4 Ways To Know If A Beat Selling Website is Legit
Are you a budding music artist who’s just getting started and looking for quality instrumentals online? Are you looking to find a website that you can trust and come back to over and over again for radio ready instrumentals? Are you looking for a producer or beat maker who is professional and friendly? If this sounds like you I am going to give you 4 tips on how to know if a beat website is safe to buy beats from.
The internet is a place where more and more producers and beat makers are gathering to allow new music artists to come and buy their beats. There are hundreds and hundreds of beat selling websites online that cater to artists who have the talent but may not have a very big budget to buy instrumentals. With that being said, there are also many beat websites that aren’t set up properly and may make music artist’s second guess when it comes to purchasing an instrumental from some of these sites.
First you need to be able to find a “FAQ” page on a beat website to answer some of your questions you may have if you are unclear on anything that is promoted on the website. You should be able to read everything clearly and precisely. If you have any questions there should be a way to get in contact with the producer of the beats you are interested in. You should be able to contact that beat maker via an email address or contact form on the site.
Secondly, never trust a beat selling website that doesn’t have any information about the producer. You should look for a “bio” page or some type of information that makes you feel like this producer or beat maker is tangible. Make sure this website is “welcoming”. What I mean by that is, when you go to a regular store, you want to know that there is someone there to greet you and make you feel warm and welcomed.
The third tip is, when you first come onto the website it should let you know exactly what you are getting yourself into. You shouldn’t have to browse around to figure out if it is or isn’t a beat selling website. You should automatically know what products are offered.
Last, check to see if there is a place where you can sign up for their news letters. Most sites have a place where you can do that at so you can get emails (not spam) on the regular to let you know whats new on the site. It is a bonus for a beat selling website to have this feature so you the artist will always remember them when you need instrumentals.
So the next time you are online looking for instrumentals keep these tips in mind so that you will feel more comfortable with buying from that site regularly.
3 Tips on How To Become a Popular Music Artist
In today’s fast paced music industry you are sure to run into the task of searching for a producer who can feed you HOT beats! It quickly becomes tiring when you have the job of looking for a good beat maker that has the style of instrumentals you are looking for. Thats why I am going to give you three tips on how to become a top selling arist in no time.
The first tip is to get to a computer and check out some producers online. There are several beat makers who post up their beats daily for you the artist to get your hands on. The beats are all of about $19.00 and if you find a professional producer, they will have a licsence agreement to go with the beats you buy. There are all kinds of beat makers who have huge arsinals of instrumentals online that you can go through.
Tip number two is to find a personal producer that you can get into contact with that can work with you individually. I know you are thinking how hard that seems but there are many producers and beat makers who make a living off of working with artists one on one for the artists next album or mixtape. You can also find these type of producers and beat makers right here online!
Tip number three is to go out to open mics in your local area! There is no greater way to get noticed locally then to go out and hit the town. Its so important for music artists to get up in front of crowds and perform so that they can not only get use to crowds, but they can slowly build up a fan base locally.
So there you have it! Find HOT beats, get yourself your own personal producer, and go perform locally! Becoming a top selling music artist has never been easier! Now of course there are more things you have to take care of as you become more and more popular, but by taking these steps and getting your feet wet is the first step to greatness! For more info please visit: www.startannerproductions.com
How To Write A Song
Keep in mind there is no one set way of learning how to write a song, every songwriter has a different process, but for the sake of the beginner I’m going to explain one way how to write songs. Then as you begin to write more and more you will find your own method that works best for you.
Step 1. What do you want to write about?
Before you start messing around with chords and melodies, Ii is helpful to have an idea of what you want to write about, this will help you stay focused on one subject and keeps your song from veering off into too many directions.
You should be able to sum up what your song is about in one short sentence. For example, “A relationship that’s on the rocks” or “cheating girlfriend, begging for me back”.
Knowing what theme your song is based around is the first step in learning how to write a song, it will help with the future steps of choosing chords and melodies. For instance, if your song is sad you would tend to use more minor chords and melodies constructed using the minor scale.
Step 2. Get A Chord Progression
So now that you know what you want to write about it’s time to get a chord progression together. You have two options.
1. Play the same chords for the entire song i.e. same chords for verse, chorus etc.
or
2. Play different chords for verse, chorus, bridge etc.
Both options work perfectly and many successful songs have been written using both methods.
Step 3. Creating A Melody
Try to write your melody, well at least a rough version of your melody out first. The reason for this is that when you have a melody sometimes the lyrics just write themselves, certain words have a natural rhythm and melodic tone.
Coming up with a melody is easy enough. Just play your chord progression and hum notes over it. You start to hear a melodic phrase come to life. Sometimes it might take a couple of re-writes but keep at it until you find something you’re happy with.
Step 4. Add lyrics To Your Melody
It’s time to bring your melody to life by adding lyrics which is in your own hands and imagination.
Learning how to write a song is a very individual process so just trust your process and let your creativity flow. There is no right or wrong way of how to write a song so just practice different songwriting techniques and with time, trial and error, you will find your own way of writing songs.
How Artists Can Build A Home Studio From Scratch!
You want to record those great tunes you’ve written right? You have a band project going and you need a place to record your work? You got the material, but you need to record that demo for the record companies?
Well, building your own recording studio is a great place to start.
When you’re based on computer recording, good audio recording software is essential. You need software that doesn’t use up all the resources in your computer, but still has the power to get the job done.
You should look for audio recording software featuring:
Great quality, low latency, audio recording (16 bit, 24 bit or 32-bit-float at frequency 41000 Hz or higher)
Low latency midi recording (support for ASIO drivers)
Good mixing capabilities (i.e. multi tracking)
Good plugin support (VST/DX software synths and samplers, effects plugins)
Good Mixdown/Export capabilities (you should be able to export your final mix/recording to a high quality audio file which you can burn onto a CD, ship to a record company and get the deal of your dreams!)
Now onto the audio recording software:
In my opinion these are the most important things to look for in audio recording software.
The sound card (a.k.a. audio interface, sound interface) is one of the most important parts in your recording studio computer.
Audio interfaces handle the input and output of audio (and midi) to and from your computer. A few pieces of advice here on what to look for in a good audio interface for recording purposes.
The following benefits are what you should get out of great audio cards:
Support of great audio quality, both input and output.(24 bit, 96000 Hz, high quality audio)
Capability of low latency sustained recording of both audio and midi.
If you intend to use recording software like Cubase SX, the sound interface has to support ASIO drivers.
Among the variety of audio interfaces I can recommend the M-AUDIO Audiophile 24/96 for any home recording environment.
In recent years the USB and Firewire external audio interfaces have grown to be of good quality as well. So if you plan on using your laptop as a studio computer, or you simply don’t have any PCI slots to spare in your computer, this would be the way to go.
All of this information listed above can be very helpful when starting to build your very own home studio.
I suggest taking things a step further,by doing more research after you have read this article.
What Music Artists Need To Know About Mixing And Mastering Their Tracks Down.
After you’ve recorded the perfect song, you’re only halfway there! Mixing is where the magic really happens, and where the most of your time is likely to be spent. Getting the perfect mix is a challenge, but with this information, professional quality mixing equipment at home, and will power, this will be completely within your reach!
Keep in mind that mastering goes hand-in-hand with mixing. The truth is, if your song is mixed poorly, most likely amateur level mastering isn’t going to do any good for it – in fact, it probably makes it even worse.
So before starting to experiment with mastering, you need to learn to mix. Your song needs to sound as good and balanced as possible before going to the mastering stage .The thing is, professional mastering makes great sounding mix to sound outstanding.There are a wide range of VST plugins that can be used for mastering: brickwall limiters, single band compressors, multiband compressors, equalizers, stereo enhancers etc. and there’s even a bunch of presets to get you started. I have to say though that there really isn’t a “one button solution” or “setting that fits for all” -quick fix for mastering. Each mix is different and that’s why the mastering tools needs to be chosen and tweaked according the situation – everything depends on the audio material you have and what you wan’t to achieve with the mastering. That defines the tools and settings you need to use. Sometimes, you may just need a little help of a limiter in the master channel to do the job for you and if you can make your mix sound good with it, it’s ok. The thing is, you just need to learn to use your ears.
Lot of producers and professionals say that mastering should be left to mastering engineers and that you shouldn’t master your songs by yourself if you don’t know what you’re doing. I agree, because mastering engineers have the skills, professional equipment, right kind of listening environment (which is ESSENTIAL), trained ears and usually a years of experience so they pretty much know what can be done (if any) to enhance the quality of your mix. But let’s say you don’t have a professional engineer around and you need your music complete? You have to start somewhere and my suggestion is that you research as much information that you can about mixing your tracks down.
There are several programs like fruity loops, pro tools, and audacity, to name a few, that allow you to mix your tracks down perfectly. If you need help on using these programs, I suggest choosing one and start messing around in that program and get some books on it. Once you get the hang of mastering your own tracks there will be nothing you cannot do!
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