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Producer TIPS via Drumma Boy - hear more at 👉 @drumsquadTV

29 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Drumma Boy explains how to get your beats placed with artists. Show up in person at listening events and artist panels instead of just emailing. Study their catalog, their producers, their tempos. He got on T.I.'s "Paper Trick" by attending T.I. listening parties and learning exactly what the artist wanted.

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sending those beats. Go to the listening events, go to the shows, try to meet the artist in person. Don't hide behind the emails, man. Try to find a way to support these artists. Meet them in person, see a flyer or a show or a panel or whatever that they got coming up. Attend, you know what I mean? Go to the listening events, listen to the music, study the albums, study production that these artists are using on their albums, you know what I mean? And then you start to see what type of sounds that they like, what type of tempos that they like. Man, you really gotta do your homework on these artists if you want to make the placements. T.I. album, I wanted to make I'm Serious, I wanted to make Urban Legend, I wanted to make I'm King. I didn't make a lot of those early T.I. albums, but I kept going to a lot of those T.I. listening events, T.I. album listening parties and whatnot, and studying what sound he was on, studying tune, studying the producers he was working with, and was like, man, let me find my way in. And finally got an opportunity on Paper Trick.