Layering and Matching Samples - Hip Hop Beats tutorial
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I forgot about Melodyne, last time I worked with it it wasn't so good but it seems that you can use it nowadays. Still if you want to know how I do it, it's like I mentioned in the video. Thanks to everyone in the comment section that mentioned melodyne.
Have you tried Sononym as a sample manager? It's pretty dope.
We dont use computer plug ins on this side lol
@@ads718beats9 Yeah it can detect pitch like Melodyne too. I've been doing it for years by ear and, feel. I noticed the program would group sounds by similarity I would gravitate to. It's got some AI algorithm.
Same
I always stick to 1 song for sampling. And like you said Layer my own melodies on top.
"I never know what key I'm in. I don't care." I love this. I can totally find the key of a song and probably you can too. But who cares? Your ears are all that matter.
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To me sampling is the musical version of doing a collage. You choose, cut and paste the pieces of paper that serve the purpose of composing your picture. The whole point of doing collage is making use of that "unique" piece of paper that fits perfectly into your collage. So, why would you change or modify such piece of paper? Sampling works just the same to me.
Dope metaphor or simile. Well put.
I totally dig what collage and sampling means to you, and at the end of the day that's what is important!
Something to consider (just as a side note) might be: what I find inspirational about hip-hop and sampling is that it comes from a place of no rules, and in order to sample/collage, you are literally tearing up art that came before and using your own taste to create a new context.
You could say, instead of "Why would you modify the paper?" to "Why wouldn't you?" - we are in fact already modifying the paper by cutting it up in the first place, so why stop there?
Hip-hop comes from breaking all the rules to create art out of diversity, so when we create it, there should be no rules we can't break in order to satisfy our own creativity.
Please do note that, for me, collage is about using my eye to create something new, and not about finding the unique piece of paper that fits, so I'm possibly coming from a different angle to you, and as above, you must go for what makes sense to you above all else!
“Some samples don’t work, move on” well put my man.
I would definitely be interested in watching a full video of you going through samples. I'm sure I could learn a lot from it
That‘s exactly what’s missing on TH-cam! Everyone pretends like they do Beats in 5 minutes. Show people the reality of beatmaking, that’s where we really learn, the Rest is just showing of.
@user that would be a dope! And a great learning experience.
Ok man i gotta put some words here. Usually i dig your videos cause you dropping so much knowledge, but this video here has a reversed effect.
You r saying you dont know in which key you are and now everybody is like, i dont know that also, so fuck it.
Its like they have a excuse now, to not learn music theory.
I mean just look at the comment section...everybody is like, all i need is my ears and hard work. Guys, if you are willing to put hard work in music, then put work into learning music theory. Whats the problem? Why not learn something? You just have to understand it once and it will serve you your whole life. And besides...IT IS NOT COMPLICATED!! You can learn it, like every other thing. And you will not lose your ears nor your workethic by learning music theory, BUT, you could proove to your workethic to yourself by learning it.
Check Melodyne. If you have clean chords like piano, rhodes, strings, brass etc. it can split them to individual notes which can be then altered changing the chord as you wish. of course this means involving a third party software in the creation process which is sometimes mood killer but it can be done. Really great vid as always! Peace!
>I don't know what key I'm in
Speaking for myself it's sometimes discouraging to think that I can't get too far as a "musician" because I don't know what key or what scale I'm in most of the time. Hearing this it's quite reassuring and useful. Thank you!
At the end of the day the only thing that matters is the beat sounding good, hip hop is about that, most of us are not experts on music theory, we work with what we have. Work smarter not harder
A lot of famous musicians from the 60s and 70s didn’t know music theory, or they knew just the basics.
Key and scale is definitely learnable, that's pretty much a science rather than an art. If you just want to have fun beat making with samples it's not required, but it may help you out when you want to match a bassline to your sample.
Respect, someone who I still listen to that rocks layers is Damu. Peace and blessings
i totally get it about not caring about the key and letting your ears do the work but learning a little about music theory can really help understanding why certain cuts don’t work, also filing samples by key comes in handy when your looking for ear candy samples once you know the key of the track your working on. Knowledge is always useful 🙏
‘mixed in key’ vst is helpful to identify the key of samples
You hit the nail on the head. “Just use your ear” I totally agree. In my opinion, just using your ear allows you to develop your own personal “sound”.
Marlow it's a rainy day here in Argentina, hasn't been like that for a while. The second your intro beat kicked in it was a whole vibe. Much love man!
Ehhh wachooo
It really helps to just have a keyboard and try to pitch match the melody of a sample...gives u a ballpark of potential notes that work..and then using something like serato to have it to tell u the key...not always perfect but helps
Man, you're a mentor for all of us. Much respect
Thank you 🙏🏼
use a tuning app for fine tuning to make sure the samples are at least sharp helps a lot..otherwise it leads to problems if say one sample is -38 cents off and the other one +21 cents off, there is a big chance it won’t sound good together
Appreciate you saying that you don’t worry about what key it’s in.
Obviously music theory can be helpful but the ears are what’s most important.
1:00 ☝🏾😌😃 unless you have ripX
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@4:08 unpopular opinion... dissonance is still harmony.
meu favorito è HEY JACK ... muito obrigado para fazer esse video
This Dude is the truth, Do you History on HIp HOP, Was all about how it sounds Fuck the BS
I will blindly trust anyone that has Coltrane prominently featured in their home.
5:13 it's simple. There's nothing to it. Correct!! ...but for creators that don't have your ears yet :) Listen, this is chord motion = the music theory in this beat is this:
Sax sample is a D maj pentatonic scale . Bass and chords move through B minor, F# minor and E minor. Perfect for D pentatonic.
You get good at this by listening to a lot of good music. The patterns show themselves if you take the time.
10,000 hours
You're spitting the truth!
ripx my G
Audacity can change the key of a sample. Free and extremely easy.
butting the sample on 16 levels sometimes works.
If dope DJs spend big time in diggin, its because of that. You have to find "the" sample instead to "change" the sample. If you wanna do the old way I mean. BTW thanks for your videos man.
you can change sample keys by using serato sampler
Why does this dude not have 1+ mill subscribers
Smashed the like button for the Coltrane record in the back
Super informative thanks!
8:54 It would definitely work if you lowered the dB on the sample. 😎
Yep. I was literally screaming "turn it down!" at the screen. It fit fine, it was just too loud.
serato sample helps you w changing the key of your sample
'when "real musicians" play' - Marlow Digs 2021 complete with air quotes. ;) But all jokes aside, top-notch video. I'm one of the peeps asking for more tech tips and really appreciate videos like this. I'd still love a long video without cuts but with multi cam so we can see the display and the knobs and can see what you do and follow the whole process from first loading drums and sampling cuts to mixing and adding fx. Make it a masterclass with downloadable file pack so we can follow along and make the same song together.
When that filter came in that Rhodes sample fitted so much better! Often it is not only about pitching semitones but also micropitching in small increments until it sounds and feels just right. Keep droppin' them gems, Marlow 💎!!!
Serato Sample you can change the key .
I've never heard anyone explain the appeal of dissonance this successfully nor succinctly. Lol awesome. Great vid as always.
Gratitude... ok, so I just gotta put in da work 😁
serato lets you change the key
With all this advanced technology and computer programs we still yet have a good VST plugin that will let us isolate the sample in other words to extract the multi-tracks and be able to do what marlow is talking about or play our own stuff and pitch it up n down to the tampo
If there’s a magical technique to all this, then it would be training your ears and a hell lot of patience for looking for chops that fit.
Can’t you just drop the c-minor down a major sixth which would give you a-minor which is the relative minor of c-major? Then the chord is in c-major.
Might sound wonky dropping a chord 🤷🏾♂️
Actually Melodyne is capable of changing individual notes of a chord. it's crazy. But there's no way on an MPC though
Prep sessions are always as important as production sessions, in my creative flow. Also, I’m grateful you just reminded me to play around more with dissonance.
Good info!! On the real its all about trial and error. I think people try to do what you do and thats wrong meaning taking your style. You have your own ways of layering and i seen myself doing different ways to layer beats!! Being original is key in making beats!! You are original!! Good work!!
Pure truth ser!
God! You just dropping facts. Definitely going to subscribe
Appreciate that thanks
you can change notes within a chord with melodyne but its expensive and not fitting the workflow
Yeah forgot about melodyne, haven't used that in years
Actually...ripX let's you change individual notes within a sample. It's not perfect but works enough of the time
Yes it has a few extras that other programs are missing
i’m still tryna find samples 😴
You can actually change a single note in a sample. With the new Melodyne you can change whatever you want including timing and single notes inside the chord.
Yes I see people saying that in the comment. I've tried the trial version and I am very impressed with it.
That beat was dope tho
Really appreciating your videos, beats are phat, Smooth pure hip hop vibes, I feel like overtime my appreciation for some of them slightly newer and more aggressive old-school style beats like more Gangster rap has faded a little, some begin to sound almost a little tacky for lack of a better word,
but,
these type of beats, I don't think I will ever not love..
Thank You Very, Very, Very Much!❤
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Can you do a tutorial on how to save your samples and how to organize your sounds ?
Boom, thancks
I mean, you can pitch shift to change the key of a sample. It doesn't always yeild the greatest result's but it's there. Great vid man i love this kind of tutorial!
Tmpecho, I was looking for this comment! No offense to Marlo Diggs or anything but... changing the key is a whole other technique all on it's own. If you are willing to put in the work, you can make pitch shifts sound VERY authentic by utilizing other techniques (key locking, tempo adjusting, etc...) I just figured that was part of the package of sampling. I rarely leave a sample sounding exactly as it did when I sampled it, though, Mr. Diggs may have already said what I'm trying to say. Nonetheless, I agree with you
You are amazing
Marlow, I always love all of your videos. I must have missed this one.... but man, this is probably the most easy-to-understand video about sample-based hip-hop. 12 minutes of pure knowledge, experience, and perfect teaching.
Great video
Thanks this video was great and actually helped.
You can most certainly sample a loop of anything and change the key it’s in. I do this in Logic Pro X on a weekly basis. I couldn’t do this when I had my mpc 2000xl and hardware synths. Mind you. The MP’s were designed for drum sampling from the beginning, so theirs not gonna be any functions to change key or scale on a drum sampler. This is why they built keyboard samplers. You may find those functions there. Or find it all around better in a software sequencer like ableton or Logic Pro.
You can do it in Logic now? I didn't know that, do you have a video on that?
@@mpchead I can find one. And it can be done for sure. In two ways. You can record what you want into logic. Chop what you need or truncate the st and end points. Then send or save it to apple loops as a playback sample. You can then adjust it to the key you want it in for your project. The other way is record in what you want without sending it to your loop library. Truncate your points. Click on the region and adjust the key you want it in. But this is why I stop sampling for loops and started sampling for sounds or drum loops.
Good info!
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Or you could pitch-shift what you have to a different key, then add new tones on top to shift the tonal center. For example: If you have a C-minor-triad that you want turned into a C-major, pitch it down to an A-minor, then add a G-note. This would give you a C6.
Clever 👊🏼
@@mpchead Thanks!😀. I love your content
gold vid
Nerd side note: I love the overlay filters on your video. Very dusty and relaxing. Great video as always, brother.
Serato Studio has to be the easiest and best way to layer multiple samples/sounds (in key). Any sample you add after the 1st sample, it will sync to the key of the original sample, and even sync the tempo. Too easy. No work needed.
That sounds great
I don't like Serato.. it makes a person doing the sampling lazy. I don't know how to explain the feeling, but it has such perfect random slices, that it ruins the main thing I love about making music - the process.
You correct !! You just gotta work it out or move to the next and use your ears !!!!!
I was looking for any videos you might have of you using the 3000... No 3000 vids for the mpc head?! damn
Yeah bro they're too expensive for me. Hope they come down in price
@@mpchead The X isn't cheap either ;) I'd guess you like the features the X has over the 3000, which I understand. I had the X for a short time, but it just drove me mad going through so many menus to do something, so I went back to the 3000..... In the end, we're all mpc heads :)
The "wow, it doesn't work!" at 7:30 actually made me laugh. I might have to sample that 😆
Music samples
Loving this Marlow, you are inspiring a whole load of musicians out there 👏👏👏
Do you colour correct your videos or is that a lens? I just got a DSLR to start filming with... I think you use one, too? Great video!
I colour correct, I spend a lot of time on it but you could use LUTS to help out.
@@mpchead Ah ha! Okay, thank you!
It's Almost Like People Don't Realize That Sampling Is Work!
Man, if i may, in Ableton you can extract the notes of a sound and replace the instrumenta that gets converted in, also the notes, it's on a piano roll. Lord Finesse showed it in a video with a masterclass in Moscow. That's pretty dope, right? Anyway, thanks for always provinding us with good info and dope beatmaking sessions~! Inpiring, man, i'm learning a lot! Thanks, respect!
Hi ✌🏼 Yes I know that, I used Ableton a while and used to do that. I meant changing in the sample, not extracting the midi and then changing the notes, because you can't put that back in the sample. Thanks for tuning in bro
@@mpchead makes sense, it'sa not the same sample after. is that still considered sampling though?
peace man!
If I'm Not Mistaking, Don't Waves Torque Changes Notes And Samples, I Know It's Mainly Used For Changing Snare Drums Tones.
This is brilliant stuff. I'm walking away from this video with a different perspective on how I should be using my samples
👌🏻😎👍🏻
ADSR is another key tool
0:31 Wise words of a master, to destroy your perceptions. But then, once your mind starts to realize how far in the iteration of loops of destruction you might have been in, you start to pay more attention to the differences you can manage from everything and be able to see through it all clearly with a genuine sens of being perhaps despite a 'well established identify' or life story to lean on in order to get ahead and keep walking to our death gracefully. Would you know an illusion if you were illusioned? Can you see through ? Can you 'keep an open mind to perceive what you cannot preconceive' ? - Frank Herbert's Dune
The perfect answer for a simple question, thank you!
“I don’t know what key I’m in, and I don’t care” this should be heard by the beat makers who say that you need to learn music theory to a certain degree to produce beats the right way.
Happy to watch an hour long process video tbh. :))
You can change the key of a record with probably every dj app out. They work the best the closer in key the originals are in. It’s definitely not perfection but I’ve had success more times than not.
Once you're experienced enough w producing, you can just go off feel & sound to pitch another sample on top of your song. Stay away from this if you're just starting though. You will most likely pitch something off key but your ears will trick you into believing that it sounds good (happens to so many producers including myself when we're just starting out - we're desperate to create a song, so even the most trash song will sound great in our ears)
Wow.
May GOD bless you for this video, I had a sample that I know I wanted to use, I was kinda stuck on.
This just showed how to make it work.
Thank you.
There is a plugin that does it beautifully. I forgot the name though. It’s not melodyne.
Teach one reach one... Serato sample 💥
What about serato?
It's a great sampling tool worth the mention but your not for your work flow
Thank you! I appreciate you and this you have no idea. Much love from LA!!!
❤️LA
Thanks for your videos Marlow! One comment I would add, which doesn't particularly align with what you're using in studio, the Audio Module in Maschine (MK3/Plus/.etc) can be re-tuned without modifying the tempo and visa-versa, which is extremely helpful when working with disparate samples that you want to align on a root note, or similar. Just a piece of info for anyone who comes across this. Peace!
how you change your studio set up every video? hahahha, thanks for the video bro, always fire shit
I really needed this ! Thanks so much. Really appreciate it. Felt like a one on one class with you 🥺
Do you still own this MPC x model?
No I sold it
@@mpchead I thought you would have kept it in your collection
Blessings.
You can change the keys of a sample using melodyne 🤝
I’m going to say it right now. There is a tool tht can change a sample from major to minor and it’s called serato studio. Now granted it’s a daw but I use it just for tht sometimes.
volume of sample is too high,thats why it sounds hard...easy
love your old skool technics in the background!
Serato sample studio one 5 chord track. Also melo D helps
Not when you are working on hardware in standalone
i like the fact that your telling the truth its narrator from facebook 🤞
why did you say "real musicians"? You are a fucking musician!