Beats sound slow on play back

J Hill wrote:

NearTao wrote:Yeah that's one way to chop. Still though, you can use this as a starting place, but you'll really want to learn to do this by ear as well. As with anything else, practice will make perfect and you'll find plenty of loops that you can't split on a 4 to the floor or other standard easily divisible time frame.

Ight NearTao, forgive the complete n00b'ness of the question but I gotta ask
"4 to the floor" means 4 bars to what?

A 4 to the floor beat is a bar of 4/4 time where the kick drum is hitting at the start of every downbeat.

It's the techno boomph-boomph-boomph-boomph, if the above explanation is wrong or confusing.

4 on the floor = 4 bar or multiples of 4 (8,12,16,etc) lengthed loops split "on the one".

That works fine for most traditionally arranged songs and breaks. But sometimes if you set your chops by ear according to the sound instead of the measure you'll get wilder off beat stuff.

Both styles work, just 2 tools in a toolbox. It depends what your working with and what your trying to make.

So... don't be afraid to use math or your ear... both are perfectly fine but will give different results/feel to your productions

preciate all the help fellas