| Garageband is a wonderful tool to use if you're looking | | | | Hip Hop including West Coast, Crunk and more |
| to get started in making beats or music production. | | | | traditional sounding hip hop. These loops are usually |
| The loops especially make it easy to get started | | | | made by DJ's and Producer's with some music |
| covering multiple music genres including Hip Hop and | | | | industry experience and some are pretty good. Just |
| R&B. Using and experimenting with loops in your | | | | check that they are royalty free before purchasing. |
| beats will give you a feel for what style you should go | | | | Another option would be to use the existing tools |
| for. However these loops are not that good and there | | | | available to you in Garageband such as the software |
| are only a few, which limits your option for making Hip | | | | instruments. You can select one of the Hip Hop drum |
| Hop beats. There are a few options available that | | | | machine software instruments and compose a beat |
| could rectify this problem. | | | | using a MIDI controller hooked up to the computer or |
| Your first option would be to by a Garageband Jam | | | | just the computer keyboard. All you need to do is play |
| Pack, specifically Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools. This will | | | | the beat on the keyboard and record in Garageband. |
| add much more Hip Hop oriented loops to the loops | | | | These can be saved as loops or in mp3 format for |
| library and instantly give you more ideas of how to | | | | later use. What you can also do is use existing loops |
| utilize them. You might even hear some | | | | and manipulate them using the edit function in |
| familiar-sounding loops used in recent hits. Remix Tools | | | | Garageband. This can be done only with loops that |
| also adds more software instruments. Among these | | | | we're made using the software instruments. All you |
| software instruments are the classic 808 and 909 | | | | need to do is load a loop you want in Garageband, |
| drum machines to name a few. The 808 drum | | | | click the edit (scissor button) and from there you can |
| machine sound has made a huge comeback in recent | | | | manipulate the drums sounds. After doing this, a neat |
| years and will definitely add some old school flavor to | | | | trick is to slow the tempo of the beat to make it more |
| your beats. | | | | rappable. To make a loop more rappable by changing |
| There are also tons of third-party loop-packs available | | | | the tempo, select project in the LCD and change it to |
| on-line. Some free and other not so free. The third | | | | between 100-110. |
| party loop packs available span multiple sub-genres of | | | | |