Selling Mixtapes – It’s All In The Marketing Most people don’t know what marketing truly means, they get images of telemarketers harassing them day in and day out. This is completely false and a stereotype that has been out there for decades. What a true marketer does is communicate value through a product or service [...]…
Meditation & Mindset Techniques For Rappers and Singers As a rapper, singer, or producer coming up in the music game our focus is first on the quality of music of course. Second in that list would probably be marketing and promotion to push your records out to your fan base. But I firmly believe there [...]…
Upcoming Rappers and The Music Industry. The music industry is one of the most profitable business models in the entire world. It is also one of the most ruthless and cutthroat. For a lot of rappers, growing up on tough blocks this mentality of the corporate world is very familiar to them. The difference between [...]…
I grew up listening to plenty of music growing up and I always preferred a little dirty – analog grit in my mixes. So a lot of my mixes in the past and in the present try to represent that era before digital cleanness. What I have came to the realization lately is that in [...]…
Most rappers who do music at home have only 1 option – mixing a track by themselves. This can lead to disastrous results if you don’t know what your doing. When I first started I just applied what everyone said they did – Compression, Limiting, EQ, ect. – Using presets from other people. Some times [...]…
(This is continuation of another article I did for EzineArticles) Waves Doubler This by far is one of my favorite plugins I own. I apply it to mixing my beats but a trick learned from the great Dave Pensado is taking the Waves Doubler and putting it on a vocal. Basically what this will do [...]…
Dedication – ShottyGunz Grinds Out On Beats In The Studio Under Any Conditions! To me – making beats is not just a hobby its my profession its what I do. Being a producer is way more than just downloading FL Studio to your laptop with some drum kits. If you don’t have your heart in [...]…
Quit Crying Already & Become Successful! I’m sure you came to grips with this lesson a long time ago but no one is going to hand you anything in this world. You must be able to display courage by taking the opportunities you want for yourself. It’s a hard lesson to learn and when you [...]…
Composing Over Samples – Cracking The Code – Part 2/2 This is the 2nd part (Watch 1st Part Here) of this tutorial series – and the beat I will be showing in this video is “Never Gonna Change”. This beat will be on my new beat tape coming out 1/9/12 called “Street Soul”. If [...]…
Composing Over Samples – Cracking The Code – Part 1/2 I started off making beats as a sampler and I still do it today. My first beats were usually some chops, bass, and some drums. I had to find ways to break the monotony of that sound so what better way to do it than [...]…