Creating Rap Beat Tempo

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This is Jose Caban. Mac OSX, Q bass and Reason are all registered trademarks of their respective companies, and I am in no way affiliated with Apple, Propellerhead or Steinberg. Tempo. Okay? Tempo is how fast your beat is. Typically hip hop stuff is in the nineties. Sometimes you'll get some stuff in the eighties, sometimes in the seventies. But it's really slow stuff in the seventies. Typically it's in the nineties, though. And you'll probably go as high as a hundred and six sometimes. Typically, though, most hip hop is in the nineties. I'm doing our song in ninety-six BPM. That's Beats per Minute. Okay? The way you time it is, it really is what it says it is: beats per minute. So let's take for instance if we look at our clock here, click, click, click. This is sixty beats per minute because it's clicking at one-sixtieth of a minute. Just like the second hand. If we double it, that's one-twenty, okay? Now, if you want one and a half to get our ninety, you're going to go click. That's about one and a half. That's our ninety. That's how you can tell what beats per minute a song is. Okay, now we are also working not only in ninety-six BPM, but in four-four tempo. What that means, is that there are four beats to every bar, or measure. If you think about many of the music programs you've seen, they have, like, units inside the sequence, and those units are usually typically a measure. A measure- typically most things are four-four time. What that means is for that each group, you have four beats. So it'll be going one, two, three, four. Second, two, three, four. Third measure, two, three, four. Fourth measure, two. And you go all the way down your line, all the down to the end of the song.

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