How To Make A Hip Hop Beat/Instrumental In Logic Pro X | Beat Maker Tutorials

Hey Everyone,

In this 1hr+ long tutorial video, I will show you how to make a new school hip hop beat/instrumental in logic pro x from scratch. It covers everything from starting with the melodies to adding drums and effects, as well as how to start pre mixing your track before the real mixing phase.

How To Create Drum Fills In Logic Pro X | Beat Maker Tutorials

Hey Everyone,

This video tutorial will teach you how to create drum fills into your logic pro x beat/instrumental. This will help your beats progression if you are looking to make your beats sound a little more interesting.

How To Install FL Studio Producer Edition 11 On Mac OSX | Winebottler Tutorial

Here a quick tutorial to show you how to install FL Studio 11 (Producer Edition) on a Mac running OSX. I know there is a BETA version out from ImageLine for FL Studio to run on your mac, but it's still buggy as I understand. So here is the workaround using Winebottler. Windows based programs usually have a .exe extension for applications, which only can be installed on windows machines, but using this trick you'll be able to install any .exe extension on a mac running OSX.

Sell Beats With YouTube

Did you know that YouTube is a powerful engine to promote and sell your beats with?

Maybe you did but you don't know how some producers are getting thousands of views for each of their beats! The secret lies behind how they title their post. The thing to remember is that you will want to use a title that is similar to what artists are actually typing into Google or YouTube to look for certain type of beats, be it genre,style, beats per minute.

What I've noticed is that by using phrases like "Kendick Lamar type beat" or "Drake type beat", I'm actually getting more views! The key is to start your title like this, then put the name of your beat and your producer name after this.

Once you completed a beat, think of which major artist you can hear on it and use this to your advantage by naming your title to this.

I would recommend using some nice graphics in your video as well, plain looking videos tend not to get as many plays. A great and easy way to make nice beat videos for YouTube is by using Adobe After Effects. The video here is also made with it. If you are interested in getting these videos produced for your beats email cjbeatz@gmail.com

You can look for popularity of certain phrases by using Google adwords keyword planner. This is also an awesome tool to look for other great phrases related to your search term. So don't limit your self, keep searching for even better keyword phrases to use for your YouTube titles.

How To Set Up A Beat Selling Website For Free

What's Up fellow Producers?

I wanted to share with you guys a great way to set up a free beat selling website. With alot of you producers out there just starting out, this is an awesome way to make your first few bucks selling your art to artists looking to buy beats!

Here is the tutorial video:


Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any questions!

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Beatstars.com Remix Competition | Crooked I - YODO

What's up fellow producers? Did you know Beatstars.com is having a remix competition of Crooked I's hit "YODO". It's free to join the beat remix competition. All you need is a youtube account to upload your beat to. Find out more about the Remix Contest.



Here is the original video:



Here is my personal remix:

How to sell beats using Twitter

What's Up My Fellow Producers/Beat-makers! I've been selling beats online using various techniques over the years, and wanted to share with you a great way of selling your beats using twitter. Not getting alot of traffic from search engines? Step up your game, get more traffic to your website and therefore sell more beats. You can't be lazy and expect to sell beats online, that wont happen. You really have to give it your all and go in hard with your promotion. The more links you create to your website the better. The tutorial video below will show you how easy it is to find beat buyers on twitter and how to utilize twitter to get you the right type of traffic with people that are looking to buy beats online.

Having Trouble Making Those First Beat Sales?

Whats up my fellow Producers??!!

Are you having trouble making your first sales?

Are you sending all sorts of traffic to your beat player and your still not making any money?

Here are a few tips that might help you in making those first necessary sales that will determine the success of your online business:

1. Check your prices!!If you never sold a beat over the net, and are trying to sell leases for like $50.00, and exclusive's for like $250-500, no one will buy them! Remember your not known like Timbaland. ;) When I first started with my website (www.cjbeatz.com) I had my leases and exclusives up for those high amounts, and guess what...I did not make any sales what so ever, until I lowered my prices. I say anything around $10.00 for a lease and $25 - $35 for exclusive beats is acceptable to start off with. The key is not to go to low. If a potential customers sees that your selling you leases for a couple of bucks, they are not going to think highly of you, and think twice about buying your beats.

2. Put your best beats at the top of the player!! When a potential customer comes to listen to your beats, what do they see first? The beats on top, right? So, make sure that your best work is on the top, this will help grab the attention of the customer more, and they will be more willing to continue listening.

Also, if you are using "myFlashStore" (which, by the way, is a fantastic tool to sell your beats with) be sure to enable the "autoplay" function on what you think is your hottest beat on the player. You want to make sure that you can grab the attention of your potential customer the second they enter your website!




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3. You need to build a client base before you can raise your prices!! Once you have a client base (people regarded as previous customers) of about 10-15 people, it's extremely important to remember to stay in contact with them, because they are more willing to buy a beat from you than someone who hasn't purchased a beat form you before.

4. Add value!! I can't mention this enough. When you contact a previous customer be sure to add some information that they might seem valuable. For example, if you are contacting a rapper that bought beats from you in the past, to let him know that you uploaded some new beats, figure out where he is geographically located from your previous paypal receipts, and look online to see if there are any open-mic events going on around his/her area, and let him/her know about them. He/She will appreciate this because it is free information that he might find useful. Most importantly, he/she will remember that YOU provided this potentially useful information. Now you have successfully added value to your customers life. Believe me, this is a major key in running a successful business. This does not only apply in beat leasing market but this concept is used in all industries! This is just one of my ideas, but you can see where I'm going with this. Be creative, let yourself get inspired to come up with new ways of addind value to your customers life!

5. Search the forums for artists hungry for beats!!There are hundreds of forums online, where thousands of rappers/singers communicate on a daily basis. Most of these forum websites, that are related to our HipHop/Rap/R&B community, have a section where you can showcase your beats. Artists from around the globe are always looking for new production, you just have to be aware of where your target-market is hanging out.

Here are some forums that I found really useful: www.letsbeef.com | www.jeejuh.com | www.rapworlds.com

Remember, be part of the conversations on these forums! Do not just blatantly spam the whole site. They will quickly ban you if they suspect spamming. So be careful out there. Don't give yourself a bad rep ;)

I hope I was able to help some of you out, feel free to contact me anytime if ya'll have any questions.

I wish you guys all the best, and much success in 2010 and the upcoming years!


Chris J.
CJ Beatz Productions
www.cjbeatz.com