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dhmai2	Date: July 23, 2006 @ 12:38 AM whenever i make a song, it turns out to be trance =/ what are the methods of making it into hip-hop/rnb? Or what are the elements of hip-hop n rnb?
tsand19151	Date: July 23, 2006 @ 1:00 AM you're asking a very subjective question. ask 3 people and you'll get three different answers. may i suggest that you forget about genre and just make the music. if it's good and expressive it won't matter what genre it is.
DigitalEntropy	Date: July 24, 2006 @ 12:21 PM ^^ trance usually has drums that are pretty consistant and straight forward. aka kick on 1 and 3 snare on 2 and 4 while a hat follows underneath it. try expirimenting with other types of patterns. for example allowing the second kick drum to land on 3 and a half or 2 and half. as far as leads go, um, hip-hop/rnb isnt really synth orientated so use piano, heavy bass, etc and just get a nice groove goin hope that kind helps a little
plungerboy	Date: September 10, 2006 @ 7:46 AM DNB is usually very high bpm chopped up beats. RnB is very slow off beat kinda following the vocals(or the other way around). There are also hip hop and drum and bass samples and presets, which might help you in your dilemna!
iOrbit	Date: October 1, 2006 @ 7:00 PM Originally, hip hop was sample based break beats. Download a "funky drummer" wave file and play around with it in the fruity slicer.