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Beat Making Glossary
Here is a beginner's glossary of terms associated with beat making and music production. If you'd like to learn more about how to make beats visit our website
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☆☆☆☆☆- An instrumental composition - often in the genre's of Pop and Hip-Hop. 2) A specific groove of a larger composition that uses drum and percussion elements. 3) A single unit of time used in music that denotes the rhythm of notes and can be subdivided further
A "digital audio workstation" - software that mimics recording consoles and allows for composition, recording and audio manipulation and engineering
The act of taking all notes/beats in a digital recording and aligning them to a perfect time grid in music making software.
The act of taking a pre-recorded piece of audio and using it in a new and different musical composition in various ways.
"Musical Instrument Digital Interface" - a method of sending note and tempo data back and forth from hardware or software used to make music.
The speed of a piece of music across time - denoted in "BPM" or beats per minute.
The act of applying various "effects" to a piece of audio. Examples include equalizers, reverb, compression, distortion and more.
Shorthand for "equalization" - the act of boosting or attenuating frequency data in a piece of audio.
The act of controlling the dynamic range of a piece of audio - bringing the loudest and quietest parts closer together in amplitude/volume
A musical phrase or idea that consists of single notes played individually in a specific pattern/rhythm.
The underlying rhythm of a piece of music - often refers to the drum pattern and underlying "feel" of the music.
The underlying emotional movement of a piece of music - the "vibe" of a song. Often thought of in terms of chords and chord progressions.
A sound that has a specific pitch.
Multiple notes played together at the same time.
