| Go with your first instinct. Go with your "GUT"!!! If you have 10 CD's full of potential beats, listen through them quickly and make a note of ones that interest you in the first 1-2 seconds. My experience has been that even if a beat it bangin', if it has a long fruity intro before the "good" part then it's probably passe-
which is to say that when major artists are reviewing CD's of beats that are potentially going to go on a record, if it starts with a string part, they hit the skip button within 1 second of the beginning. The process generally seems to involve a fair amount of pushing the "skip" button and saying "no" "no" "no" "wack!!" "no" "no" "hmmmmmmmm, no" etc....
Eventually one or two beats will jump out at you as the ones you keep wanting to hear. That doesn't mean they are guaranteed to go to #1 once you spit on them but the key of course is to find something that YOU (the artist, I am assuming) are moved enough by that you want to hear it over and over and are driven to write on. After that it's all on you (And your distribution) to get to #1!!! |