r/trapproduction

Need Some Help

Hey everyone! I’m a small creator trying to get my videos out there, but honestly I’ve been struggling to reach people. Some of my videos have been sitting at around 5 views for days, and it’s pretty discouraging.

I’m not asking anyone to force themselves to watch or anything — I’d just really appreciate it if you could check out my content, give me some honest feedback, and maybe help me figure out what I could improve.

I’m just trying to get my work in front of a few more people and hopefully grow from there. Any support or feedback would genuinely mean a lot. 🙏

Merry Christmas

I’m looking to get a new laptop mainly for making trap beats in FL Studio and using plugins like Serum, Kontakt, and a bunch of effects. My current laptop starts struggling once I have a decent number of tracks and plugins open, so I’m trying to find something that can handle music production without being overkill. What would you guys recommend as the best laptop for music production for trap production, and what specs should I prioritize?

Thanks for any suggestions, I’m kinda lost with all the different options.

And some tips for prod this type of beats, i can share some of my work privately if someone wanna heard it. Peace!

Is there a way to not have your personal information listed when selling?

I’ve been having people reach out to me asking to purchase my beats. I’ve been uploading consistently for the past year or so and gained a good following so I feel like it’s time to start actually selling. A friend of mine mentioned BeatStars to start with but when I looked into the process of selling to someone I noticed it shows the sellers name and shipping address despite it being a digital product.

Is there a way around this or are there alternative sites you guys can recommend?

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I just learned something about beat leases that honestly caught me off guard, and I want to know how other artists feel about this.

I always understood that when you lease a beat, the producer still owns the beat. That’s completely fair they created it, and I’m paying for the right to use it.

But I recently started reading the actual fine print on some BeatStars leases and found clauses saying that the artist does not own the master or sound recording rights to the new song they create with the beat.

So I’m the artist writing the lyrics, recording the vocals, potentially paying for the recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, video, marketing, etc., but the producer can still retain ownership of the finished master?

So my question to artists and producers is: did y’all already know this? And do you think it’s fair for a producer to retain ownership of the master of the new recording when they’re licensing an already created beat?

I was listening to basement freestyle prod. by Luger and always wondered how the beat was so energetic and fun, I kept obsessing over picking the right sounds, chords, melodies, etc and would make loops nonstop until I heard something i liked

then on a random walk (of course)…i realized it’s the arrangement and automations when I listened to the instrumental (shits crazy I recommend)

Then I stopped obsessing over making loops and focused more on arranging and learning how to make it fun and always moving.

High pass filter automations, gross beat stutters/retriggers and vinyl stops are my fav. I’ll occasionally use a full 1-2 silence break. I’ll try to change up the drums too and make small changes in the melodies to create more suspense n drops

Wsg,

I figured my beats sometimes lack some color which I've heard can be improved using saturation/distortion. I know what they do now (like adding harmonics etc), but it would be really helpful to understand how y'all use them, like whether you throw those effects onto single sound for sounddesign or on the whole mix. I wanna understand when you use it and what tge desired outcome per usecase is. I hope that makes sense 😅

Thanks for the replys and ideas and if yall have some goto stock fl plugins or other plugin recommendations that would be great too

When i make a beat it gets its volume lowered by 7 dB because of youtube rules, and 5-6 dB come from the 808s, how do i make them to be distorted and heavy but not ruin my beat? If i mute them and leave only the melody+ hi hats snare open hat etc.. it only gets lowered by 1.5 dB which is perfect. I dont understand how other distorted beats sound clear and good even when they are louder than mine.

i feel like i'm on a weird phase where i hate all the sounds i have...

I posted this in r/makinghiphop but my exact question didn't get answered. I think they thought my question was basically "how do I flow?", when I was more asking "Could this way be a blueprint to learning how to flow?".

This is what I said in the post and my method:

I have struggled for years now with how to flow on a rap beat. Claps, snares, kicks, hi-hats, I saw their patterns, but didn't ever know how to slide my vocals in nicely to get a good flow. I would think I did REALLY well, only for other people to hear it and say, "I would rather listen to nails on a chalkboard."

So, I quit rapping for a few months after years of progress, until a really talented beatmaker gave me an instrumental to rap on. It was an extremely complex beat, yet it had one element I understood well: a simple piano melody. With that piano, I could actually count the bars in a song. When I started writing lyrics, I came up with this strategy.

The piano keys hit 8 times before resetting. That means they hit twice in a bar, then loop after 4. The 1st and 5th piano keys hit with more intensity than the others. I made sure every word I wrote landed exactly with the piano strike.

So, the piano goes:

DUH duh duh duh DUH duh duh duh

So, I write:

LIVE it up and THROW it back down.

That is my chorus repeated 6 times, with the beat getting more complex.

A few lines in the verse go:

YOU can't un-der-STAND my pain (pause)
YOU can't un-der-STAND my struggles
YOU can't un-der-STAND my name (pause)

I made sure the syllables lined up with the piano keys, and when I came up short, I added a pause.

My most complex lines go:

MUSICALLY illiterate
CONFUSINGLY ignorant
FOOLISHLY belligerent

I didn't focus on the extra SFX: the claps, snares, kicks, bells, jingles, shakers. I, at some parts, forgot they were even in the track. I just locked in on the piano melody and made my words/syllables strike at the same time.

My question is, can this rapping process work? If everything on the beat is musically sound, can I write my lyrics to only one element while ignoring the rest and have it turn out just as fine?

I know it is hard to judge without hearing the actual track, but is my overall train of thought on the right path?

Thank you for your help!

TL;DR: If you ONLY write to the melody of the track, ignoring other elements like kick, snare, clap, hi-hats, can you still have a good flow​?

Hey guys,

I’ve realized that whenever I try to jump straight into making a "serious" track from scratch, I overthink every single drum choice and synth sound, and end up closing the DAW without finishing anything.

I was talking to a friend about doing quick, low-stakes warm-ups before opening serious projects, kind of like sketching before painting (e.g., sampling a random household object or setting a strict 5-minute timer to make a dumb 4-bar groove just to get the fingers moving).

How do you guys kickstart your sessions? Do you do any quick scratchpad exercises/games to get into a flow state, or do you just power through the empty project grid? Curious what works for you all.

I‘m gonna practice today, which tutorial really changed how you view certrain things and taught you the most?

Hi! There is this one finnish artist who has really hard beats in his songs. I want to really know how one of them was made so i can learn how to make them myself

So if there is anybody super talented, could you please recreate the beat for me and send me the flp. So i can try to learn from it.

When ever i play my beats that have sines or less harmonics it sounds distorted how do i fix it?