Making a Catchy and Interesting Main Verse Pattern *Tip: To save time, just copy the first 4 bar intro pattern twice, once you are ready to arrange your beat in the playlist editor window. In terms of the drums for the intro of this Trap beat, I chose to just use some layered 808 drums with a few different Trap Snares types layered together to create a unique and catchy snare sequence, which can be seen below. “Trap or Treat”) I decided to make it 8 bars in length and essentially what you want to do with an intro is use only an instrument or two paired with a simple drum beat and another percussion.Īnd on this Trap beat, I used a dark gated pad from my Trap Massive Patches collection to fit with the darker theme of the track. However, of course, the tempo can be changed at any time during the beat making process to your suit the style of beat you are making.Īlso in terms of swing, you generally do not want to set it to more than 15%, which is what I set the swing to on this track to make the beat sound less robotic.įor the intro for this track (i.e.

The first thing to do before you begin making a Trap beat in FL Studio is to set up the basic beat sequencer settings in the FL Studio beat sequencer window.Īnd for this Trap beat, I chose to set the bar length to 8 beats/bar and set the tempo to 94 BPM for the main verses and 92 BPM for the intro and outro.

Setting Up Your Basic Beat Sequencer Settings In FL Studio

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