![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every two weeks, he packages around 40 of his best loops to send to established producers he connected with on Instagram. They range in length and complexity: some incorporate one or two different sounds, while others are multi-layered miniature compositions. These loops are snippets of original music that Prasad composes at his computer, melodic ideas that might serve as the instrumental hook of a song-but without the rest of the song attached. “Then I heard about loops, and I just started doing that.” “I would practice every day trying to make beats,” he says. Initially he attempted to replicate what he saw in beatmaking tutorials from producers like Nick Mira (“Lucid Dreams”) and KBeaZy (Kehlani’s “Toxic”). Prasad first started messing around with production software about 18 months ago. Online, he’s part of a producer community that congregates around livestreams and beat marketplaces, hoping to learn the production trick or make the connection that will land them their big break. When he’s not in class, the 16-year-old spends most of his time making music in his bedroom in the suburbs of San Jose, California. High school sophomore Vikas Prasad has one main goal: score a production placement with a major rap artist before the end of the school year.
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