Back by popular demand we now have sound kits on BeatCreators. We will be posting 10 or more new kits a month for $19/month. Basically instead of spending hours on end searching for sounds or spending $29-$100 per sound kit, you can now just sign up and download as many as we can post. Check them out now on beatcreators.com.

The most important decision most music producers make is also the one we don't spend enough time talking about: who you work with. Music producers are told to get their beats in the hands of someone in the music industry and if they keep grinding their dreams will come true. 

This may be the case, but you don't want to just give your beats to anybody. It's okay to be picky up front because you don't want to waste your time working with people that are of no benefit to you.

By being picky with the artist you work with, you will start to realize that you have more time to make music. Try to work with artist who are serious and have a certain level of professionalism. This will help you build a strong resume and teach you valuable lessons about yourself, the business, and the process of creating good music. Basically you are who you work with.

1. The instruments or sound kits your using are not quality.

This is the case for a lot of amateur producers. The get so excited that they can make a beat and they don’t pay attention to the fact that the quality of their beat is horrible. Also, they don’t know how to get better sounds kits. Today getting quality sounds fx and kits is a lot easier than it used to be thanks to digital audio software and VSTs. Make sure you compare your beats on a sonic level with industry beats.

2. Your mix is bad.

Most producers don’t understand how to mix a beat properly. Most amateur music producers take this for granted. To do this you need to have a basic understanding of effects, volume, and panning. Do some research if these terms sound foreign.

3. The song structure doesn’t fit the song.

When you make a beat make sure you choose a song structure that compliments the arrangement. For starters find a song with a similar sound and mimic the song structure until you get used to how beats are structured.

4. If the melody in your beat is bad then your beat is bad.

The definition of melody is a sequence of pitches and durations. I usually come up with the melody in my head first then the rest of the beat flows.

5. The timing and/or rhythm is off.

Quantize will usually help you with this.

6. The sound quality is not good.

Make sure you have decent headphones or monitor speakers when making your tracks. Also make sure you listen to your tracks in different sound systems and environments so that you have an idea how other listeners will here your beats. I put my beats on my IPod, in my car, and my home stereo at least before I let someone else hear them. You don’t have to go to that extreme, just make sure you try different speakers.

7. Your production style sounds to much like another producers.

Its okay to mimic and be inspired by another but its not okay to copy. If you do this people will let you know instantly that your beats are not original. You will get no where this way. Use sounds that you haven’t heard before or create your own.

8. The beat is not made for an artist.

This is not always a problem but it does happen. Some beats are just not made for a person to perform over. If your trying to get a beat placed with an artist, you must make sure that beat fits that artist. If you don’t want an artist to perform on your beats don’t worry about it you can always pitch it to radio or movies.

9. Your beat has no variation or change ups.

In order to keep the listener engaged into your beat, you must add some level of variation. A good example of this is the tracks the artist Beck uses.

10. You don’t have enough practice making beats.

Make more beats and you will get better. Repetition is the father of learning. Don’t expect to be great over night.

Thank you to everyone that attended this meetup at InnerEar Studio. The event turned out better than I thought it would and I’m thankful that all of you are so eager to learn and help each other learn. We promise to keep this thing going as long as you guys/girls keep coming.

For the next meetup I would like you guys to submit your ideas here on the meetup for topics and we will choose two to discuss. Everyone stressed that they would like there to be more structure so we will focus on making this happen. We will post the date for the next meetup soon so be on the lookout. Please rate the meetup and give some feedback so more musicians will be interested to contribute.

Again thank you all and I look forward to developing our relationship.

We have officially created our first meetup in the Washington D.C. area. If you are interested in learning more about music production or sharing what you know and you in the area, please come out and join us. We plan on having the meetup once a month to discuss music production and to get feedback on BeatCreators.com.  We are interested in meeting anyone in the area that has a background in music.  To sign up for the meetup visit http://meetup.com/beatcreators. The location is still to be determined.

We are in the process of creating a sound kit marketplace for music producers. We can’t give to many details just yet. But we are interested in your opinion on what it should contain. We have created this survey to get some feedback from the user community.  Click here to take the survey.

We have added some new features at your request. We now have an RSS feed to allow user to subscribe to the most recently asked questions. It’s a standard RSS Feed that you can use with any RSS reader. Also, we have added email notifications to the member profiles.  Now you can choose to receive email notifications when actions are performed on the site. If you have any other feature request or suggestions on how to make BeatCreators more useful for you, visit and post them at beatcreators.uservoice.com.

We have created a fan page on Facebook for all of you social network lovers to keep in touch with the latest and greatest at BeatCreators.  Click here to sign up and become a fan.  http://www.facebook.com/pages/BeatCreators/143376867451

The time has come to see what BeatCreators.com has to offer. We have just released the beta version of our site to nearly a thousand users after 6 months of hard work. If you are already a member, use this link to start using the site reset password. If you are not a member visit beta.beatcreators.com and sign up.