From Motown To Hip Hop - Produce Your Own Music And Make Your Beats

By Michael Bell

Growing up in the City of Detroit during the early sixties was a memorable era for music. It was a period of time whereby the unique sounding records of Motown were being played and heard throughout the streets, nightclubs, house parties and radio stations everywhere. It was common to have the soulful R and B records playing on the jukeboxes while people have been dancing in the streets or singing in the beauty parlors and barber shops to the emotional songs that eventually captivated the hearts and minds of millions of folks around the whole world. Music cds and Hip Hop music were not heard of during that period, it was all about the vinyl records and rhythm and blues soul.

The songs that were written by Motown songwriters during the 60s & 70s had so much meaning. They were songs that spoke about true love, current events and the heartache and pains of life experiences. Oh yes, Motown had it going on! Their music became universal music. Many of the soulful tunes crossed over into other markets such as pop, jazz, blues, etc But just like George Benson said in one of his recordings Everything Must Change, and sure enough, he was right about the music.

After giving so many years service and great music to the City of Detroit, Motown moved out and Rap/Hip Hop moved in. Instead of hearing someone singing My Baby Loves Me or My Girl, you began to hear new sounding lyrics of street experience expressed in rhythms with the mouth, chest, hands and feet as such had never been heard before.

This new sound called Rap evolved in the early 80s and took off as a sky rocket in the late 90s and New Millennium as Hip Hop/Rap. Even today Rap/Hip Hop music is still a multi billion dollar genre. Millions of cds and videos are being sold every single year in the Hip Hop scene of music. And there is no evidence that Hip Hop will be slowing down or taking a back seat to anyone in the near future.

So what happened to the Motown sound. did it die out? No! The Motown sound will never die out. It will always play a significant part in the hearts of millions who embraced its sound back in the early 60s, and continued to pass that sound on to their children throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Sometimes you just have to move over and let the new kids on the block have a turn in expressing their musical talents, songs and ideas. That is what Motown did, it moved over-not out. And now the Hip Hop artists and singers are not the new kids on the scene anymore, for they have taken their place to express and define themselves musically, just like the rhythm and blues artists took their standing or expressed themselves in the Motown era.

That is how we have evolved from Motown to Hip Hop! You can now produce your own Hip Hop tunes yourself with the world's best music production machine called SonicProducer. You can create thousands of great beats and you don't even need to be a professional musician or have any experience in songwriting or producing. It has been made super easy and user friendly to create your own beats and you won't believe the quality of the sounds it has been packed with.

SonicProducer is an incredible up to date music sequencer with mp3 export capability. SonicProducer also features music production tutorials with different keyboards, studios as well as tutorials and videos on how to use the Sonic Producer software. All this can be obtained online through the "members area" and encompasses everything including the software, sounds and the system of video lessons and documentation. - 30217

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