Working With Rap Beats.

As a Hip Hop artist, rapper, Emcee or simply MC, you will need quality Rap Beats.

Unless you know a great producer you will have to look around to find awesome beats. Asking around in your community for up and coming producers is a great option. They need you as much as you need them. But how do you find these producers. Try look  around in high schools or other educational places. Go to local Hip Hop Battles and ask around. If you are not ready to battle yourself, no problem. If you are having a hard time finding a good producer another great option is to look online for rap beats. This can be an extremely quick and convenient way of finding yourself some top quality beats, and you will be able to simply search whilst you shop online, or read up on the latest poker news. This is a great way to source the perfect rap beats if networking in person isn’t an easy option. Some of them cost money, like $20 or so, but you can often find free Rap Beats if you sign up as a member of the site. Here at Free Hip Hop Beats you will get a Free Rap Beat just for signing up. If you need more beats you can also go to http://beats.free-hiphopbeats.com and fill out an easy survey. Once it’s filled out you get to download another Rap beat for free.

What Makes Great Rap Beats?

Great Rap Beats is all depending on the emcee. The emcee needs to connect to the rap beat in order for magic to happen. What constitute a great Rap Beat for one artist might be a terrible one for another. That’s why we need a good selection of beats to serve everyone. Obviously we can’t give away all our rap beats for free, after all we do need to make some money to keep this site alive and keep making new beats. So if you don’t feel any of the free beats here, try checkin’ out the paid beats HERE. I am pretty sure you will find something you like. Right now there is actually a sale going on so you save 75% if you buy today.

Editing Rap Beats.

If the rap beat you are working with does not fit you rap, there is always the option of editing the beat.

It is not as hard as you think to edit rap beats. Here is a short tutorial using cubase.

First open cubase. The drag and drop your rap beat onto the arranger window. Cubase will automatically make a new track with the rap beat. Drag the beat so it starts at bar 1. If there is a little bit of silence in front of the Rap beat make sure to remove that by zooming in and drag the left corner to the start of the audio wave. First you need to find the tempo of the rap beat. Loop 4 bars from bar one to bar five. Listen to what happens when the cursor goes back to bar one. If it happens too soon you need to slow down the tempo. Once the transition is smooth you have found the right tempo. Now set the quantize to bars. You can now simply cut and paste in your rap beat and move pieces around to fit you rap. It might sound complicated but it is actually really easy once you tried it a few times.

Good luck with your rap beats.