Beat This! Competition - August 9-10, 2023

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The next competition will be from August 9-10th! See the information below.

Signups

The signups will be on August 9th at 12pm ET/EST, and end around 8pm ET, or until we have enough contestants (whichever comes first - depending on the theme).
Voting will be for one day, on August 10th, where the results will be posted the same day.

Check out the Beat This! ranks: https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/?cat=bthis

*Note: check out this site to find out the correct time difference for your timezone:

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The Signup page is here (it will open up on the signup day)​

Theme: SAMPLE FLIP
Time Limit: 2 minutes
*Vocal Track Allowed?: NO
**Vocal Snippets Allowed?: YES

• You must make a beat by flipping this song.
• You can also download the MP3 here: [download mp3]
• We must be able to hear the sample from the original song!

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* VOCAL TRACK ALLOWED? This means you can have a full vocal track with your beat (acapella, for example).
** VOCAL SNIPPETS ALLOWED? This means you can have vocal snippets in your beat (very short vocal parts, for example). This is where you can also have an intro with talking (like from a movie).
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Voting

If you are competing, you will be able to vote but not for yourself. DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT! I will be watching for cheaters. This means you cannot sign up under different names or get your friends and family to sign up either. If you are caught cheating you could be banned.

Voting Criteria

You can use whatever sounds you want, samples, synths, just remember to read the rules for the rest of the restrictions. What the judges will be looking for is originality, creativity, mixing skills and overall dopeness!

Beats

All the beats will now be displayed in a random order and without any names. All you will see is: Beat #001, Beat #002, etc. This is so that there is no favoritism when voting.

Rules

If you're not sure about the rules, read this thread.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the competition, please post them in here.

 

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Cooking

 

[Dusty B]

Shit man, this is a hard one to flip. Really testing me for being just a couple weeks back into it

 

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If anyone is having trouble with this song, don't just focus on the music like the strings at the beginning. The first thing I noticed was the singing and the notes in that. Maybe follow along and make a melody then use parts of the song on top or something.

 

[TWU]

If anyone is having trouble with this song, don't just focus on the music like the strings at the beginning. The first thing I noticed was the singing and the notes in that. Maybe follow along and make a melody then use parts of the song on top or something.

Seriously, although the sound of her voice is a little on the thin side, overall it's pretty clean and (mostly) in tune. So it could be very dope to put some of it in to aim for more creativity...

To me this song has everything a sample needs. Cool chord progression, smooth sugary flavors (mix is clean af!) and slow rhythm without too much annoying drums to work around.
Should be fairly easy to flip...

 

[VVS]

How is this a hard flip? This was the easiest flip I've done in a while.

 

[Iron Keys]

How is this a hard flip? This was the easiest flip I've done in a while.

Done already ?

 

[VVS]

Done already ?

I am actually. I might tweak the mix a bit but the sequence is solid.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Suppose I should get started on something, havent done much the last few days

 

[Iron Keys]

Suppose I should get started on something, havent done much the last few days

I won't get a chance til the weekend , maybe.

Was really hard getting something good sounding out of this Benny Hill theme

 

[Iron Keys]

Jokes aside, I really struggle with sampling. Minus the fact that my Warzone win was all beats using sampling.

Can't get around the fact that all the parts are together so end up with like a perc and a bass and a guitar as well as the vocal or whatever. Gets in the way and all out of time shit. Would rather have access to the mulitracks and remix.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Jokes aside, I really struggle with sampling. Minus the fact that my Warzone win was all beats using sampling.

Can't get around the fact that all the parts are together so end up with like a perc and a bass and a guitar as well as the vocal or whatever. Gets in the way and all out of time shit. Would rather have access to the mulitracks and remix.

Id like a Veyron, but here I am with a Ford Focus. Sometimes you just have to make do with what you have, I try to get involved in as many sampleflips as I can because I love the challenge of having to come up with something from something Id probably never have chosen as a sample had I been looking. Its the challenge of it that I like more than anything. Some samples lend themselves very well to sampling, others can be more challenging, not going to lie, this one is more challenging than many others Ive flipped. For one its in E min which is a key I dont often use, and the samples are pretty frequency dense which makes layering them a bit difficult without frequencies clashing. But Im getting there, been procrastinating since I woke up and should get back to my beat though.

 

[VVS]

 

[Iron Keys]

not going to lie, this one is more challenging than many others Ive flipped. For one its in E min which is a key I dont often use

Sources was saying it's a minor. But I didn't think so

e min is pretty easy, just don't play F.

 

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Sources was saying it's a minor. But I didn't think so

e min is pretty easy, just don't play F.

 

[Iron Keys]

So my sampling is going alright for this.

But I've not done with it what I intended. And that bothers me.

I also think I could do far far more with the way it's going... however... as always... if it's going kind of alright, then I don't bother making it harder to try get something incredible.

 

[V.J. Retro]

The next competition will be from August 9-10th! See the information below.

Signups

The signups will be on August 9th at 12pm ET/EST, and end around 8pm ET, or until we have enough contestants (whichever comes first - depending on the theme).
Voting will be for one day, on August 10th, where the results will be posted the same day.

Check out the Beat This! ranks: https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/?cat=bthis

*Note: check out this site to find out the correct time difference for your timezone:

World Clock & Time Converter

Effortless time conversion and world time. Schedule conference calls, webinars & online meetings, plan travel and track flight arrival time across time zones.

www.worldtimebuddy.com

The Signup page is here (it will open up on the signup day)​

Theme: SAMPLE FLIP
Time Limit: 2 minutes
*Vocal Track Allowed?: NO
**Vocal Snippets Allowed?: YES

• You must make a beat by flipping this song.
• You can also download the MP3 here: [download mp3]
• We must be able to hear the sample from the original song!

===========
* VOCAL TRACK ALLOWED? This means you can have a full vocal track with your beat (acapella, for example).
** VOCAL SNIPPETS ALLOWED? This means you can have vocal snippets in your beat (very short vocal parts, for example). This is where you can also have an intro with talking (like from a movie).
===========

Voting

If you are competing, you will be able to vote but not for yourself. DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT! I will be watching for cheaters. This means you cannot sign up under different names or get your friends and family to sign up either. If you are caught cheating you could be banned.

Voting Criteria

You can use whatever sounds you want, samples, synths, just remember to read the rules for the rest of the restrictions. What the judges will be looking for is originality, creativity, mixing skills and overall dopeness!

Beats

All the beats will now be displayed in a random order and without any names. All you will see is: Beat #001, Beat #002, etc. This is so that there is no favoritism when voting.

Rules

If you're not sure about the rules, read this thread.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the competition, please post them in here.

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Holy S**t! I immediately recognized this song from a sample flip.

 

[Dusty B]

Alright, I got something. Wrapping up mixing and final touches. Took me a bit to get it going, but I think I have something. Now just need to make sure I remember to upload on sign up day

 

[VVS]

The sample flip battles to me are more interesting than the regular beat battles. My ears can only handle so many 3 note short yellow bus melodies.

 

[Iron Keys]

3 note short yellow bus melodies

Ain't the trapbois your clan?