Putting Guitar in a Rap Beat

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Summary: Using guitars to make 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.

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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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Putting Guitar in 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 pretty much everything in there that we want but I definitely want to put in some live instrument in there. So, we're going to go ahead and use the guitar. Now if you notice as I told you before, the guitar doesn't have a pickup in it. So, we're going to be actually recording real audio, no midi here, through the real acoustics coming out of the guitar. So, you want to point your microphone at the hole in the guitar, and we're going to put our microphone up here instead of down here at about a forty-five degree angle because we want to pick up the higher accenting tones of this guitar instead of the lower acoustics. Now remember you don't want to have the music playing over the speakers when you're doing this you want the music in your headphones another reason why you want a good mixer to separate the signals, that way the microphone is only picking up the guitar and it's not picking up the beat in the background. But, for the purposes of this editorial I'm playing it over so you can hear it all together so now we're going to go ahead and feed in our guitar. Okay, so, we've got that in. Stop our beat. We've got the guitar part in there, I played a couple different rifts that I wanted to hear that I thought sounded good with it. We're going to go back now and do some editing, we're going to do some basic putting things together and start changing the dynamics and the way we put the things in and really start to put our beat together, but that pretty much concludes any instrumentation that we are going to put in.