Seriously? 4?
I sure know how to clear a room. I'm usually a nice fella, but I have to talk some trash for a minute and educate.
Do yall really need everything made easy for you? I mean, it's not hard to turn a soul, jazz, or funk sample into a decent-sounding hip hop song. Those 3 genres are just a small piece of the totality of recorded music and in this day and age they are all-too-well raped and borrowed. This song wasn't one of my all time favorites either, but music you like shouldn't always be what inspires you to make music, and if it is, then most likely you are just aspiring to be what you like, which isn't innovative at all. In the primal beginnings of music, it was always inspired by life and nature, whether it was thumping on a hollow tree log to make percussion sounds or ballad songs about the endeavors of man, inspiration was generally drawn from non-musical situations. The greatest musicians could make grand songs with a very limited arsenal of sound. Today we have the ability, through technology, to create almost any sound we can fathom.
Regardless of the vocals, anyone could have chopped the guitar and turned it into a number of different sounds, transposed keys, time stretched it, put effect to change it to an electric guitar, or even morphed it into something completely different than the original sound. Not to mention, it being an open battle, you could have used as many extra samples/instruments as you liked.
I would have rather seen folks use the sample in the most minimal way, rather than as ODK put it, pussed out on a challenge. Because no one ever accomplished anything by saying, "This isn't my ish."
Cheers to the fab four! No hard feelings at all, I actually got a big laugh at this turn out. But if you bitching about not liking any given sample, then you are really bitching about your inability to work with the sample. And if you found the sample too annoying to work with, then you forgot the whole idea was to turn it into something that you like. Haha! A real hungry man will eat anything!
i didn't feel the sample too much either, but there are definitely hundreds of ways to use it as it's full of clean guitar chops...
difficult samples are dope. just find one with more then two riffs or three notes. and great job on your track. vox samples where perfect. exactly what i was going for a western. but the train was like the candy sprinkles my dude. great serve.
