What TYPE of Beats Sell The MOST? (Online Music Producer Advice) 

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Everything Curtis is saying here is facts. I realized this yearsssss ago when the first artist I ever worked with, I showed him a catalog of my beats and he picked something I did in 10 min. Literally a beat with a basic drum pattern and an 808. Only thing he wanted extra was some drum fills and an outro. Easiest $200 dollars I ever made.

So that 14 piece Mariachi band I hired for next week is a bad look for my Hispanic Emo Trap Gospel track?

See I would try to just sell whatever is popular, but I feel I would just get bored of just chasing a crowd. I thrive off creativity and the freedom to work at my own pace and I'm okay with that.

bro thats true. less is more. mostly we complex our creatures (including myself) cuz we dont hear it from an artistic way (singer). When you create simply but catchy melodies an artist can have millions of ideas how to make that beat a great song.

One thing, those beats that don't sell well to rappers might do well in the film industry, or for commercials.

I think the reason why simple sells more is because rappers/singers are either not creative enough to write to those beats, too lazy to put forth the effort in writing to it or just plain don't want to. This is coming from a rappers perspective. I like heavy instrumentation personally.

Gems on gems, my guy always speaks facts💯💪🏾🙏🏾

CK would love to see a video about how taxes work as a producer 🔥🙏

This inspires me to not try so hard when making beats, only whats necessary!

Thanks man this video was realy helpful

Absolutely agree with this point! My first beat sale is the one I spent about 1 hour on LOL There's literally 3 instruments on it. Interesting aspect indeed. I learnt that you have to learn to give tbe singer/rapper space to breath and express their melodies/rhythm 🤗 Thanks Curtiss! Here's to more music and success for 2019, let's go!

Such valuable info , Thanx bro , I dig the intro too

It’s very hard to make good simple beats, but if you get it right the results are fantastic

Great video! For me, it also seems like the simple beats are more popular. I try to keep a balance between keeping it simple and still being creative.

EXACTLY!! You GOTTA leave space for the artist to work.

This is invaluable information and thank you for sharing your knowledge, Curtiss.

This info had str8 up value Curtiss!

well yea of course to a rapper this isnt gonna mean much....but to a music library or a big name artist ect it actually might. a person in the world of EDM might appreciate alot of those complexities so in the end its about your audience and whomever u are engaging in

Thats some solid info. Very useful - Thanks

Thank you. This's really helpful!

Curtiss thanks. That answered the question i asked last month “do you have a certain number of bars in mind when you make a beat”. Thanks big Bro for the insight you provide 💯👌🏽

Yes we do understand we do bro! 🤜

setting up my beat shop thank you brotha foreal!!!

This makes so much sense now lol great video!

Curtiss you're telling the truth here man. I was just making some music for one of my boys (I am not a big producer) and when he asked me to take out over half my sounds I felt disrespected. Sound Words. Keep leading the way.

Very god information thank you @Curtiss King TV

Thanks for all the info!

O my god i love this channel! I've been producing for about 1 year now and i'm just starting to license my beats, promote my beats, etc and i just wanted to say that your channel has helped me out so much! thanks for the guidance Curtiss!

Man, thank u so much!

Your first point about simple beats selling is spot on.If it’s mixed well, and the kick and 808 knock, people will go with the stripped down type over crazy produced beats 9 out of 10 times. Although it is nice when your beats that you added a lot to also sell!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us ! 🙏🏾

I've been out of the game for a while so all these Gems are greatly appreciated. When I was doing music previously though I was rarely had a chance to finish tracks from a beatmaker standpoint because I was co owner of an Indie label but I was the beatmaker and mix engineer so artist were literally scooping up every loop as fast as I could make them so I could never just make beats I would sculpt the track around what they came up with. However I know that level of involvement is not an option and so after a 15 yr hiatus I am enjoying just making beats but I am also seeking the best way to monetize what I am doing. Mr. King's videos have been a great help.

Sorry, I'm still watching, but I just saved this video to watch later, ima watch this video every time I need motivation. I'm still working on selling my first beat.

A while back this made me scratch my head at why other Musicians were making sales with their most basic sounding Instrumentals yet their most AWESOME/COMPLEX Instrumentals sold few to none. I really never gave it enough thought until now LMAO.....those complex Songs just left no space for the Artist. Anyways gold vids as usual Curtiss, salute from Australia

This is 1 of the reason's why I follow you, good👍 insight. The content needed to know. Keep up the good work and thanks. 💯🎤🎧🎹

for some reason your video content always pertains to the issues that have been on my mind at the exact moments when I press play. #Salute, now I overstand what was so difficult to understand before. Curtiss KinG You are the MVP. #ppt

As usual.. always great, substancive, valued content. I felt this 1💪🏾🙌🏾

I needed to hear that. It's OK to keep it simple at times. Gems on top of gems!

i like your stuff !!! 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

im glad u mentioned what u did in the second part curt cause im kinda in that stage right now. i got a pretty large catalog n some stuff is kinda all over the place where i still gotta ask myself " is this a hip-hop track, or a commercial type ect"....long story short yeah its always good to know what u tryna do with a project b4 hand

This video is so helpful!!! Thank you!!!

On point all the time mayne. You had me dying at 4:32 😂😂😂🤘🏽☹️🤘🏽

Learned something and enjoyed watching, thanks Curtis :)

Beats that your put your love and attention into will always succeed to an extent as long as you have developed your skills sufficiently and you’re providing some variation on a trend, don’t do the same as everyone else

So true, I am so guilty of that too, recently I try to do beats with more space for the artist. It's funny though, how some producer will accuse me of beeing lazy for that lol, but it's true, I had it soooo many times, that artists loved a beat but couldn't imagine themselves on it. Thanks for another great video Curtiss, plese keep em coming!

Very valuable informations here Curtiss. Thanks 4 your work 🖤

Man.. this is just what I needed.

this is actually true. I made a rapper listen to one of my beat which had a crazy melody and he was like its good but uh its too much instrumental and I was like wth it supposed to be then and I sat up thought about it, it make kinda sense. but those beats does make one killer track when we find the gun to the holster

4:26 "Where do I come in?" LMAO

You Sir are beats wisdom ✌️🙏🏼🙏🏼 thanks for everyhing u do for this comunity 💯

Yup big drums knock bundle in my future

Loving the content my bro 🙏🏾♥️

As producers, we got to have an ear for the people.

1:44 wifey logic on point :D

The stripped down beats mix better. A beat with a few instruments in it will sound really crispy. Mustard gained success off of simple beats like this. And when I scroll thru beatstars to freestyle on the way home, it's always the beat with one mid-range sound over it doing the melody.

🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀, when you described the rapper listening to you making the beat, "where do i come in?"

Am I the only one that likes these video before it even starts? Lol, Curtis would be my favorite teacher in school!

a vocal is a big instrument, especially when they decide to layer it with harmonizing adlibs + autotune/reverb/delay so if i got too many instruments doing different things (not layered stacks of the same melody) in my beat its gonna fight the vocals

Thank you for the wise words

Always good info

So basically less is more?

Thank you 🙏

I always wonder if I should go into one direction or keep producing hip hop, trap, pop, rnb... DOES VERSATILITY AFFECT POSITIVELY or NEGATIVELY YOUR BRANDING??

Thx u uncle Curtiss for the info

2:00 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 had me dying

Bruh the edits in this 😆🏆 I'm tryna sleep but this is sick tf

Hahahaha the spongebob jellyfish party song 😂😂

Someone in class yesterday asked who my favorite producer was, I didn't hesitate and said Curtis King.

I haaaaaaate that omg it's always the beats that took no time at all that you don't really care about that get picked up over your sentimental pieces

Another great video!

*Bookmarked*

I love it when Curtiss says “Stop playin wih me! Stahp plahin wih meeeh!” He has a special way of saying this

beginner prod here...really helpful

awesome vid

This is actually true trust me.

i see those speakers from spongebob lol. but also great info and incite, thank u

Well i really needed this video. Just yesterday i was working on a beat with an artist, that said that he loved the beat but it was just too noisey... so i ended up deleting so many instruments bruuu

This still facts in 2020, I sell more beats that have like 2-3 melodic elements that's it

You are right it went to simple trap and r&b do they can still auto tune.

Creating space in the track is important for every instrument. Rapper's need to see themselves as another instrument. I've noticed talented wordsmiths like a challenge to destroy a beat that is so good it's listenable as just an instrumental. However, I'm aware that not every rapper is gifted enough to write to anything so you gotta be versatile.

“Give me the real spill 🤨” lol man that was hilarious 😂

Put some HOOOOrns into it 🤣 Great content tho, preciate you Curtis ✊🏾

Wow, it is so random, mood is always changing.

The type that make girls gyrate in the club lol. Love your shit bro keep me coming 🔥🔥🔥

That 5 minute beat vs that 5 day beat. Ugggh ...5 min 5 track wins!!

I know right I've sold the most simplest beats and be like hold up why not the beats i put my blood sweat and tears on ?LOL

I just started posting my beats almost a month ago and haven't sold any yet. I know it's a process, im just tryna learn and grow

Sold 130 outta 135 last year. Variety, Quality, Creative, Unique.. Rarely trap, be a leader not a follower.

wisdom

I think the type beats people enjoy the most are: -Travis Scott Type Beats -Logic Type Beats -Future Type Beats -Juice WRLD Type Beat -Migos Type Beats

Your good at what you do bro. Like a duck in water lol. I think your only going to grow. You motivate me.

34 years old!

Oh this a good question

I feel trying to freestyle and see if it's easy to rap is helpful.

*Can you guess which one of my beats stell the most?*

THAT. is a very unique intro.

I'd like to like this twice. #ppt

The best ones.

Hello from 2021.