How to make a hip-hop beat

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Step 2: The hi-hats come next. We add a fizzy one on the downbeat of each bar, followed by a mostly eighth-note pattern throughout. We add a 16th-note at the end of bars 2 and 4 of our four-bar loop, too. These are treated to a little extra top end via Logic’s Channel EQ plug-in. Quantise strength is set to 80%.

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