Two pal of mine, both about 10 years younger than me, Allen and Ronnie always enjoyed to argue about rap music with me. Especially when it was about hip hop beats.
They knew I had been making beats for several years and they were contemplating to also enter music production so they make a little bit of money selling their beats.
Only they had different ways on how to go about getting a beat maker studio started.
Ronnie’s big beat studio aspiration
Ronnie was more inclined to spend lots of money to get his hands on the most popular beat making equipment. So he started to slowly to get his home studio assembled. You see, Ronnie was always thrilled when flipping at the pages of those glossy electronic music equipment magazines.
He always had stories about what beat making hardware equipment this or that famous hip hop producers used to do this or that hit beat. He thought that sophisticated and expensive rap beat maker equipment guaranteed great beats.
Allen, the modest beatmaker
Allen’s dream to make beats was no less than his friendBut he wasn’t ready to spend every dime for it. Allen simply sign up to an online beat creator. He only paid a onetime access fee that was less expensive than his bus pass.
Allen beat making skills skyrocketed very fast. He was able to create beats online using good quality sounds, mix them, and save lots of them in his computer.
He created dozens of great beats. He uploaded his music on his MySpace page and his blog. He ended up selling most of them to rappers who were desperately looking for freshbeats.Some of them were to work with a rap producer and were happy to have discovered Allen.
He even quickly started to experiment reggaeton and dance music production.This gladly made him become the main guy also for many wanna be female artists.
All the while, Ronnie was still struggling to get the first piece of his studio together, a drum machine that later cost him over two dollars.
How Ronnie and Allen ended up
Both Ronnie and Allen ended up being good bet makers. But the early learning of the beat making process and the early experience gained from working with singers made Allen a complete producer much much faster.
What they both learned from the earlier disagreement was that with today’s online tools, expensive music equipment is not automatically synonymous with success or making the best music.
Pricey studio equipment may still be out of reach for most aspiring hip hop producers, but not those {online beat creator sites where you can quickly learn to make great beats.
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