Have you guys heard of the producer Dirty Vans? Those are the types of beats i would like to make but i just cant seem to get to it. Check him out & let me know if you guys have any advice
you just made a thread yesterday asking what equipment you needed to get started.
I don't think your quite far enough into it yet to be saying "you just cant seem to get it" lol. Just keep practicing and researching. You aren't gonna learn how to make a beat by staring at your daw if you don't know what you're staring at. There is a huge learning curve before you should even get into the actual composing part of it. With that being said, you can never go wrong by practicing 'hands on' within your DAW. But look at it as that, practice to supplement what you are researching and learning. If you start comparing your beats to who you want to be like right now you are just gonna get frustrated and quit.
Amazing how many people these days think they can just sit down and make a beat. The accessibility to software and bedroom producing has become easier for the masses, it doesn't mean the learning process in order to be able to do that has. That will always be the same. Boring ass music theory and boring ass research. In my opinion anyway, well my old opinion, not anymore, now i love learning new stuff. I'm sure some people like it from the start haha. Once you get deeper into it, the research will become a passion and you will actually WANT to do it. Until then, you just need to realize its something that needs to be done before you can just open your daw and start making beats like you are finding done by paid professionals.
I don't mean study for a weekend. This could take months or even years before you are comfortable putting together a beat that will satisfy you. Still wanna do it? If you don't, then you (I don't like saying this but its true) shouldn't waste your time, because the only thing i can tell you for sure is it is going to take a lot more time then you want it to for you to be able to just sit down and comfortably compose a piece that will satisfy you. If you can accept that, then good. Time to get started. Lots of people start with music theory, which is a great place to start. Id recommend it. I started with engineering aspects first for my own personal reasons but you don't need to worry about doing that, go with theory first. I am just getting to the point where I am starting to learn music theory and Ive been researching and studying for close to a year. Once you get music theory down and start tinkering with your daw, then you can start researching the engineering aspects that are relevant to what you need in your current production. Only reason i started studying engineering first before theory is because I was on a time line and wanted to absorb as much as I could about engineering before I started school for it (which I am in now) so I wouldn't have to tackle the learning curve in school and could just get right into projects. Plus we do music theory from the ground up in school so I wasn't too rushed on it (although I still have been casually studying it, you cant go wrong with a basic understanding of scales, chords, etc..)