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R&B Beats and Rap Instrumentals by Dr Duce: The Beginning


New R&B Beat – The Beginning by Dr. Duce

This R&B beat is of great significance to me as it represents a new phase in my music production journey with the commencement of my new beats store www.ducebeats.com. The track itself was inspired by some of my students who wanted me to demonstrate how to produce an R&B styled track in during one of our session. This was a great challenge which i thoroughly enjoyed and I’m pretty happy with the outcome too.

Main Ingredients of this R&B Beat

The entire instrumental is built around a simple vocal hook sung by the awesome Tasha. I sampled the hook which contains only two words which are ‘I know’. However this simple yet catchy hook melody was enough to inspire the entire production. The beat has a pulse of 132 BPM but runs in halftime which falls very much in line with current R&B tracks. Also, the instruments and sounds used are also very much the flavour of now. All drums are of course Body Blows Drum Kitstaken from my Body Blows Drum Kits sample pack. They provide those essential traps all style rhythms with nice syncopated hi hat rolls, heavy kicks and 808 bassline. You will find some lovely bells and pads as well as melodic hooks running throughout the track. These have been designed to support the overall instrumentation whilst at the same time creating enough room for you to write your lyrics and deliver a great vocal performance without too much interference of sounds getting in the way.

Breaking Down The R&B Beat Structure

Similar to my other R&B beats such as ‘3 Little Birds’ I make sure to leave enough space for you to do your thing. As far as structure or arrangement goes the sections are put together in verse chorus format which will allow you the flexibility of building a great dynamic movement between each part of the song as it develops over time.

A Perfect R&B Beat for Your Next Project.

I’m absolutely certain that this track will serve you well as a foundation for you to write your next big single, or album track. If of course you are a music supervisor for TV or film this will be a great addition to one of the scenes in your next production. You can listen to the track right here by clicking on the YouTube link or download it straight away by clicking the button above. I’ve make sure this track is professionally mixed and mastered to a very high standard and it’s available as high quality wise file or in MP3 format. As with all of my productions they come to you fully prepared for you to create your next masterpiece.

More R&B Beats and Rap Instrumentals

I’m glad you’ve checked out this track, now take a couple of minutes to check out some more of my R&B beats and rap instrumentals right here on my store. Don’t forget to subscribe to my Duce Beats Official YouTube Channel and follow me on Facebook. That way I can keep you posted on new release as soon as they come out.

Learn Beat Making Techniques

You may or may not be aware of my other website and training portal www.MusicTechtraining.com. However, if you want to find out more about what went into making this R&B beat click the link above and watch my brief overview video on my production techniques. I make all of my beats in Logic pro X and if you want to find out more about this great program feel free to check out my YouTube channel too where you can learn a whole lot more about making tracks and using Logic Pro to create great songs.

I’m glad you’ve checked out this track, now take a couple of minutes to check out some more of my R&B beats and rap instrumentals right here on my store. Don’t forget to subscribe to my Duce Beats Official YouTube Channel and follow me on Facebook. That way I can keep you posted on new release as soon as they come out.

Learn Beat Making Techniques

You may or may not be aware of my other website and training portal www.MusicTechtraining.com. However, if you want to find out more about what went into making this R&B beat click the link above and watch my brief overview video on my production techniques. I make all of my beats in Logic pro X and if you want to find out more about this great program feel free to check out my YouTube channel too www.youtube.com/c/musictechtrainingcentre where you can learn a whole lot more about making tracks and using Logic Pro to create great songs.

How to Make an R&B Beat in Logic Pro X


How to Make an R&B Beat in Logic Pro X – The Beginning

Today I’m going to show you a quick overview on how to make an R&B beat in Logic Pro X. The instrumental I’m creating is a track called The Beginning and you can get your copy right here. Anyway, the tutorial is an overview of the steps I take when creating R&B style instrumentals using my favourite tool Logic Pro X. I demonstrate how to incorporate a short vocal sample using the Logic Pro EXS24 sampler. I’ll also show you also how to make use of the Logic arpeggiator plug-in when creating your trap style high hats at different resolutions.

Beat Making Techniques

The track itself was inspired by some of my students who were very keen to learn the basics of R&B production. So for my lesson I decided to come up with the skeleton of this track to demonstrate the general procedures when working in this genre. We were all using Logic Pro X as our digital audio workstation but needed to incorporate additional samples as well as 808 sounds which we imported into the program. As I flashed out the idea in my demo the guys felt that I should take it that bit further and complete it as a full on production, which I’m happy to say I did and I am indeed delighted with the final outcome.

Transferrable Beat Making Skills

The tips and tricks I demonstrate in this video on how to create an R&B beat are not only reserved to those of you working in Logic Pro X but can be applied to any other DAW such as FL Studio, Cubase, ProTools, Reason, and Ableton. It’s just a matter of modifying the approach but keeping the same principle.

Logic Pro X and the Izotope Plug-ins

How to make an R&B beatIf you want to find out more about how to make an R&B beat, Rap or Trap instrumental or you simply want to know more about my beat making techniques used when working on Logic Pro X, visit my www.musictechtraining.com site for more in-depth tutorials. I’m also a very big fan of the Izotope plug-in suite and will show you how to incorporate them in your beat making process and how I make good use of these tools also.

Music Tech Training Center

Remember to check out my YouTube channels. Like and subscribe and leave comments as I’m always delighted to hear from you. You can also take advantage of my special offers and free beats and instrumentals right here. Remember to check back each week as I’ll be updating the store with new, fresh and exciting instrumentals just right for your songwriting project or your video production. Peace.