Creating Bass Lines for a Rap Beat

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Summary: Making and using a bass line in a rap or hip hop beat. Learn what you need and how to create rap beats in this free video on music, instrumentation, and sampling.

Views: 807 | Tags: make, create, beats, hip, hop, rap, sampling, djs, deejays, instrumental

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Jose Caban Jose Caban is the President of LightFace Media. He has a B.S. from West Liberty State in Music/Business/Communications. Caban is constantly furthering his edu... read more

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Creating Bass Lines for a Rap Beat

This is Jose Caban. MacOSX, Reason and Cue Bass are registered trademarks of their respective companies and I am in no way affiliated with Apple, Propeller head or Steinberg. Now we're going to go ahead and feed our bass in there. We've got our drums done, let's go ahead and try to add a bass to this thing. Now remember, it's going to sound like a piano but that's because that's what we're putting in but we're feeding in midi data not audio, so that program will record that midi data and then we'll be able to make it any type of instrument we want after that. So here's our beat, that's the beat we made. I'm thinking something like... Yeah like that right there. I have decided instead of sending the midi back to the keyboard to get more traditional sounds such as a piano a saxophone or anything like that. I'm going to send the midi data back in to Reason so we can use some of those synthesizers that Reason has to offer and get a more digital modern sound. That's what I'm looking for, for this beat so that's what we're going to do.