Creating Melody for a Rap Beat

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Summary: How to make a melody for 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: 861 | 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 Melody for a Rap Beat

This is Jose Caban. Mac OSX, Reason and Cue Bass are registered trademarks with their respective companies and I am in no way affiliated with Apple, Propellerhead or Steinberg. So now we've got our bass, we've got our drums, I think we're going to put in some sort of melodic lead in this. That's basically the background music. It's all background music, 'cause we're not doing any solos for this beat. So even though it's background music we still need some kind of lead some kind of melody that overpowers all the rest. So we've got our bass we've got our drums let's go ahead and work on some sort of melody. Let's go ahead and play the bass with drums. Right ok, so we're looking around here somewhere. So now we've got something in there. Don't be afraid to just record, whenever you're making stuff just record, record, record. Because you can always cut it out, that's the beauty of what we do in the modern digital age. You can always cut it out so don't be afraid to just put as much as you like in there, go back through, listen to it, pick out pieces you like and use those pieces.