Mr. P from the forums has posted a great tutorial on how to play “Make It Rain” produced by Scott Storch. Check out the thread here: http://hiphop-producer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=69

Here are the notes of Make it rain.

Tempo is 74,645

First The Intro

Low Strings

Low Strings Variation

Chorus Horns

Chorus Horns Variation

Image-Line has released the final version of FL Studio 8.

FL Studio (former Fruity Loops) has become a very popular DAW (digital audio workstation) among beginners as well as professionals because of its flexibility and user-friendliness.

New features include OGG-support, the Slicex sample slicer, the FL Synthmaker, and the Fruity Limiter.

Download the demo here

The newly started Hiphop producer website Hiphopmakers.com has interviewed NFX - the guy behind the hugely successful FL Studio community Warbeats.com which houses over 45,000 members.

Warbeats.com, which was started in 2005, has lately become very popular among FL Studio beginners.

NFX answers questions such as why he chose FL Studio as his main focus, what his objective is for the site, and whether or not he raps.

Read the interview here!

If this helps you, please go on Youtube and give this video a good rating! Thanks.

If you liked this guide and want to see more, you can request a song you want to see the notes for.

Sheet music and piano roll (click to enlarge)

Intro

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The hiphop-producer.com forum just got relaunched and now has a store offering hip hop drum kit downloads. Downloading these kits does not require cash. You trade forum points for the drum kits. Go here to sign up for the forum.

You earn 1 forum point for each post you make. Each drum kit costs 10 forum points. Currently the store has the following drum kits:

• Dr. Dre
• Scott Storch
• Timbaland
• Swizz Beatz
• Just Blaze
• Kanye West
• G-Unit
• Lil Jon
• Neptunes
• Mobb Deep
• Cash Money
• Tony B

I just started classes this week and my schedule brutal! I’m taking 5 courses, one of which is 9 hours a week. I’ll try squeeze in some time to post another tutorial pretty soon. Let me know what you want to see in a tutorial.

I head back to the streets of West Philly today to continue school at UPenn. Ok, UPenn campus is not really the streets, but it’s right next to it. My flight from Seattle is at 12:20pm PST and I arrive in Philly at 10:10pm EST. Looonnngg flight. So no posts this Monday, but I’ll add new stuff tomorrow.

Jake Ludington’s MediaBlab shows you how to make your own microphone pop screen for $9.66. These generally go for around $30 if you were to buy one. This is an excellent project to try for your home studio especially if you are a vocalist. It helps get rid of the spiking “s”, “pfts”, and “ch” sounds that can ruin a track.

One of the bigger hassles in editing voice audio tracks is cleaning up loud pops in the recording where plosive ‘p’ and ‘b’ sounds cause a burst of volume. These are easily avoided by placing a screen between the person speaking or singing and the microphone.

Another dope video on Youtube showing you how to play Forgot About Dre on piano by ItzDiPzBaby, but again does not show you the notes. I’ve laid out the notes for you all both in sheet music notation and piano roll notation. Enjoy!

Sheet music and piano roll notation (click to enlarge)

Strings

Bass

That funky synth instrument