There are a lot of sites out there on the web offering free r&b beats for musicians who are working on a tight budget. Most of the time I recommend that people use these only for demos.
But a few of you have ignored this advice and got into a bit of trouble so I want to give you some advice if you really must use free r&b beats.
This is for people who really don’t have the money to buy a new beat pack every time they want to make a tune.
Free R&B Beats – Top 5 Tips
If you’re going the free route here are my top 5 tips….
First of all you want to go onto google and search “free beats”. This might sound obvious but the best beat websites are changing all the time and you want to make sure you’re using the very best stuff.
Copyright
Once you find some free r&b beats that you like it’s time to look for the legal stuff. You need to make sure that you have permission to use the beat wherever you like, without paying a fee.
If you can’t find this information don’t use the beats in your track because they’re probably stolen.
Sample Rate
Next you want to make sure that the free r&b beats you’re using are very high quality because if you base your whole track on something that is week your mix will sound muddy.
You should be using above 128kbp
Editing
So with all that out the way it’s time to cut your beats front and back and make them fit in the tempo of your song with time stretch.
Don’t overdo it here because too much stretching or squeezing will distort your beat. If the beat is not near the right tempo find a new one.
Mixing beats
Often when you buy a beat pack you will get a whole load of stuff in the same style, and all recorded on the same drum kit which makes it really easy to mix them.
The problem with free beats is that the choice will often be quite limited, so you want to make sure everything sounds as similar as possible.
Final thoughts.
I really hope that you got something useful from this article. Using free r&b beats can be a little bit of a minefield, but if you follow the advice here you should do OK.
Good luck.
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