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How to Make a Boom Bap Beat: Chop, Drums and Dirt
Boom bap is a workflow as much as a genre: find the loop, cut it against the grid, program drums that lean back and keep the low end honest. Here is the whole chain, in order.

How to Arrange a Beat: Intro, Verse and Hook
A loop is raw material. The arrangement is the set of decisions around it: when the drums enter, where the low end disappears and how long the hook runs before it repeats.

How to Make a Reggaeton Beat: Dembow, 808 and Chords
The dembow is a contract with the dancefloor. Program it first, tune the 808 to the key and keep the melody short enough to sing back after one listen.
