Essential Guide On How To Buy Beats And Instrumentals: The Bass

By Delroy Wilkins


Hip hop ranks among the most sought after and listened to music genres regardless of age. Hip hop has been around for quite sometime and, has been evolving over the years. Despite having changed with time, early hip hop and contemporary hip hop share one thing in common, energy. Hip hop is one of the music genres exhibiting high energy.

During its evolution, one major change in hip hop is the way it's created. Technological changes, especially the use of computers connected to music production equipment, has enabled creation of beats that would not have been created in the past. Computers have enabled the creation of unique supporting sounds and effects through a couple of mouse clicks. Professional producers are now able to use both instruments and equipment to easily create unique beats people love to listen to. Technology might have accelerated the changes in hip hop music creation. However, one thing has not changed is the use of bass. Bass forms an important component of the hip hop beat. If you intend to create hip hop beats that every hip hop lover will appreciate, you must learn at least the basics of using bass when producing beats.

For hip hop songs, bass is used to create their structure. Bass is used in hip hop to bring harmony within the song giving the beat some sense. A hip hop track without bass simply is not great to listen to. It is not uncommon for listeners to try to add some bass in a hip hop track that was not created with bass. The beat will simply be unpopular to the listener.

There are two main ways of adding bass to your beats. First is the rhythmic bass. This method can be used to incorporate the bass element throughout the track. The second is the sustained beat. This is usually incorporated in parts of the beat to keep it going.

While there may be two categories that the bass fits into in hip hop, there are many variations that can be used to change the way that bass sounds. If you use the techniques of layering, stretching and by changing the note, the sounds of your bass will be different throughout your tracks.

The most effective way of incorporating bass within a beat is moving one step after the other. Start with the raw bass sound and then change its sound one tone at a time. This way, you will be able to identify the bass sound that you want within your beat more easily.




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