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How to create music
in Rap ?

Turnable

Serves as the guitar of the Hip Hop music, turntables are also used for Rap music where the Hip Hop actually came from.

With turntables, a musician can manipulate the records to produce a different outtake or perspective from existing material. If you are familiar with the scratching technique by moving the record forward and backward, it’s only the turntable that has the ability to produce that distinct sound.

Computer
While a computer isn’t actually a musical instrument per se, it helps producers and artists to utilize computer programs that can put tones and melodies into a single. It gives an artist the ability to mix and match the beats, samples, turntabling and vocals previously recorded to make an all-new composition.

However, in this modern-day, the Hip Hop industry also uses software that has the ability to produce sound and patches. This software can fulfill the roles of the following instrument:

  • - The percussion perspective which usually utilizes drums to produce a steady tempo.

  • - The harmony area that usually uses piano or guitar and plays underneath every composition.

  • - The bass that can either be a bass guitar or patch and serves as the bottom notes of the chords.

The rise of this software has led artists to form a band or become a soloist because you won’t need to have drums, guitar, piano, bass and singer to produce the music. All you need to have is the knack and guts in producing a composition that would be patronized by the public and create the last song syndrome. While the rise of technology led for some aspects of our lives easier, you can never go wrong in looking back and utilizing the instruments that made Hip Hop popular today.

Violin
While violins aren’t commonly used for Hip Hop genre, many artists are now incorporating it in their music. Some even play cover songs using other string instruments such as cello and viola. Combining it with samplers and other mixing devices, playing the violin in this genre makes it more creative and produces a more original sound.

Sampler
Working as a synthesizer, the sampler is a digital device producing the loops for the producer instead of the musician producing the sound again manually through a turntable. Through this method, the producer can produce the exact sound a musician did in his composition that has more precision compared to the manual method.

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