Over the last few years I have occasionally tried to begin a music career to no avail. Two of the most common programs for making music and the programs that I used were Fruity Loops Studios and Audacity. Fruity Loops is used to make beats my putting together single beats or synthesizers that come with the program. You can also record and add your own beats for a more unique and live sound. Audacity is used to put different songs together or to add verbal audio to a beat. It is a necessity to go through the Fruity Loops tutorial because the program is very diverse and hard to work with from scratch. Audacity is pretty easy to understand by itself but to understand the full abilities of the program is it good to go through the tutorial. Here is a 13 second beat that took me around 25 minutes on Fruity Loops . Enjoy