition that is unrecognizable from its original ingredients.” The word hip-hop was said to have been coined from the way early turntablists ‘hopped’ from one turntable to another in a ‘hip’ fashion during live shows with rappers. Indeed, the DJ has come a long way from being a rapper’s sidekick during hip-hop’s infancy. Now they can be seen playing in rock bands like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Incubus- packing stadiums throughout the globe with their fusion of rock and hip-hop music.

Tags : Deejaying, Hip Hop, Turntablism