Six Places to Find Free Beats

“Six Places to Find Free Beats”

Before you even consider buying beats, you’ve got to know where you can find free beats to download. There are many sites and beat makers (myself included) who are helping artist by creating free beats to download.

It’s a little difficult when you search for beats online and you end up looking at the different Beats By Dre headphones when you’re looking for hip hop and rap instrumentals.

I’ve put together six places you can find free beats to download and also some notes to take into consideration when you find ways to download beats from the internet.

1. YouTube

When it comes to finding free beats, YouTube should be your first stop for two reasons. It’s accessible on mobile, web or app and secondly, the search engine can help give you a continuous stream of beats. Why? This is because YouTube has 2 billion logged in users per month, so they work hard to ensure they’re serving you with relevant results.

The easiest way to get started is to search term search a ’type beat’ of your favourite artist. For example ‘drake type beat 2020’ and the top beats are relevant ones others have used so it’s a relatively tried and true method to find beats that you might like.

Protip: add an ‘x’ after the artists names to find combinations of type beats people are looking for. Eg, ‘drake x’ bring up a ‘drake x Bryson tiller type beat’ which might of interest to you.

2. SoundCloud

Whilst it’s been meme’d with the likes of Lil Pump and the term soundcloud rapper (url), SoundCloud is still a place to find free beats to download as well as beat makers and producers who are creating a sound that might help to expand your listening horizon.

Before marketplaces and YouTube were making it easier for you to listen to beats, Soundcloud was one of the few places to specialise as a place for musicians to upload their tracks. Soundcloud as a platform helped us to find some prominent artist like XXXTentacion, Post Malone, Juice WRLD, 21 Savage, Chance The Rapper. Interesting to note that each of these artist have had a top 5 billboard song too.

3. Instagram

Instagram is another massive platform which is a must when on the search for free beats. The difference between the other two is that you need to use hashtags to find free beats that you might be interested. What makes Instagram a great source is that a wave of younger producers are on Instagram and sharing both their finished beats as well as some of the beats that they’re working on. The messaging in instagram makes it easier to develop relationships with beat makers and give you a chance to build something together. I collab all the time via insta so it’s a good avenue to consider.

4. Online marketplaces

Beatstars is a marketplace that allows music producers to sell beats and give away free beats. There are similar platforms like Airbit, Tracktrain and Soundee that provide these services as well. I like the fact that they’re easy to use and it’s a fair exchange to producers in the game. However it’s not as easy to navigate if you’re unsure of what you’re specifically looking. I use soundee if you’re interested and if you need some questions answered around how my licensing structure works, you can find it on my FAQ page.

5. Twitter

Twitter is a two way channel I’ve found to be successful for artists looking to buy and download free beats. Firstly, you can do the hashtag research to find types of beats similar to Instagram, but the other thing you can do is put out tweets asking people to send beats. Check this twitter search term for send beats and you’ll see what I mean.

6. Your friendly local, organic free producer - me!

Finally, if you’re reading this, I’m hoping it’s because you downloaded my pack of five free beats (free.honest2davis.com) and that some of my other beats might be of interest to you. It’s not an easy maze to navigate so feel free to check out my beat store and check out some of my beats. There’s something there for everyone.