Cunninlynguists Break

saltmcgault wrote:I love drum breaks and I think I use them too much. I want to find samples and breaks that haven't been used before. I hate **** with a sample and then finding out wiz khalifa or logic have already used it on an album. It's a total boner kill for me.

Of course. I know that feeling. 90% of the time I dig for shit I know nobody's gonna have used before, but I feel like I should still have knowledge of well known soul and funk artists so if I buy a Quincy Jones or something album I already know it's been sampled several times before by pros and when I try and see how I can flip it I can't put the same energy in.

As for drums, I almost never sample entire patterns because I just can't figure out how to get them to loop right . I sample individual hits from "drum crazy breaks" for example and layer them with hits from other records to make them unrecognizable.

I think that's also why I can't figure out if the break Kno used is the one I think it is. Because if it is.... I can't believe how he freaked it..

They didn't really do much, loop the break and use note repeat on parts of the drum. Same programming as trip hop, drum and bass, etc.

Try to recreate what they did with the drums, using a different break but the same technique.
Break Link: http://contemporaryhiphop.com/break/1.wav

CharlesRandolph wrote:They didn't really do much, loop the break and use note repeat on parts of the drum. Same programming as trip hop, drum and bass, etc.

Try to recreate what they did with the drums, using a different break but the same technique.
Break Link: http://contemporaryhiphop.com/break/1.wav

Maybe they didn't, but like I said, I have almost no experience with programming breaks so I can't comprehend how Kno made it sound that way at all! And I really don't think it's just the note repeat...! I love that song so much.

Scrawny wrote:Maybe they didn't, but like I said, I have almost no experience with programming breaks so I can't comprehend how Kno made it sound that way at all! And I really don't think it's just the note repeat...! I love that song so much.

That's all it is, a Drum loop with note repeats kicks and snare fills. Sounds like he used a decay and filter on the snare roll.

CharlesRandolph wrote:

Scrawny wrote:Maybe they didn't, but like I said, I have almost no experience with programming breaks so I can't comprehend how Kno made it sound that way at all! And I really don't think it's just the note repeat...! I love that song so much.

That's all it is, a Drum loop with note repeats kicks and snare fills. Sounds like he used a decay and filter on the snare roll.