A few more beatails

Hello again,

It has been a few days since my last post and that is mainly due to the fact that busy over here since Sarah needs to finish up her Master thesis and she can't be all super smart when there is a little monster running around the house asking her to play the same YouTube video for the millionth time in a row. 

(WARNING: if you don't want your child to get addicted to the computer, make sure he or she is nowhere near when you play the below)

This is the dreadful video:

Yeah, it's not even moving pictures! Just a still image of Pippi! 

Anyway, you might be thinking: "Mayu, this post has nothing to do with the clever play on words in your title. I was expecting some details on your beat making or something."

And of course you are correct, that was more of a side note I guess. So let's get to the topic of this post: Beats.

I wanted to give you some more info on the whys and the hows of me making beats. First of all, I am a complete beginner in making beats and everything I know I have taught myself by trial and error and looking up stuff on the internet.The first time I got into trying to make beats was probably like 10 years ago with my friend Sören, back in Berlin. We were really into German rap, specifically anything from a guy called Kool Savas and we were inspired by him I guess. Of course we didn't know shit about making music so we got Fruity Loops and started experimenting. I got more into the beat making part whereas Sören stuck to writing raps. We even formed a "crew" called the Beam Brothers Crew, which consisted of Sören, his brother Björn and me. Haha, what a crew that was! We called it the Beam Brothers Crew because back then our drink of preference was Jim Beam whisky. Sooooooooo original, I know.

Anyway, this obviously never got any further than being a hobby and just for fun (I am sure it never will be more), but I do enjoy making music and it was definitely a lot of fun. I even ended up recording a song back then with a beat that I made and lyrics that I wrote. Sören also has a part at the end of the song. Even though the song is pretty bad quality I do feel kind of proud about it just because everything in it was done by us. We recorded it on Sören's PC with a shitty microphone in his basement. We never got to really finish it, because I ended up moving to Costa Rica, but here it is (contains harsh language): 

Rapkannibale feat. Sören - Was Willst Du? (What do you want?)

Now you will most likely not understand much of it since it is mostly German. But there is also some English and Spanish in there in case you speak any of those. If you did understand any of it, you might have noticed that is all pretty immature "I am better than you" stuff with a lot of bad words thrown in. Well, you know, back then we were really into these aggressive rap artists and so I just went with what I knew and liked.  Looking back it makes me smile and brings back cool memories. Oh and "Rapkannibale" is my rap name by the way. But please don't start calling me that in public. :-)

I stopped making beats for many years either because I didn't have a computer set up that could handle the software or because I was less motivated without my crew, or because of a ton of other little reasons. But one day I decided I would try to get back into it. So I got the newest version of FL Studio (which used to be called Fruity Loops back in the day), and just started experimenting. The beat that I posted earlier is the first one I created with this new program and I am actually actively trying to learn how to become better and make them sound more professional. I even asked a guy at work who has some experience with this kind of stuff for his opinion. His name is Hampus. Yes, that is his real name. I don't plan on ever doing this to earn a living of course. It is, and will remain a hobby, but I would like to get better at it, just for myself I guess.

So, I'm not sure any of you even like this kind of music, but even if you don't you at least learned something new about me. Well most of you anyway. Some of you already knew this part of my personal history.

So, do you guys have any hobbies that you really enjoy even though you are not really all that good at them? Let me know in the comments below.

Until next time!