I love samples and the art of disguising samples but I use producer's kits a lot as well because I support my fellow producers. I have no fear really I just to see how other producer's create because it drives me to create even better. I love it big homie. 💯
Thanks man. This video is much needed and appreciated. I been worrying about uploading finished lps and, how I`m gonna do my youtube videos since I`m a sample based beatmaker.
You do have to worry about someone else using the same sample and neither one of you modifying it and release it. What I do is run Shazam on my phone to listen to the sample to see if someone has already released anything on the unprocessed sample. If they have I have to make mine not sound anything like theirs.
Yeah, this is where having a good ear comes into play. Knowing how to manipulate the sample or chopping it in diff ways. But sometimes people want to just make a dope new version of the original.
Yup, this is what I do as well. The only question I have is this: What happens when Shazam and all the other platforms have such good detection that it's almost impossible to play almost anything and it's recognizable 99.99999% of the time or it sounds to close to something that has already been released?
Some of the most important game out here. Especially when considering the genre we love. Appreciate it bro keep doing what you do!! Love these videos keeping me informed and inspired!
I understand the promotion, but you were better off just telling people to use this Smuggled Keys sample pack to be creative and convert sounds with-in the Smuggled pack.That was my perception from your presentation. I though you were going to show how to take a known sample and covert it to avoid the sample police.
Well it would seem you missed the overall point of this video. I would be doing a disservice of doing work for you. I made this for you to take the info THEN apply it, not for me to do the work then you follow along. And I always want to ensure I provide value with the video as well outside of doing any promotion.
yep ,producers will monetize their beats, and when the next person posts it. the system doesnt know the difference. which why I talk about manipulate the samples as much as possible especially known samples or popular stuff.
Legally you are not aloud to use anyones music as a sample if you dont have there permission, no matter how much you edit it your still practicing copyright infringement. The question really is "Will I be caught" I have sampled stuff without permission and know I'm highly unlikely to be caught so I'm not bothered about it.
this is true. But as a producer its the artists responsibility to clear the sample if they are trying to use it and release it. But I've always been able to manipulate samples unless its something super recognizable.
Whats good man? What do you mean when you say that we don't have to clear the samples in those packs? Does that mean that I can just use anything from those packs, make a beat and release it? Am I in the clear even if it becomes a huge hit? (that's always the plan right?)
meaning that you can reach out to the producer of said sample pack & actually come an agreetment. You still have to "clear" it but your not asking them if you can use it. You're more so saying "Yo, I got some money for you just need your info" lol.
@@theycallmeheat : What happens if you get some money up front but then the beat generates stupid money on the back end, though? According to US Copyright law, the originator, even if they made this kind of early agreement, is well within their rights to pursue further compensation down the line. These plenty of case law supporting this. Clearing a sample and coming to a full agreement is complicated and takes time and legal chops. This is why Major Labels have musicologists and full legal teams on staff. This has always been the case since at least the early 90's, but even more so since the Blurred Lines decision.
First off, that beat is fire. Second, the ugly truth about sampling is this: NOTHING IS SAFE. That includes ANYTHING that hasn't been cleared by the Copyright holder and ANYTHING that you get from even royalty sample packs. The algorithms that these companies are using to identify and strike down content will only get better. In the future it won't matter how well you disguise a sample with pitching, stretching, reversing, or layering a sample. These companies will find a way to identify any sample of any length. Pretty soon the DAWs we PAY to use will have this detection built into the source code and you'll pay $$$ directly from the DAW to identify, license, and release your music to streaming services. I hate to say it but US Copyright law doesn't care about this artform. In the eyes of the law and the industry that makes money off the system these laws provide, see this artform the same way they view graffiti. It's bleak, I know, but sample clearance and licensing has been and will always be for those fortunate enough to have the $$$ to do it. A couple of new developments have convinced me of this: 1. Royalty free samples are being used by artists and being released on major platforms. But if I used the same loop or sample as them for my song, my content wouldn't be able to be posted on the platform, would be removed, or I'd get a copyright strike and lose the money I made on it before and after. This is already happening and the detection is only going to get better with the advancement in AI. 2. Pharrell, who is a multi-millionaire and has the funds and power to hire the best entertainment lawyers in the world, got sued by the estate of Marvin Gaye and LOST because his melodies on Blurred Lines had the same "feel" or "sound" as Gaye's Got To Give It Up. That means that sounds, melodies, feeling, and even song structures can be the basis for having your music removed, demonetized, or worse. The music industry is not the same as it was back in the 90's and 00's. Major labels and entities need to find new ways of making money. They can't extort artists anymore with advances, 360 deals, and studio time agreements, so they're literally using the same technology we'd use to advance the sampling artform to grab us by our ankles and shake money from our pockets. And all of it is based on the fear you described. Jack-booted soldiers from the sample police militia are going to kick down your door and arrest you for taking a piano melody from an obscure 70's jazz flute record. Honestly, I know it sounds bleak, but this artform is going to seriously suffer from all this. We can argue that we're already seeing it's demise or decline with all these "type" beats and other fads and degradation processes. I'm all for making things "simple" and "easy" with sampling but we're dealing with a tsunami waves of sample based producers that won't do anything but loop a comp straight off a drum broker sample pack and call it a day. Nothing wrong with that, but that plus the fact that this artform is already considered a straight up crime at the first chop by the US government tells me that we're about to see a shift. Is there any good news? Yeah, I think so. The amount of sample-based producers in the US will start to decline and new genres and weirdo Hip-Hop-esque trends will become the norm. This means that this artform will be adopted and used by heads in countries that aren't bound by the same copyright laws that people in the US are bound by. The artform won't die and will be improved upon and advanced by non-English speaking sample based producers who don't care about posting their "type" beats on beat stars or whether they'll get de-monetized by some Capitol records subsidiary for having the same "feel" or "sound" as Bob James. Instead what they'll have is, following the Black Music Tradition, an environment where no ideas are off the table and sample based production is truly a blank canvas with infinite possibilities. And like everything else, we'll flock to it because it will have the same making that Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Rock n Roll, and all the other genre's had at their start: the music and traditions of the old with all possibilities of the new at their disposal. This won't be possible until US Copyright law is changed, and the chances of that ever happening are close to nil. Peace!
Yeah. I missed cooking with my keys. Lol, but the layout of the Atom SQ just got boring to me. I wish it was more like mpc style then it would have stayed. But I’m back on my mpk
I think nothing happens unless a major grabs it and you don't clear it. You might get a copyright strike and have to take the music down from some platforms, but you aren't likely going to get sued unless you are making some real money off of it. My advice would be, if you think a song will be placed with a major, do your due diligence and get the sample cleared ahead of time so you as the producer doesn't have to give your portion of the publishing to the original owner of the music once it's released. If a song does well and the sample is not cleared, the label will take the publishing from the producer in most cases, not the artist.
Another option, if you're selling beats to MC's, is to hand over the responsibility of clearing and licensing samples to the MC or the label. You will just have to have full disclosure with them and give them the source of every single sample (which can be kept confidential as well) that you use din the production. So you're not selling the beats and sounds to the MC, you're selling the published arrangement of those sounds to them. This is why The Beatnuts were able to settle with J Lo for basically stealing their arrangement of the sample they used on Watch Out Now even though J Lo and The Nuts had cleared the sample from Enoch Light.
Just listen to the style of music. Learn the instruments used. Then learn the effects chain. Layer the melodies,. Learn when they played counterpoint, and when they played compliment. Learn some scales for your changes, and learn some chords. Then get your time and tempo changes on. You will be better off learning.
You have to credit and break bread. You might lose the right to publish the work or you might lose your shirt. It's as important to clear a sample as it is choosing the right sample. In my humble opinion.
You would really have to blow up off that beat that’s using that sample… and even then, really that’s on the artist and their label to clear it. I would have them clear it first, pay who they need to pay, then come back and pay you the production of the beat if that makes sense. It wouldn’t make sense for a producer to go and try to clear every sample when they aren’t even sure if the best is gonna sale and don’t know the pricing as well.
But using other people samples has it problems, always read the fine print the would say free samples but if you put it on the digital platforms you will be sued or get a DMCA. there people who upload free samples inorder to trap you in using them, they will take a bigger percentage.
But outside of Splice hasn't the big issue floating around lately been based on loop makers pulling rank about their work? Even the cats samples you using in this video are not royalty free so that mean any track you place on a certain level will have to be cleared just like a vintage sample. If you're just making tracks with no aspirations of being associated with a Major/Indie label then sample away. I personally would read the sample agreement that come with the sample packs.
Clearing a sample with a major label vs. clearing a sample from someone like myself is two VERY different things. Those major labels are not easy to work with and will want big $$$ and unrealistic publishing splits Most if not all major sample composers guarantee master clearance
If I had to share pub or clear any sample I would much rather do it with a member of the producer community. Not some label or pub company who only wants all of your money. I sample anything cause it’s what I do. If someone use’s it, most of the time it’s on their label or management to clear it unless its super indie. Thanks for your input g!! 💯
@@smuggledaudio6121 I hear you but I was speaking to the people that sample from these packs thinking there isn't specific usage terms in place just because it's not off vinyl. You would be surprised how many times I had to point this out to people who were left scratching their head afterwards. Always read the fine print because everybody shit isn't Royalty Free lol.
How much trouble you get into entirely depends on how much money a label could make off you. Time is money, so if there ain't money to be made, it usually ain't worth their time.
Yeah he did do some promo for another producer. We all gotta eat so we may as well eat together. But if you can’t see past him helping out a fellow producer and get the actual lesson being taught that’s just sad for you.
I love samples and the art of disguising samples but I use producer's kits a lot as well because I support my fellow producers. I have no fear really I just to see how other producer's create because it drives me to create even better. I love it big homie. 💯
word up!! im the same way. thanks for tuning in fam
Thanks man. This video is much needed and appreciated. I been worrying about uploading finished lps and, how I`m gonna do my youtube videos since I`m a sample based beatmaker.
Appreciate you watching fam!! 🙏🏽💯
You do have to worry about someone else using the same sample and neither one of you modifying it and release it. What I do is run Shazam on my phone to listen to the sample to see if someone has already released anything on the unprocessed sample. If they have I have to make mine not sound anything like theirs.
Yeah, this is where having a good ear comes into play. Knowing how to manipulate the sample or chopping it in diff ways. But sometimes people want to just make a dope new version of the original.
Yup, this is what I do as well. The only question I have is this: What happens when Shazam and all the other platforms have such good detection that it's almost impossible to play almost anything and it's recognizable 99.99999% of the time or it sounds to close to something that has already been released?
@@ascendedmasta Then you should learn how to make your own music. Maybe learn an Instrument and music theory to crate your own melodies
Some of the most important game out here. Especially when considering the genre we love. Appreciate it bro keep doing what you do!! Love these videos keeping me informed and inspired!
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this ws a great video THANK YOU. i gotta tell u though my guy yr tambourine was off beat (in case u might go and release)
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Great tips! Really enjoying your videos, glad I found you on here 👌
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Got stuff homie. Keep up the good work. ✌️
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These melodies are right up My street, Yes I can make My own but sometimes I like building off of a sample by someone else.
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I understand the promotion, but you were better off just telling people to use this Smuggled Keys sample pack to be creative and convert sounds with-in the Smuggled pack.That was my perception from your presentation. I though you were going to show how to take a known sample and covert it to avoid the sample police.
Well it would seem you missed the overall point of this video. I would be doing a disservice of doing work for you. I made this for you to take the info THEN apply it, not for me to do the work then you follow along. And I always want to ensure I provide value with the video as well outside of doing any promotion.
on me lol i get bruh tryna promote but damn i was watching for a while before i noticed it was just a promo smh
Literal click bait lmao
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Exactly
Tight video Fam I'm glad touch on this subject.
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@@theycallmeheat Thanks Fam
i've used cymatics free melody sample packs and have had a copyright strike by another producer, the samples were royalty free.
yep ,producers will monetize their beats, and when the next person posts it. the system doesnt know the difference. which why I talk about manipulate the samples as much as possible especially known samples or popular stuff.
i love the swing
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if I sell a beat that has a sample in it who has to deal with clearing the sample? me or the artist that has purchased my beat?
Legally you are not aloud to use anyones music as a sample if you dont have there permission, no matter how much you edit it your still practicing copyright infringement. The question really is "Will I be caught" I have sampled stuff without permission and know I'm highly unlikely to be caught so I'm not bothered about it.
this is true. But as a producer its the artists responsibility to clear the sample if they are trying to use it and release it. But I've always been able to manipulate samples unless its something super recognizable.
Thank you Heat
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Sound scan, ascap, bmi.
Can you use free drum loops cos i never do cos I'm cautious?
yep, you can use drum loops for sure.
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Whats good man? What do you mean when you say that we don't have to clear the samples in those packs? Does that mean that I can just use anything from those packs, make a beat and release it? Am I in the clear even if it becomes a huge hit? (that's always the plan right?)
meaning that you can reach out to the producer of said sample pack & actually come an agreetment. You still have to "clear" it but your not asking them if you can use it. You're more so saying "Yo, I got some money for you just need your info" lol.
@@theycallmeheat : What happens if you get some money up front but then the beat generates stupid money on the back end, though? According to US Copyright law, the originator, even if they made this kind of early agreement, is well within their rights to pursue further compensation down the line. These plenty of case law supporting this. Clearing a sample and coming to a full agreement is complicated and takes time and legal chops. This is why Major Labels have musicologists and full legal teams on staff. This has always been the case since at least the early 90's, but even more so since the Blurred Lines decision.
First off, that beat is fire. Second, the ugly truth about sampling is this: NOTHING IS SAFE. That includes ANYTHING that hasn't been cleared by the Copyright holder and ANYTHING that you get from even royalty sample packs. The algorithms that these companies are using to identify and strike down content will only get better. In the future it won't matter how well you disguise a sample with pitching, stretching, reversing, or layering a sample. These companies will find a way to identify any sample of any length. Pretty soon the DAWs we PAY to use will have this detection built into the source code and you'll pay $$$ directly from the DAW to identify, license, and release your music to streaming services. I hate to say it but US Copyright law doesn't care about this artform. In the eyes of the law and the industry that makes money off the system these laws provide, see this artform the same way they view graffiti. It's bleak, I know, but sample clearance and licensing has been and will always be for those fortunate enough to have the $$$ to do it. A couple of new developments have convinced me of this:
1. Royalty free samples are being used by artists and being released on major platforms. But if I used the same loop or sample as them for my song, my content wouldn't be able to be posted on the platform, would be removed, or I'd get a copyright strike and lose the money I made on it before and after. This is already happening and the detection is only going to get better with the advancement in AI.
2. Pharrell, who is a multi-millionaire and has the funds and power to hire the best entertainment lawyers in the world, got sued by the estate of Marvin Gaye and LOST because his melodies on Blurred Lines had the same "feel" or "sound" as Gaye's Got To Give It Up. That means that sounds, melodies, feeling, and even song structures can be the basis for having your music removed, demonetized, or worse.
The music industry is not the same as it was back in the 90's and 00's. Major labels and entities need to find new ways of making money. They can't extort artists anymore with advances, 360 deals, and studio time agreements, so they're literally using the same technology we'd use to advance the sampling artform to grab us by our ankles and shake money from our pockets. And all of it is based on the fear you described. Jack-booted soldiers from the sample police militia are going to kick down your door and arrest you for taking a piano melody from an obscure 70's jazz flute record.
Honestly, I know it sounds bleak, but this artform is going to seriously suffer from all this. We can argue that we're already seeing it's demise or decline with all these "type" beats and other fads and degradation processes. I'm all for making things "simple" and "easy" with sampling but we're dealing with a tsunami waves of sample based producers that won't do anything but loop a comp straight off a drum broker sample pack and call it a day. Nothing wrong with that, but that plus the fact that this artform is already considered a straight up crime at the first chop by the US government tells me that we're about to see a shift.
Is there any good news? Yeah, I think so. The amount of sample-based producers in the US will start to decline and new genres and weirdo Hip-Hop-esque trends will become the norm. This means that this artform will be adopted and used by heads in countries that aren't bound by the same copyright laws that people in the US are bound by. The artform won't die and will be improved upon and advanced by non-English speaking sample based producers who don't care about posting their "type" beats on beat stars or whether they'll get de-monetized by some Capitol records subsidiary for having the same "feel" or "sound" as Bob James. Instead what they'll have is, following the Black Music Tradition, an environment where no ideas are off the table and sample based production is truly a blank canvas with infinite possibilities. And like everything else, we'll flock to it because it will have the same making that Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Rock n Roll, and all the other genre's had at their start: the music and traditions of the old with all possibilities of the new at their disposal.
This won't be possible until US Copyright law is changed, and the chances of that ever happening are close to nil. Peace!
thanks for the insight my friend. appreciate you for tuning in fam.
How would you feel if someone would copy and paste something you spend hours on? Some people don't try to make something new out of it.
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thanks Geno!! 💯💯
I noticed you stopped using the Atom controller. Why?
Yeah. I missed cooking with my keys. Lol, but the layout of the Atom SQ just got boring to me. I wish it was more like mpc style then it would have stayed. But I’m back on my mpk
love your beats G.
Next video can you chop up a sample then put instruments around it🙏🏾
Already did!! I have a few videos like that. Gotta go back & peep the content. 🙏
I think nothing happens unless a major grabs it and you don't clear it. You might get a copyright strike and have to take the music down from some platforms, but you aren't likely going to get sued unless you are making some real money off of it. My advice would be, if you think a song will be placed with a major, do your due diligence and get the sample cleared ahead of time so you as the producer doesn't have to give your portion of the publishing to the original owner of the music once it's released. If a song does well and the sample is not cleared, the label will take the publishing from the producer in most cases, not the artist.
Another option, if you're selling beats to MC's, is to hand over the responsibility of clearing and licensing samples to the MC or the label. You will just have to have full disclosure with them and give them the source of every single sample (which can be kept confidential as well) that you use din the production. So you're not selling the beats and sounds to the MC, you're selling the published arrangement of those sounds to them. This is why The Beatnuts were able to settle with J Lo for basically stealing their arrangement of the sample they used on Watch Out Now even though J Lo and The Nuts had cleared the sample from Enoch Light.
Just listen to the style of music. Learn the instruments used. Then learn the effects chain. Layer the melodies,. Learn when they played counterpoint, and when they played compliment. Learn some scales for your changes, and learn some chords. Then get your time and tempo changes on. You will be better off learning.
I know everyone says sampling is Hip Hop but I say your mind is the machine.
You have to credit and break bread. You might lose the right to publish the work or you might lose your shirt. It's as important to clear a sample as it is choosing the right sample. In my humble opinion.
Dope
Appreciate that my friend!! 🙏🏽
Fire that's a mov deep beat
Word up!! Thanks for watching fam 💯
If it is intriguing to you, you won't be forgetting it easily
You would really have to blow up off that beat that’s using that sample… and even then, really that’s on the artist and their label to clear it. I would have them clear it first, pay who they need to pay, then come back and pay you the production of the beat if that makes sense. It wouldn’t make sense for a producer to go and try to clear every sample when they aren’t even sure if the best is gonna sale and don’t know the pricing as well.
if the song takes off, you will need to clear it. Sometimes you can get away with it in indie.
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They make some really dope grimey shxt!! Make some of my best hardbody joints with their packs
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I hear that!!
YO G , YOU NEED THAT EQ ACTIVE FOR THE MIC 2MUCH KICK, IN YOUR VOICE
Still working it out. Thanks for the input. 💯
But using other people samples has it problems, always read the fine print the would say free samples but if you put it on the digital platforms you will be sued or get a DMCA. there people who upload free samples inorder to trap you in using them, they will take a bigger percentage.
true, you always want to ensure the licensing info is clear to you before putting your beats out on a major platform.
i Hear Benny on that beat.
Hell yeah!! 💯 thanks for tuning in fam
Nice beat, just view sampling as a musical learning tool!
Exactly!! I think alot of other folks missed the point of the video. lol
Well, Led Zeppelin turned it into a musical dynasty so large that they can't be sued for stealing music but they can sue others for sampling theirs.
@@ascendedmasta my dude Zeppelin got the balls sued off of them. They made Willie Dixon a millionaire in the 70’s because they had to pay the man.
But outside of Splice hasn't the big issue floating around lately been based on loop makers pulling rank about their work? Even the cats samples you using in this video are not royalty free so that mean any track you place on a certain level will have to be cleared just like a vintage sample. If you're just making tracks with no aspirations of being associated with a Major/Indie label then sample away. I personally would read the sample agreement that come with the sample packs.
Clearing a sample with a major label vs. clearing a sample from someone like myself is two VERY different things. Those major labels are not easy to work with and will want big $$$ and unrealistic publishing splits
Most if not all major sample composers guarantee master clearance
If I had to share pub or clear any sample I would much rather do it with a member of the producer community. Not some label or pub company who only wants all of your money.
I sample anything cause it’s what I do. If someone use’s it, most of the time it’s on their label or management to clear it unless its super indie.
Thanks for your input g!! 💯
@@smuggledaudio6121 I hear you but I was speaking to the people that sample from these packs thinking there isn't specific usage terms in place just because it's not off vinyl. You would be surprised how many times I had to point this out to people who were left scratching their head afterwards. Always read the fine print because everybody shit isn't Royalty Free lol.
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pretty much just an ad for smuggled keys… 😒
Yeah, I’m promoting the smuggled keys. It’s unfortunate you missed the value to hate on the context of the video 🤷🏾♂️
Nah bruh you need to do an update video Google AI just figured out how to detect samples that are chopped up or time stretched. It's over bruh!
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Use Melodyne. Samples are your starting point.
what do you use Melodyne for? I've always known it to be a pitch correction.
bro
How much trouble you get into entirely depends on how much money a label could make off you. Time is money, so if there ain't money to be made, it usually ain't worth their time.
Somebody gets it!! 💯 Majority of the time it will take hella money to sue you for nothing vs just getting your song removed.
Horrible
Love you too bro!!
Yeah he did do some promo for another producer. We all gotta eat so we may as well eat together. But if you can’t see past him helping out a fellow producer and get the actual lesson being taught that’s just sad for you.
Thanks for this fam!! I learned I can’t prove something to everyone. So I dod what I do & let the content flow. Lol 💯💯