I've got a serious question for you and other producers/beat makers, why leave the metronome in so often? I 100% understand the desire to have it to keep time when you're 1st creating the beat, but one of my biggest pet peeves in beats is the steady clack of a metronome. Take it out, replace it with other instruments, I understand occasionally works, but I've been going through your entire library this week along with a few others while I look for producers for a project and you have it in like 90%+ of your tracks.
I get your confusion but the “Hi-Hat” (not the metronome) has been common in hip hop music since it started. It is especially common with more modern style trap beats.
@@Foges yeah, I've been listening to hip hop since like 86 when I was 6 and we finally got cable in my tiny town, that's why it bugs me. Lots of them sound straight up like a metronome and not a hi-hat though, or a "clacker" that you'd get when you're a kid, it's just in A LOT of the beats and after you listen to enough of them consecutively, it becomes distracting. You make quality beats and I've set a handful aside that I'm considering using while I'm writing (I write rhymes, but don't make beats), so I'm not trying to be disrespectful, just wondered if you could or why you don't when the beat is near finished, replace it with something else that still keeps time but differentiates the beat, making it sound 'harder' (and when I use you, I mean producers in general). Cool, thanks for getting back to me.
@@Clubber-Slang depends on the style of beat, the younger crowd seems to like it on certain beats though it definitely can get repetitive easy if you don’t keep them interesting
@@Foges It for sure has it's place, an ultra fast paced track suits it perfect and as the intro to the beat kind of like a crescendo then the "real" beat starts I like a lot too. I find that tracks with like 80-90 bpm seem to fit my writing style the best, I also seem to be drawn to tracks that have a dark style to them or something a bit off kilter for more of jokes as traditional "punchlines". Keep at it man and just for some context, the idea (albeit not super original) was to have essentially a mixtape with 13 tracks (baker's dozen) with each beat from a different producer, preferably 3 verses on each track with each verse from a different artist to showcase talent (through youtube mostly). My verses would be the baseline, write a better verse than me, you takeover that spot, so it spurs friendly competition for who writes the best verse (well 3) for each beat.
