Sampling is HARD (It's Literally Rocket Science)
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00:00 Earl Sweatshirt - 2010 prod. Black Noi$e
01:25 J Dilla - Airworks (Donuts)
03:25 J Dilla - Free your mind
04:34 Flamingosis - Football Head
07:22 9th Wonder - Go All Out
09:05 9th Wonder - World Turns
10:29 Nujabes - Sea of Clouds
13:33 Madlib - Mind Touch
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Respect for this vid bro, I laugh when people talk down on sampling cuz they don’t have a proper understanding of how difficult it can get. These new producers never even touched a sampler and they think they know what sampling is smh
It can be the weirdest puzzle without a set end goal or reference point. But when it all works out, some magic can happen
@@nobodyxxxxxxxx it’s not about it sounding close to the original. It’s about the chopping, stretching, tuning, filtering of a record and piecing together an audio collage out of multiple samples than turning it into a complete beat. It’s art anyway you look at it dont matter if you can sort of hear the original it’s different and unique in its own way and it makes your head bop.
They say “it’s lazy stealing”
I say it’s the embodiment of creativity. Using whatever you have to express what you feel. Bringing new life to what people threw in their trash or gave away to people.
@@Pericles777 preach!
@@HennyXPJAC exactly. Sampling can be tough especially when it comes just trying to find them. I'm very picky when it comes to sampling
To be fair, those J. Dilla flips are like Beethoven/Mozart levels of creative genius-ness
imagine flipping those samples straight from vinyl... its like witchcraft to me
Imagine what he could've made if he still was alive.
Nah
@@showbread9366 yes
The mere fact i didnt even know the samples from airworks were chops makes it more impressive. Its very difficult to make chops that follow the rules of music theory and chord progression, sounds that rise and then go low. Most producers just chop random parts hoping it will sound good but j dilla was a true sample connoiseur. Taking several chops from different parts of the song and making them flow together seamlessly is very difficult and demonstrates dillas mastery on the craft
Sampling is just an artform that can be as complicated or simplistic as can be by the producer.
Sampling itself is a is a art form. Just arranging the chops before you even craft the beat. Respect the samples. Chop loops forever!!! Fresh Two Deaf Podcast👊🏾
Chopping is tricky. Some dudes just chop up random stuff in hopes it will sound good when playing it back. This is what seperates the boys from the men
@@jessemartinez243 lol
Honestly as long as you're making good music, it shouldn't matter how long it takes or if it was difficult, or if you sampled.
That's the main thing
true.
the only ones that care are the snobs lmao
I must have missed something. Since when is accomplishing something with a high level of difficulty not worthy of praise. Why do it if no one cares to notice.
I hope you never ever say that to a real engineer they will kick you out because that is all a part of an producers craft
right on
Sampling is such a beautiful way of creating music, I adore the magic that comes with knowing how to put the pieces of a puzzle together, it's literally alchemy and therefore it is some sort of magic which makes us feel a very good emotion when the puzzle comes together.
That + it is an incredible way of discovering new music, which otherwise would get lost with the passage of time
Yo this is beautiful
It’s kind of like sorting energy and emotions to something recognizable and memorable you can‘t actually see
As someone who has been making beats for 10 years I can vouch and say sampling is one of the hardest artforms to master. The time, the patients, and the keen sense of hearing patterns all come into play when making a beat. Salute to this video.
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Yes but no. Sampling is more like sewing a quilt or building a model. The pieces are there. It's not the same as spinning the cotton yourself to make a thread and then sewing or like carving a figure from a block of stone.
So sampling is like production and assembly where as music writing and composing is manufacturing and fabricating.
Thank you for all your work obn.
@@YOUCANTDOTHATONTELEVISION There is still production both ways. You are still borrowing sounds to turn into a final product.
With making music from scratch, you are using raw elements like Limestone & Clay or Wood & Steel, and producing a new object with those things.
With sampling, you are using pre made materials like Cement, Electrical Piping, & Wooden Spines to build something new like a House.
Never expected my favorite beatmaker to be in the comments here. Love ya stuff man
But when you got that melody in your head playing and your just trying to piece the chops together to sound exactly how they’re playing in your head…that’s one of the beautiful struggles of sampling
Building a puzzle without a reference point. Building and creating the puzzle at the same time. That can get tricky faaast
Describe it perfectly
If you're trying to create a specific melody out of a sample you might as well just learn some music theory and how to do it from scratch yourself. I love sampling, but it's really not the best way to make a melody that's in your head.
Sampling is really cool fun way to make music, it’s not harder or easier than anything. It’s mostly about taste tho.
It's honestly weird, as someone who samples all the time, it doesn't feel like rocket science. I can hear a song, hear a specific part, and hear in my head already exactly how I might want to chop it, flip it, etc. Like honestly the most difficult part is spending the time to sit down and listen to some music to find a great sample. Now can I sample like Dilla, fuck no, that dude was a fucking wizard, but it always feels easy, like I could do it in my sleep, it's not like math I've never needed to study or practice, it just kinda happens and you sort of feel it rather than force it.
Right it really depends on the extent of a person's ear along with creativity and imagination cause I don't even sample I make tracks from scratch but even when I hear a lot of songs no matter the genre I already can vividly imagine exactly how I would use it in a sampling way along with other things like how the drums would sound etc.
I mean you must have a great ear. It took me studying tracks I loved and seeing how the stuff was made for my ear to develop. But honestly you can just listen actively to music and that will help you develop your ear
Where can i find some of your work ?
I think one of the keys to Dilla style sampling is chopping as much as possible like down to the 16ths then banging on dem pads or keys till you find a grove…music is math so with more pieces to work with you multiply the possibilities infinitely
That's cool but how much work are you putting into each beat? How intricate are your chops and arrangements , are you using multiple layers of musical samples and drums , etc... Just curious. Not all sampled beats have the same process and not all beatmakers put in the same amount of work as others
Sampling music is not hard, at least it doesn't feel like it when you're having fun and determined. The hardest part of sampling imo is finding original songs to draw from and developing your taste to a level where you ACTUALLY love the music that your sampling. I've never seen a great sample-based producer who doesn't genuinely love the music that they're sampling. The love for music has to be there. I have spent years sampling music and have recently stepped away from the craft, but I hold these producers in extremely high esteem, honourable mentions to Kaytranada, Daft Punk and Quickly Quickly (the most talented sampler I've seen in my lifetime).
The point is: a lot of these chops look like a well-thought-out, methodical process, but I can assure you they are not as scientific as this video makes them look. It's like watching a jazz musician improvise and breaking down their solo note for note saying 'WOW, how did they think to play that note next?!'. See, that doesn't make sense. The musician is just feeling the music and going with the flow, which is how a lot of sample-based producers feel. Seeking, looking for gold, chopping, warping, screwing, reversing...it's all a flow state and should not be considered an exact, tough science. I can say this from years of experience of chopping hundreds upon hundreds of samples...JUST HAVE FUN and please don't think that because this video says it's hard that it means you can't do it. Sampling is not as scary as it looks, just develop your basics in your chosen daw or on hardware and sample the music you love and develop your taste. Sampling is not hard when you're sampling the music you love. Enjoy the process.
This gives me hope that maybe one day I’ll be able to do it
@@thatsit5049 i'm glad to hear that! Just go have fun!:) there's a channel called Andre Navarro II on youtube which is arguably one of the best channels for sampling music. RUclips has the best crates by far, followed by actual crates. Get digging and have fun:)
Yeah you hit the nail on the head. I’m not a pro by any means but I’ve never seen it as difficult when I’m enjoying it. And the stuff I make isn’t trash/ basic either.
The funny thing as you put things together, the sound takes on a life of its own, you make a mistake or something strange happens and it takes your project in a different direction than you anticipated. I couldnt tell you how i did it, but it sounds awesome.
@@moorbilt exactly bro! This is what I'm talking about. This video and a few others make it seem like a well-thought-out, intentional process but from people who have actually spent a lot of time sampling, we know that a lot of time it's nothing like that. Not knocking the video btw, it's great, the title is just clickbait
Some samplers are so good that they make it sound easy
In some parts you could literally feel how the artists were experimenting with the samples, its like getting a glimpse of an artist's vision
Amazing visualisation, love this videoo
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Its 2022 how do people think sampling/producing is still somehow less respectable than "creating" the music/chords/notes yourself.
Trust me playing a I IV V power chord progression is MUCH easier to learn how to do than to pick up a sampler and start chopping records into jams.
Both have their lanes, both are to be respected. Cool video.
You got it
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Yup, like any craft, there are levels. You can play some tired shit on a bunch of instruments, or do some tired ass chops and drop shitty drums on it.... or someone can master either or both. Sampling definitely shouldn't be discredited. It's a totally different method but to do it well takes understanding harmony, melody, rhythm, and dynamics in a similar manner. It's more of playing the role of an arranger than a composer, in a certain sense, but not insignificant by any means.
A lot of it seems to be hate against hip-hop from old people who don't respect the genre as a whole and see sampling as "stealing". Of course, there are plenty of racist reasons along with that.
The sad thing is that a lot of these boomers don't realize the blues, country, rock and jazz they love so much was "stolen" in similar ways where harmonies and rhythms were taken straight from songs already written. Even classical music did the same thing.
The sadder part is that a lot of the music boomers romanticize and worship while trashing hip-hop - it originally came from the grandparents of the ethnic minorities who comprise most of hip-hop culture. Metal, punk, country and rock came from jazz and blues. Blues came from chain gang music and African spirituals during slavery. The banjo was based directly off an African instrument. Jazz was led by children of former African slaves, and improvisation - hence, guitar solos - were then popularized.
The culture of marginalized people will always be exploited. Until people are no longer marginalized, it will continue to happen. Culture vultures will keep diluting hip-hop. It's been happening for centuries.
@@somekid7 that's a beautiful history lesson right here. Great comment. Rock was so popular, for so long, and it is all on the back of black culture that never saw the same success. It is a tragedy.
Don’t ever say playing a chord progression is easier than sampling. As a producer who samples and plays instruments. Playing instruments is much harder. Sampling is also hard, but it’s levels. Playing chord progressions on a keyboard or guitar, the right way can take years and many hours of practice. Samplers do deserve a level of respect, but not at the expense of downplaying a musician as if sampling is harder than being an actual musician. Samplers need to bow down to the musician because you wouldn’t have anything to sample without them. If it were easier to play than sample, then you would play it over. I had to do that when the labels couldn’t clear the samples. Try mastering an actual instrument and you will have a greater respect for the musician.
Sampling is tough to do, very challenging, and thats what i love about it, because its HARD
Beat Konducta series from Madlib was when I knew he was the KING of sampling.
sampling is as much of an art-form as collage. people will always talk down on what they don’t understand
Most of the haters have no idea about the music making process... Just letting their ignorance speak.
These breakdowns really be having you thinking its all easy until you open your computer and try to do it yourself lmao
10000%
The foundation of Sampling is fairly simple but as anything, it takes a lifetime to become a master.
That said the tools alot of 90s producers used back then was harder, as most chopped with just their ears.
Chopping with a 3000 takes more skill than using a DAW as a modern DAW can do alot of the hardwork for you.
I remember buying a 2000 in 97 and a producer came over amazed at how clean my chops were. The 2000 had waveform editing which made it alot easier.
With Ableton it is even easier with Warping and stuff but a good sample artist needs a good ear, timing, taste, and creativity.
It is basically just like learning any instrument.
this 100000%
Anything new is challenging. In music everything feels like learning a new language.
And like you said, it can be as simple and as deep as we want to take it. That is why I did both videos. "Sampling is Easy", and "Sampling is Hard"
As a young vet who fell in love
with sampling many moons ago...
I appreciate this vid, brethren.
Let 'em know...there's layers & levels 2 it.
🙏🏼✊🏼💯
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I've been sampling for 5 years and I'm still learning more about sampling it's not a destination it's a learning journey experience
Facts💯
@@allenlevelle Yes sir 💯
Music snobs in these comments are hilarious. Imagine being so proud to have such a narrow view of what creativity and art are. Collage, often associated with Dadaism, has only been a valid artistic technique for like a century now, and sampling, the musical manifestation of this technique, goes all the way back to musique concrete in the 1950s, but whatever. John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry all had ideas that formed the foundation of sampling today, and those guys are in music theory textbooks for being innovative. Or take a track like Tomorrow Never Knows, which is nothing but samples really. Yet, a majority group of African Americans independently hit upon the same ideas during the creation of hip hop music, but make it a little too fun to listen to, and it's automatically "not art" or "not real music". That's sus as fuck honestly.
(For the record: I'm both a classical and jazz musician, went to college on a performance scholarship, have an advanced knowledge of music theory, and most importantly, I love working with samples, making beats, and doing sound collage.)
Nah, we're people who actually do sampling work and know it's not hard, and all about developing a sense of aesthetics.
@@onlinescammer8291 It's like anything else when making music. It can be as hard as you make it, but the technical challenge of how you make the music isn't what makes it good anyway. It's like you said, it's about aesthetic. And of course, it's all subjective too. I will say the stuff people did with older, more limited technology, and especially music that was created through the physical editing of tape reels, like Miles Davis's On The Corner, was incredibly difficult and required plenty of creativity to utilize the available technology to it's fullest.
@@onlinescammer8291 Daft Punk face to face, if you tell me that is easy you lying to yourself
@@onlinescammer8291 MAKE GOOD BEATS THEN
Lol
This is why I LOVE southern rap producers like DJ Paul ,Mannie fresh, and DJ screw just to name a few.
sampling isn't stealing - it's like having to make your instruments
the way j dilla did those chops straight from vinyl is insane
Mind blowing
Yea, but I think 9th is still better.
You put this together masterfully.
J Ds Airworks is a work of art
Even though a lot of ppl in the comments seem annoying I just wanna say thank you for content like this 🙏🏾 love hip hop and love sampling
rest in beats my boy nujabes!
It's all about that flow state, let go of your ego and just follow your heart.
Basically Sampling is a musical puzzle putting sounds together to make a whole piece
One piece
Its a very intuitive thing. Once you've practiced enough at a certain point you've either got it or you don't. Ill never forget the day I accomplished an entire sampled song free of tempo grid, all feel, thought I was J-Dilla for 30 seconds haha moments. Sampling is such a beautiful art, massive respect to the masters
The work you put into showing how they did it is impressive alone. Salute!
Just sharing my studies! Thanks for the appreciation !
yeah sampling is really hard there’s like a billion ways to interpret a sample and then thinking about chops is crazy 🤯
I have my own strategies and tastes to make the process at least somewhat easier
I rly hate it when purists talk down on sampling and say it ain’t real music and u should always create ur own melodies. In a way sampling is way more creative and challenges u to solve problems. At the end of the day music is music and all this arguin is pointless as the listeners don’t care how a song was made they just care if it sound good or not 😭
also I know this has been said so many times but J Dilla was a musical genius airworks and donut of the heart are some examples his sample selections was just so amazing which is one of the reasons I push myself to listen to all types of music no matter how out there
We are all just using tools we didn't invent to make music! Most of, if not all chord progressions have been used already.
At the end of the day all that matters is if you make dope shit
@@Narokx exactly 👍🏼
Thank you for this video! Most people don’t understand producing/ sampling literally is a science. It’s literally creating a new sound or taking another sound then reinventing it is not a easy job
when you do something like you mentioned, it feels like magic!
Such fine art, that I don’t think people appreciate enough. Loved this video
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You really took a lot of time to break this all down. Indeed sampling is an art. To be able to break a record down to its form that it’s unrecognizable is key…at least for me. There’s something nostalgic about incorporating classics into music that’s is incredible. Thank you
This is fascinating! Really appreciate the visual way that you laid out what they're doing. That helps alot. Loved watching this!
Consistency, practice, and an overall passion for sound and creating something new
The amount of respect you have earned is crazy, u put so much time into this and i respect that so much, thank you for this.
Thanks for the recognition! I being trying my best, and will keep at it all 2022, but I for sure gotta start switching the content up in 2023!
@@Narokx What's been the hardest sample for you to recreate?
@@thatkidfromthatshow J Dilla Airworks... and it is not even close. When I saw the amount of work I had to do, it felt like looking at a mountain
Dilla and samples changed my life.
Ppl don't understand the art of sampling its not just taking a loop from something and that's it. When u chop it reverse it bring up or down semi tones u end up creating something new
Yeah take one loop and throw some trap drums on it and people think its a masterpiece lol
the art of sampling 😍 dope video as always, thank you bro :)
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Cardinal rule of art: that it's hard/expensive doesn't necessarily make it good/better.
It took me forever to internalize this
Finally just finished this while high. It was a trip
yeah non musicians talk about sampling like it's simple
This video was great. Really well made! Reminds me that sampling may be hard, but it's not impossible. Dilla didn't start as a pro. Us producers just gotta keep practicing until we get there. Practice, listen, create. It's OUR art.
Great mentality!
GREAT WORK MY MAN. PLEASE CONTINUE.
I love the way the producers take a sample and chop it up.... Sounds great 👍👍
so dope! Keep them coming!!
y thank you!
This video hard bro💯🔥appreciate you for this
2010 of Earl is my all time favorite song. It’s a masterpiece
Thanks 4 this🎉💯 different level of respect for these producers.
I tried sampling for the first time the other day. I found a sound I liked and I chopped it up threw it in a blender. It’s hard, but it’s very satisfying hearing the end result.
This is the coolest video I’ve ever seen 🤙🏽
bigg respect
Thank you pleasure to watch!
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Just saw LockedInEden's 'My Top 100 Samples of the Decade' YT video and I'm not looking back. btw Narokx is *hard* .
So much effort put in to this, amazing work
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It’s not hard to chop sample, set sample to legato mode, and trigger samples until they sound cool. It is much harder to mix 7th chords and synthesizers “around” chopped samples.
Yeah to chop samples and then play around it is hard I think maybe it’s easier in a live setting and you have experience with performance
Yeah, ny favorite modern artists use sampling as the a layer which they will build from.
If you can compose and build on top of a sample you can be considered a pretty good producer!
I use ASR-10 and basically you can make the most intense, ridiculous sample based beats. Then it’s also a synthesizer/keyboard . So yes, you can become a full producer on that machine. If you have just a beat machine type sampler you will be limited.
@@jkconnor4592 I use FL Studio to sample. If I’m being honest I would love to kno what it’s like to work with a sampler.
I think it's more hard to use more than 3 samples and make them sound good together.
one the best videos ive seen in a long time fr
Got a whole channel filled with this stuff :)
This makes me wanna showcase my beats even more now lol. I used to be told that sampling sucks but when I learned some of the instruments it was not as fun and didn’t hear or feel shit. But when the right sampling come on you just know what to do. Good luck to all upcoming beat makers and keep up the videos. Subbed
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Much love and respect
the first sample that nujabees used for sea of cloud was also used by Isaiah Rashad and Mac Miller
Rip Mac man...
When I finally learned how to chop dem samples up right I swear to you it felt like fireworks 😂💯💯. It took a good 2/3 years for me to finally get it right and have everything come together smoothly.
NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP GOING! ✊🏿🔥
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crazy talent bro you a true beast big ups
Imagine how it was for us in the 90s I used an asr 10 for years still do. Its a lot easier with software though. It just takes time and practice and plenty of patience
respect!
Sampling is great! Wonderful art form for sure. To understand it is art itself. I’m blessed to be able to sample and play a few instruments and I must say the enjoyment I feel when I’m playing my instrument defeats sampling everyday of the week. Without interpretation, there’s nothing to chop. Sampling doesn’t exist without musicians. On the other hand I love what sampling offers to music in the modern world. Much respect to both 🙏🏾
This is really dope this is probably how many producers 'see' beats.. i love choppin samples and flip em into an oldschool hip hop beat
Yes sirr!!
The hardest part of sampling though has to be when you got a sound tucked behind some drums that you wanna isolate, sometimes it's easy. But sometimes it's hell getting the cymbals out the mix and making it sound as good as it originally did or good enough to still wanna use. If I hear a sample that lights a fire in me w no drums I'm like OHHH IT'S ON cause then there's nothing in the way. I respect the craft. My favorite sampling though is when rather than build off the original melody you chop it to make a new one and build off that. 💯
It feels like a whole mess, but when it all works out and fits together it feels like magic just happened
@@Narokx Exactly🙌💯
This is insane!!!
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love flipping samples
It’s a true art form
Glad you’ve made this
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Dope ass video, dude. Amazing to analyze these techniques.
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keep up the hard work ...... 😀
This is art man
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thank gods for these types of videos
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Great vid🔥🔥
It truly is scientific math and art all rolled into one. Your dealing with frequencies, back in the day you had to do math to figure out the bpms and manual slice and dice samples. The new generation really has it easy. Everything is a preset algorithm or processor. So for someone saying they made 10 beats a day I can see how. 😂.
awesome video bro
Those dilla chopss yesw its hard but not impossible to achieve those technic
it's cool you added flamingosis!
That was one of the favorite breakdowns I've ever done.
It didn't do well views wise, but I learned a lot, edited the best I could.
I am glad it is good enough that I can use it as a reference for/in future videos!!
These vids are kind of meditative
Great video!!
People say sampling isnt real producing and that's bull. It takes real creativity to take something and change it into something else. Tho, sampling is 100 times easier than making a beat without a sample. Even using kicks, snares etc on your drum machines or whatever you make beats off is sampling. Its only not sampling when you make the sound your self. Like clapping in front of a mic to get a clap sound or playing drums live. Shout outs to all the producers weather you sample or not. No one is better than no one.
This is the way
AMAZING VIDEO
fire
Good editing, fucking amazing sample knowledge of exact points of the song too and how it was manipulated like
RUclips decides that it likes my channel every couple of months, and starts recommending a lot. But then it stops for awhile...
Not complaining tho, I double in size every couple months. The hard work is slowly paying off :)
J Dilla on a different level with it like sheeesh🔥
It most definitely is a science and art in itself
Yo great video BRO!
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It’s really really simple if you have the DDJ1000, Samples from anywhere just clear them, don’t get in trouble G’s
i just stumbled on this video and landed on a goldmine..
idk if this is part of a series but this is a fire concept and the presentation is A1 bro keep it going!
as a producer i never really paid mind to the idea of sampling being so complex from the perspective of a casual fan..
my ears are always in producer mode so anytime a song plays on the radio its hard for me NOT to focus on the details like the vocal mixing or why they added a subtle counter melody that keeps throwing me off lol a slight downside to having a good ear
Appreciate you so much.
There is so much depth to music, truly endless!
fantastic video
I've never had a hard time with sampling but that may be because I either don't know what the fuck I'm doing, am really enjoying myself, or I could care less what other people think of my happiness... Music and rhythm is how I groove in the world and I'm happy where I'm heading.
Bro, that editing must be a pain in the ass. All my respects
It is... I've gotten better, but I am still just a music producer trying his hardest on Premiere lol
@@Narokx keep on going, u are a beast!
i mean for starters jdilla is a fuckin beast you don't have to go that crazy just realize that you truly enjoy the music and just because that person has a better beat than you don't mean shit you just have to be in the moment and sometimes even take a brake you will go nuts and make yourself not want to do what you love don't forget that
Balance !!!
Sampling is my baby
9th wonder is the goat, nobody can sample like him not even Dilla.
Haha yeah of course.. 9th's beats is your favorite taste (your taste nothing to say against it)...on the technical aspect of making the beats 9th is not even close to dilla 9th is a pretty average producer got nice samples and a good ear for samples yes.. but the beats are pretty mediocre..(Drum Patterns.. just samples soul music.. same chops etc.)Dilla was on a Whole another Level my Friend believe me...
It is all about your taste and opinion, but you can say you enjoy something without putting its peers down
Why sacrifice logic with Ad Hominems when you didn't have an argument in the first place.
@@therawmagnetic9635Also I disagreed with you on everything that was iterated out of your mouth. 9th's production is far from mediocrity again music is subjective to the listener. Nobody is objectively the best.
No words just subbing
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