How Do You Find Beats & Instrumentals?

[thegreatest]

Hi, and thanks for reading! Here's the short version of my story. I didn't have my voice for a couple of years, and couldn't sing in that time. It absolutely destroyed me mentally, and I realized I couldn't do without singing and/or MCing.

Now I'm getting my voice back, and I realized I desperately want to record some tracks - as many as possible, in fact. But where can I find beats? There's so much stuff on SoundClick and places like that, I have no idea how to start looking in a systematic, structured way.

Do you have any tips on finding quality backing tracks? Please share the knowledge, I promise I'll pay the community back for any quality info I get!

 

[Black Cobain]

Hi, and thanks for reading! Here's the short version of my story. I didn't have my voice for a couple of years, and couldn't sing in that time. It absolutely destroyed me mentally, and I realized I couldn't do without singing and/or MCing.

Now I'm getting my voice back, and I realized I desperately want to record some tracks - as many as possible, in fact. But where can I find beats? There's so much stuff on SoundClick and places like that, I have no idea how to start looking in a systematic, structured way.

Do you have any tips on finding quality backing tracks? Please share the knowledge, I promise I'll pay the community back for any quality info I get!

Youtube's your best friend when it comes to that, just search up "[Rapper] type beat free" and you'll get a ton of tracks

Then just download the vid - YouTube to mp3

 

[mortuus est]

soundcloud

 

[phantom 4 lyfe]

Do you have a spotify acount? @thegreatest
its a dj's dream if you know what you want and it was released to spotify
you can look up an artist and their instrumentals
and you can look for karaoke type ish.
download it to your phone or computer...... flip it on your equipment to record over.
or you looking for obscure beats that arent known?

 

[NORFOLKSOWN]

I try and stick with local producers. Go to beat battles network. Coli producers got some heat to. At one point I was heavy on the soubdclick wave would listen to 15 seconds of a beat and download if it had potential spend two hours doing that like maybe 3 times a month. And just go thru them on car rides lunch breaks. While I'm smoking. Making dinner. Its a grind to find the right beats if you don't have no one in pocket to provide that sound you looking for. You may luck up but your doing your self a disservice by not working one on one with someone At least every once and a while

 

[King Musa]

Funny story, I'm a producer but, I started off rapping but, I couldn't find quality instrumentals without buying so I took the initiative to learn how to make beats and now I'm pretty good at it so, I don't even fukk with rapping anymore.

 

[Self_Born7]

I'm a DJ first and foremost,,, and a vinyl junkie... I just started kicking out beats a few months ago... So I have crates and crates of old school, funk, jazz, soul, and rare grooves... I have 4-5 crates of 45 i bagged from my pops a while ago...
i've found many gems, just digging thru my family records, who don't even play them anymore, garage sales, and even thrift shops...