what age were u when u started

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just curious seeing how old u were when u started making beats probly already a thread on this
 
I dont' "make beats" ... I create, play, record, mix and produce music.
 
Thats real hazy... well if you mean attempting to make tracks to rap over, then roughly 1998, 1999 when I was 16. When it comes to playing around and trying to create melodies, and n ot necessarily record any of it, then something between 89 and 91 when I was like 8.

Wow... life comes at you fast.. I just realized I can say now "I was playing on a yamaha keyboard before some of you were born!"
 
I started making beats (or whatever the **** you niggas wanna call it) when I was about 16 or 17.

Some cat owed my man some money, so my man took his DJ equipment as payment. I was DJing at the time, so I already had turntables, but the mixer from homeboy's setup looked ill, and I had to have it. Anyway, I discovered that it had the ability to sample a couple of seconds of audio... Fell in love with sampling from that day forward.

I really started doing it on the serious tip about 3 or 4 years after that when this Indian cat and an artist he was working with took me under their wing (doldier status, haha). That's when I learned why the MPC was the main tool of the trade. Good memories!

[Edit]: I'll be 29 this year.

-AD
 
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i started last year in november, i was 15 n i still am
 
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krushing said:
I never really started "making beats".
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dansgold said:
I dont' "make beats" ... I create, play, record, mix and produce music.
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My sentiments exactly :)

BUT if you catch me uttering or writing the phrase "to make a beat", I'm most certainly referring to the process of producing a drum/percussion part. Actually I remember it took me a while to catch up to the fact that a "beat" refers to a whole instrumental arrangement in certain contexts :D ... Coming from quite an electronic music background where "beat" had always had a distinct meaning to me, referring to something else than the rhythm parts with "beat" seemed quite counter-intuitive. [Edit: and in that sense, I never specifically decided to start "making beats" in the sense the original poster most likely means. I decided to start making music - and "making beats", as in working out how to compose rhythm lines, was a part of that.]

The age thing: started playing the keyboard at elementary school, began to experiment with tracking my own music using a computer when I was about 11 or 12.
 
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A few months before i turned fourteen. I'm turning 15 in two months
 
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i ****ed around with Garageband when i was 10 and when i was 12 i got reason. i'm 14 now btw. i got interested in really making my own music/beats when i joined this site but i got reason in like december. i can't believe how far i've gone. i'm so much better at making beats than i was when i started.
 
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