Being a modern music producer for over a decade and producing many hip hop instrumentals which you can check out on BeatStars, I would like to share some crucial information which I have learned from the past.

If there's anyone asking themselves on what should I use? Claps or Snare samples?

Then I have the answer for you based on being a hip hop music producer for over a decade. My simple answer is, it's all based on what style of hip hop track you are trying to produce!

Yes, it's as simple as that, to be honest at a point I used to mix claps and snares at the same time, overlapping them for dirty south style of genre beats when I was producing back in 2014, these were a big inspiration within the music industry.

But when it comes to selecting Claps or Snares, I would recommend the hip-hop music producer to ask these question listed below.

• The sub-genre of hip-hop beats which you are trying to produce, what is the usual sample within this genre, is it a clap or a snare?
• Depending on the sub hip-hop genre you are producing, if you listen to 10 different tracks/songs online within the genre you are producing what do you hear? Snare? Or a clap?

Now depending on the results above, you should stick to a similar style of clap or snare.

This helps allot when trying to produce sub-genre hip-hop beats, because these sub-genre hip hop composition usually have a certain patterns and structures, which uses certain instruments, certain kicks, certain snares, certain claps and the list goes on.

Here is a list of some hip hop sub-genres.

Personally, In my opinion, it all about planning the actual sub-genre which the music producer is producing, you see each sub-genre for example, trap beats, dark trap beats, UK drill beats, mellow story telling beats, boom bap beats, 808 beats and artist inspired style of beats. All of these have a sub-genre (within hip-hop) which has a certain type of tempo, instruments, drum pattern layouts and virtual instrumental patterns.

So listening and gaining inspiration from similar hip-hop sub-genre compositions, is not only crucial for all music producers in my opinion, but also important when someone is trying to produce a certain type of hip-hop beat. This is my personal opinion.

I hope this will help all upcoming hip-hop producers make the correct choices when it comes to hip hop production. Best of luck in your hip-hop compositions!

My personal opinion and preference

As a music producer who has been producing for almost 20 years, well started when I was 16, so I let you guys guess my age, yes I am an old, in fact I have gray hair which has started growing on my face. Time has flown so quick, and..... yes, anyway dint start producing professional till over a decade ago.

I have always stuck to using sampled (WAV) style drum samples, and have never ever constructed an instrumental or a beat composition using any drum machine VST plugins.

Now I know this is bad, since I have fully loaded MPC on my midi keyboard and should be using it with drum machine VST plugins.... right?

The truth is, actually no, it's all based on personal preference for me, everyone has their own way of making music, it's a form of art, and it all depends on the users' preference in my opinion.

My personal choice

I mean I love using drum kits such as Unison, Loopmasters and Cymatics, since these are main game players when it comes to sampled kicks, snares, hi hats, percussions and etc, they have loads of great free drum kits and constructions kids with many great samples and loops to use for any style of projects.

But also there are some awesome drum machine style (VST) kits which I have used in the past but never actually composed a single track/project using them, drum machine VSTs from UJAM the beat maker series for instance, these were actually given to me by UJAM couple of years ago, a free promotion which I don't for them on my YouTube, in fact; they sounded phenomenal, but I found that using my own library of samples was a more comforting choice.

Will I ever use drum machine VST plugins?

The truth lies within the destiny of the future, I mean I am not too sure about this and still optimistic, I like the way I currently use sampled drum samples within construction kits, I tend to find these have higher quality and more manipulation editing options.

But there are some very cool drum machines which I wanted to try, but the sounds they provide are limited, and don't offer much versatility when it comes to editing them. Saying that, some of the newly developed drum machine VST plugin comes with tonnes of features, but they are quite expensive!

I wanted to see what other music producers think?

What is your choice? Drop a reply to this topic below, would be interesting to see what other music producers think and prefer!

I wanted to share my top 5 free to trap style drum sample kits.

These are the 5 free sound packs which I would recommend all trap style genre producers to download and try inside their music production audio unit software packages.

1. Orchid Drum sample kit

3GB of free drum samples and loops

I have used this drum kit for many years, some hard hitting kicks, nice snares and awesome hi -hats, some nice one-shot samples as well as some nice loops. Pretty cool sound pack to add to any trap music production studio sample library.

2. Trap starter pack

This is a very nice royalty-free drum samples pack, with tons of awesome samples and loops for any modern music trap producer. Over 180 high quality samples which include, kicks, snares, claps, melody loops, hi hats and so much more.

Well worth downloading and adding this to any DAW.

3. Unison Free Trap Sample Pack

I only started using this drum samples pack not long ago, since I recently downloaded this drum sound pack, but I must admit, some amazing samples in this pack, all 100% royalty-free. 36 one-shot drum samples such as kicks, snares, hi hats, percussions and so much more.

I highly recommend this drum kit for any trap music producer!

4. Cobra - Hip Hop Sample Pack

This drum pack is great for trap producers looking to make some fire beats, comes with royalty-free drum samples and drum loops, as well as free melody loops, I had this drum sample kit in my music production library for over 5 years! Still a very nice drum samples pack to go to and use. 

5. Hip Hop N Trap Vol 1

This one is currently as a freebie on sample sound music. After doing some research, I came across this awesome drum sample pack, this simply contains trap drum samples that you would expect from a trap drum samples pack. 

Some very nice 808 drum loops, one-shots samples and loads of great sounds! 146 high quality free to use and royalty-free trap drum samples.

Not sure if this one will be free forever, but it's currently on 100% sale, which makes it free to download.

So there you go, guys, my top 5 free to download and use trap drum sample kits and sound packs when it comes to music production. 

If you have any others you would like to add to this list, leave a reply below.

I have decided to make a list of some of the best rock drum sound packs rock samples and loops.

To be honest there is not a huge choice on this genre online, despite other genres booming with 100+ different sound packs per genre, when it comes to Rock and industrial types sounds such as rock kicks, rock snares, rock hi-hats or even rock type of percussion sounds.

So we decided to make a list of some of the best rock drum samples available online.

1. Free Rock Drum Loops & Sounds

All these samples are located at Looperman, over 100 free rock-inspired drum loops and simple rock drum stems, you must log in and register to download, all downloads are free and all drum samples and loops are royalty-free, there are probably over and around 500+ rock drum samples and loops located on looperman. Definitely worth checking out.

Download - Free Rock Drum loops and Sounds

2. Rock Kit With Kick, Snare, Toms and Cymbals

28 free rock and indie-style single drum stems for rock and indie-style music production, all samples are high quality (24-bit WAV samples). Ready for Windows or macOS users, the download comes to around 10MB and these are some very cool and useful rock-style drum samples and drum loops. Simply click on the download button and the download will start instantly!

Download - Rock Kit with Rock kick, rock snare, rock toms and rock cymbals

3. Rock Drum Sample Kick Sounds

When it comes to different styles of rock style kicks for music production, selecting the correct kick for any project is crucial. Sample focus has been releasing tons of free-to-download kick sounds, uploaded by users and creators, so do check each sound license, well worth checking out. There are littery tons and tons of cool free-to-download kick rock drum samples sound and kick samples.

Download - Rock drum sample kick sounds

4. The Rock Drum Kit Pack – Rock Samples

Here we have some nice rock drum samples pack which has been around for many years, comes with hi-hats, kicks, snares and rock sample loops. Over-all there are around 64 cool rock drum sample sounds inside this rock sound pack. Instant download when you click on the download button.

Download - The Rock Drum Kit Pack

5. Slingerland Kit With Black Beauty Snare

Indie drums are listed here again, the 2nd time, this time with Slingerland Kit, 23 very cool indie and rock style drum samples which are free to download. These are all individual single-stem samples, there are no loops inside this rock pack.

Download - Slingerland Rock-inspired drum sound Kit

6. The Metal Kick Drum

Free to download Kicks, snares, toms, rock presets, 4 different Metal Kick-inspired styles of drum samples located on themetalkickdrum

Download - Metal Kick, snare, toms and metal rock-inspired presets

So here is a list of some very cool free-to-download rock drum samples and rock drum sounds for any modern style of music producer.

I hope you guys enjoy this list of Rock drum kits!

Selected by myself, peace and love! PAV!

A cool drum kit to add to any old classic type of rap and hip-hop beat. If you’re into your classic hip-hop and trap style of drum samples, then the Free Boom Bap drum kit is well worth grabbing.

Designed by ProducerGrind

Comes with;

• Nice Snares and Kicks
• Cymbals
• Open Hats
• Drum Breaks
• FX

Download Link

1990s boom bap drum kit comes with over 200 drum samples. designed with that vintage sound output from their classic hip-hop drum machines.

• 24bit samples
• Over 200 one-shot samples ready to import into your major DAW

Direct Download Link

If you link this drum kit then make sure to check out more cool rap/hip-hop drum samples from sample cartel

This pack has 66 nice Lofi hip-hop and rap drum samples, ready to import into any DAW which supports the import of wav samples.

Check out the artwork below;

This 1990s hip-hop drum kit consists of;

• Hi-Hats
• Kicks
• Snares
• Oh Hats and hat rolls

Direct Download LINK

more drum kits from sample cartel right here

Check out the list below, feel free to add your links to this list if you wish to add more "royalty-free drum kits" only!

Top Drum kits from Cymatics for trap and hip-hop producers

1. Trap - Starter Pack DOWNLOAD (Free download, free registration required)
2. Lofi - Starter pack DOWNLOAD  (Free download, free registration required)
3. Cobra - Hip Hop Sample Pack DOWNLOAD (Free download, free registration required)
4. FL Studio Starter Pack DOWNLOAD (Free download, free registration required)
5. Oracle 3 x Hip-Hop Packs with 808 DOWNLOAD (Free download, free registration required)

Other cool royalty-free hip-hop and trap drum kits that you can download from other Music Production websites and external/3rd-party Music Production Blogs

1. Free Roland 808 Drum kit DOWNLOAD (instant download, 7.3MB)
2. NOIZZ - HUGE collection of free Hip Hop kits -DOWNLOAD (Free download, free registration required)
3. Over 10 Cool Free Drum Kits DOWNLOAD (email subscription required)

Top Royalty free drum kits from DJ Pain

1. Unfinished Story sample kit DOWNLOAD (Free download, email verification required)
2. Hip Hop Elements DOWNLOAD (instant download on click)
3. Hip Hop Elements V2 DOWNLOAD (instant download on click)

This is a cool list of drum kits to have to start off with producing some epic hip-hop and trap beats, feel free to add to this list below.

HAVE FUN! :)

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If you are a music producer, starting off and want to make some beats for your fans, then go for it! if you would like to add any other drum kits to this list simply post the links below;

1. The Rock Drum Kit Pack – Rock Samples Loads of free samples and loops for rock-inspired beats and rock track
2. Free Dirty South Drum Kit - Dirty south inspired drum kit and drum samples
3. Drillers – Free UK Drill Drum Kit by BVKER – Drill Drum Samples - Free drill Drum Kit
4. Free Reggae Drum Kit - free Reggae samples and drum loops
5. Free 808 BD Kicks Drum Kit - Free 808 Kicks
6. Timbaland Drum Kit (Inspired) - Timbaland-inspired drum samples
7. Free G-Unit Inspired Drum Kit - Free G-unit inspired drum kit and drum samples
8. Download 3 Neptunes Drum Kits - Download RAP Neptune drum kits
9. Dr Dre Drum Kit Vol 3 - Free Dr Dre inspired drum kits for hip-hop producers
10. 100 Free Hip-Hop Drum Samples - 100 Free Hip-Hop Drum Sample and Drum Loops

Hope you guys enjoy these awesome Drum kits!