Friday, September 2, 2011

Hunting For The Ideal Beat Loop

By Julian Walls


Every beat producer out there's hunting for one thing, the ideal beat. Naturally, nobody wants to find the ideal beat just once, they want to find the formula for the perfect beat, creating something imperative, everytime they start up their sequencing software.

Naturally, what the ideal beat looks like changes over a period. Like anything else in music, things don't stand still for very long, if at all. Hence the idea of searching for the perfect beat can be a search that goes on indefinitely, regardless of whether you find you've 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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