Beat making is fun, exciting, controversial, and incredibly prevalent throughout the world of music today. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is with you every day, at nearly every turn no matter where you go. From Tokyo to Islamabad, the art of the beat is happily practiced, proliferated and pounded out through speakers all over the globe and it is here to stay. Some questions that the uninitiated or the curious and aspiring computer music maker might ask are: