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Encyclopedia > Beats (music)

A beat is a background track to show how people in the world don't listen to the lyrics and just hear the background music, a hip hop song. This includes the percussion, synthesized sounds, and any other sound element of a song that is not the artist's voice. Beats are usually composed by a producer, though some artists compose their own beats. They are essentially the framework for a song, because they dictate the tempo, the mood, and the progression of the song. Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...


Composing a hip hop beat was traditionally done with a turntable and later evolved to the use of drum machines and samplers. Many artists will use another artist's beat to create their own song. The resultant song is usually similar to the original, and frequently the chorus will remain mostly intact. Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... An AKAI MPC2000 sampler // [edit] Overview The emergence of the digital sampler made sampling far more practical, and as samplers added progressively more digital processing to their recorded sounds, they began to merge into the mainstream of modern digital synthesizers. ...


Samplers took on different forms, such as Music Production Centers and computer programs. Programs such as Reason, Cubase, and Fruity Loops are common in the underground hip hop industry - a lot of which is made in small, low-budget studios. An AKAI MPC2000 sampler Akai MPCs (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) are a popular and well respected series of electronic musical instruments originally designed by Roger Linn and produced by the Japanese company Akai from 1988 onwards. ... Reason is a popular music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation, programmed by Didier Dambrin (also known as Gol), the creator of Image-Line Software. ...


Over the years many new sounds have been experimented with. In the early 90's, Dr. Dre was one of the first to put a melody in a hip hop beat, and this influenced many producers coming after him. Currently producers such as 9th Wonder and Kanye West tend to sample old soul songs, and speed the voices up, and add them to a simple drum beat. This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... 9th Wonder (b. ... Kanye Omari West (pronounced /kɑn. ...


In rapcore, beats are generally done with live drums and sometimes guitars as well. Rapcore is a musical genre that fuses the techniques of hip hop, punk, heavy metal and sometimes funk. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is mostly a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ...


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Beat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (406 words)
In physics and sound, a beat is the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves.
beat in music is a pulse of sound that marks the rhythm.
Beat is also then the meter, rhythm, riddim, or groove of a piece and may indicate solely the bass and snare drum rhythm parts.
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