How do you choose what to sample?

Hi everyone, I have a few basic questions about your workflow. This is obviously subjective but I'm looking for general ideas.

1. How do you choose what to sample?
2. Once you have decided on a tune, what sounds within that sample do you usually try and chop? (i.e. certain types of hits?)

I tend to find myself just sticking to intros that dont contain drums and basic looping and want to branch out.

Any help or ideas will be much appreciated. Thanks

Anything that sounds good to you [as i am righting this i am chopping up some 70's Italian jazz]
Some people like jazz, such as myself, some like 60's & 70's soul, Tv shows, etc. Whatever you got a ear for, there are rules i guess, like sampling for hip-hop, etc.

Ya man , the hardest part about making samble based beats vs samples to highlight synthic beats is finding the track.
if I find a song I like, I drop it into Logic. tempo map it. then copy to 4 tracks. each trach i break it down.
track 1...4bar sections
track 2.. 5bar sections
track 3.. 6bar sections
track 4.. 7bar sections
Doing this keep me from getting lost.

solo each section and see if I find something to work with. If I do , i label it,eq , pitch , and put it on the desktop in a folder to be dropped in the mpc. I like to find 4 bar sections thou, since most melodys are 8bars , with a 4bar chop you can scale it and swing it back to the start with a more natural harmonic swing.

Some guys just find what they want , record it into the mpc , chop and play. both work equally well and have pros-cons.

I listen to records. If anything particular in a song catches my attention, i'll sample it (a really good sample will usually be quite obvious to the ear and "jump" right at you and screaming "sample me!!!").

I don't use auto chop and such things. I simply sample every sound i want for each pad on the mpc. So basically i'll sample 16-20 chops from a record (manually), then assign the ones i like best to pad 1-16.

Don't be afraid to sample other parts than song intros, drum breaks, etc. If there's light drums in the sample, it'll work aswell... think about it, people layer kicks and snares, so if there's a kick and snare in your sample and you add your own drums on top of it... it's nothing different than layering drums.

real talk above from jibber never limit yourself to intros or just loops i mean sample that loop then sample more an add lil bits an pieces on that loop or whatever to make it good find one cool sample then get another record an sample that to a good beat is what you make it and its like a fun puzzle you can go all sampling from vinyl but then you can add on to it like add synths etc from your computer possiblitys are endless . but really when you hear that dope sample from some source you will just know to sample it ul just know its like some jedi s**t lol

sample anything that catches your ear. btw almost every one of my beats has samples w drums already on them

it will jump out at you when you hear a good sample.

i usually like at least 4 bars, sometimes you get lucky and get an 8 bar or 12 bar sample even, then you have all kinds of chopping opportunities.

then ill chop each hit into 8th notes or 16th notes and re arrange away!

Cheers for the replies guys, I shall get cracking

i " LISTEN TO LISTEN ".............. not just listen ( another wards, i focus with my ears )

sample anything that sounds good to you. or sample everything and see what you can do with it. The more you sample and make patterns and layer with drums the easier it will be over time to hear a sample and snipe it (hear it, know what you want, sample the precise part and freak it)