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Subject: DUBturbo Day 2 - Beat Structures – Understanding beat styles & Tempos
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Hey fellow future producer,

Yesterday we talked about understanding the technical aspects of your beat maker, and now it’s time to start making some serious music with it!

There are only a few variables to play with when deciding what type of genre of music you want to make. Most of you guys are probably making rap/hiphop, house, reggae, jungle, and other urban music so we’ll focus on this realm of heart thumping beat creation for now.

Let’s quickly go through and look at some simple structures and what they represent, we’ve also setup a special page to explain this better and there’s a video plus images so you can follow along and learn/do as you see on your copy of DUBturbo.

Rap/Hiphop – though it’s all over the board with tempo’s, most hiphop sticks to 75-105BPM. The drum kits and samples used are everything from classic 808’s to slick new multi drum timba/Neptune sounds, but one thing is for sure – the PATTERNS of the drums themselves are usually off the wall and broken down really well.

House/Trance – Get ready for some serious repetition and bar building! House tracks are usually in the 120-140BPM area and start off with simple patterns that just build/drop, build/drop, until a bridge/chorus. House is fun and easy to make, and often you don’t more than a few nice 16’s looped with a few change ups and bridges. Samples and drum kits are getting more and more mash up style with house where everything/anything goes. Even big hiphop artists are breaking into the house scene – because it’s another untapped niche and house music is universal. Even I love to groove to a good track after a few Corona’s in da club….

Reggae/Reggaeton: Reggae – usually sticks to the same tempo’s as hiphop/rap (75-105) with exceptions of course. Drum kits and samples are usually light keys contrasted with hard hitting kits and sick basslines. Nothing comes close to a wicked rhythm constructed with the right patterns and drops throughout. Reggaeton is pretty close to reggae when it comes to production and patterns with a few tweaks to double up the kick/snare per bar, and keys usually have an offset ¾ loop.

We can go over a few more genres however I think once you absorb the videos you’ll agree that it’s pretty easy to take your bars, change them up, duplicate them, tweak, and bam you go from one genre to the next with a few SIMPLE steps.

Cool fam, glad you’ve stayed with me so far. If most of this stuff you already know, it’s still good to cover again and I want even the newest of noobs to get a full understanding of our world in as little time as possible here.

Tomorrow we go into sampling and how to get your own sounds, drums, keyboard categories and more into DUBturbo with a few clicks…

‘Till then, keep making hot beats and watch for tomorrow’s email.

Bang Bang,
dubT