any tips?

[drought]

what are some things that i should learn in music theory if i wanna start producing some hop hip/ rap tracks?

[Olivia500]

Well i would say learn the basics first like you scales, chords, inversions. You can Google around or buy some books on music theory. Depending on what style of rap or hip-hop you want to makes will determine how much music theory you want to learn. But I say learn as much as you can no matter what because its only going to make you more versatile. What DAW are you using currently?

[bandcoach]

Durations and Rhythm and Meter
Whole Notes~Semi-breves
Half Notes~Minims
Quarter Notes~Crotchets
8th notes~Quavers
16th notes~Semi-quavers
32nd notes~Demi-Semi-Quavers

Left hand side tells you how many fit into the topmost note

Any of the above can be turned into a triplet, i.e. 3 of them go into a single instance of the next highest beat level

Group any of the above to get rhythms

group them in specific sets of beats such as the quarter note and you get your meter.

4 quarter notes in the bar is 4/4, 3 quarter notes in the bar is 3/4

Your rhythms should add their individual durations together to make the number of beats specified

Tempo
Tempo is distinct from rhythms and durations and meter.

It is the speed at which a piece of music flows. It is usually given as the number of crochets/quarter notes per minutes.

Only when we know this can we say how long a quarter note or 8th note or 16th note should last; before we know this number all durations are simply relative and unknowable in terms of an exact amount of time they occupy.

Intervals
All intervals within the octave (Augmented, Perfect and Diminished: Unison, 4th, 5th, 8ve; Augmented, Major, Minor and Diminished: 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th) as well as compound odd-numbered intervals (intervals that are larger than an octave and are odd numbered 9th, 11th, 13th)

These need to be known so that you are able to construct melodies, scales and chords effortlessly

Scales
Major, Natural minor, Harmonic minor, Melodic minor, Blues, Locrian mode of the major scale (start and end on the seventh note of the major scale), Phrygian mode of the major scale (start and finish on the 3rd note of the major scale), Gypsy Minor, e.g. D-E^b-F^#-G-A-B^b-C^#-D or as 1-4-1-2-1-4-1 above any starting note

Chords
Triads: 3-note chords, usually Major, minor, augmented or diminished, also sus2, sus4 and sus6
6ths: 4 note chords using the base triads and either a major or minor 6th
Augmented 6ths are minor 7ths and are not usually used in chord construction, there are exceptions such as the various German, Italian, French and Neopolitan 6th chords, but they are rare and tend to be unused in hip-hop/rap/pop
diminished 6ths are perfect 5ths and so are rarely seen
7ths: 4 note chords using the base triads and either a major or minor or diminished 7th
Augmented sevenths are equivalent to octaves and so rarely have a place in chord construction
9ths: 4 note (omit the 5th of the triad this is built on) or 5 note chords using the 7th chords and adding minor, major or augmented 9ths.
The augmented 9th (^#9)is the same as a minor 10th and is used for adding the minor 3rd to a major triad as in the famous Beethoven and Mozart chord aka the Hendrix chord (7^#9)
11ths: 4 note (omit the 5th and the root) or 5 (omit the 5th) note or 6 note chords using the diminished, perfect and augmented 11th.
The 11th is the equivalent of the 4th and is used to add colour tones to a chod.
The dim 11th (^b11) is used to add a major 3rd to a minor based chord
The P11th (11) is used to add the P4th to the chord in a non-suspension function.
The aug 11th (^#11) is used to add the ^b5/^#4 to a chord without having to change the 5th.
13ths: 4 note (omit the 5th and the root and the 9th/11th) or 5 (omit the 5th and the root) note or 6 note (omit the 5th) or 7 note chords using the augmented, major or minor 13th.
The augmented 13th (^#13) is used in much the same way as the augmented 6th, although they also allow for a minor 7th interval to played against the major 7th.
The Major 13th (13) is used to add the colour of the sixth to the chord
The minor 13th (^b13) is used to add the flavour of the ^#5 to a chord that already contains a 5th or as a substitute for the 5th when it is omitted.
6/9 Is a 4 note chord that contains the root, 3rd, 6th and 9th. it is a more consonant chord than the various 9th chords containing 7ths and is used for a sweeter sound in jazz and other musical forms.

Structure/Form
Different sections within a piece of music

Dynamics
Loud and soft and how to transition between

Expressive techniques
The way different instruments can make sounds as well as the standard ideas of legato, tenuto, slurs, staccatto, marcato, etc...

Instruments and their Ranges
Every instrument has a fixed playing range either in terms of the highest notes they can produce and definitely in terms of the lowest notes they can produce. Knowing these ranges will help you to avoid problems if you decide to use real musicians to play your pieces later on; e.g. just because your keyboard controller and your daw let you play notes that are out of range does not necessarily mean that you will be able to have real musicians do the same......

[BeatGenerals]

Well homie gave you everything you need to know right there lol.