Intro to Sampling Please

Hi guys. Just wanted to pick your brains if that's ok.

Was just looking for a small into to sampling. Like what do you do to go about it? What are the basics. Would i be right in thinking that at it's heart it's just listening to loads of records & finding drums & little sound effects to add to say for example a small sample of a record that i would loop perhaps. I'm quite into my hip-hop & that's the sort of thing i'd be doing if i carry on.

Your help would be appreciated, thanks

do exactly what u said and you'll be in there like swimwear!!!

and after you done.. post them up for constructive critism

and that will help you improve. a lot. like a lot man.

article in sound on sound on sampling. this is part one of seven

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug05/articles/lostscience.htm

start out looping and then once you master that, after a while chopping will come naturally.

Just look at it as creating music and get to the science later.

Try to find out what samples were used in your favourite hip hop tunes, listen back and figure out what was done in order to achieve the end result. Check out a variety of producers and how different their styles are - like DJ Premier, 9th Wonder, or Buckshot are relatively different in what they do with samples to get the beat they're looking to create.

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It's kind of a cheesy route to take, but on the slim offchance you don't have it already, get a copy of Endtroducing and then download one of the sample source packs for it. The album was created purely from samples and the source packs contain the original songs that Shadow sampled. So you can study a single track from the album alongside all the original songs it's built from, break it down and see how it was built up, and that should give you some insight into what can be achieved (and the best of luck).

The first time I got into sampling with my old Amiga, I grabbed the bassline intro to Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes and ran it alongside the Funky Drummer break. A terrible idea! But back then it was flat-out AWESOME to hear the two samples fitting together and then start playing around with the start points, rearranging the notes, reversing snippets and all the other cool crap you can get up to with a sampler, the meta-instrument of kings.

So yeah, if nothing else just grab a couple of snippets you like and wail on 'em until they play nice. And then you'll be hooked.