Week 5-Learning more about sampling

Most of the big time producers right now sample their music so I thought it is important to learn more about sampling. In music Sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of a sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

Types of Samples:

Vocals/Lyrics:Some producers sample vocals for example
Ahmad's song "We Want the Funk" that was released in 1994 was recently sampled in a song released this year called "King Kunta" by Kendrick Lamar

This is the original song released in 1994

(sample appears in 0:21)

This is the song that sampled the vocals from Ahmad

(sample appears in 3:17)

Instrument:another type of sample is taking instruments from a song and using them in a different song, you could use the original instrument track or you cant change it up a bit for example Cold Grits drum track for "Its Your Thing" was taken and sampled on "Then Blacker The Berry" and they changed the pattern of the drums and also added more bass to them.

Original Drum track released in 1969 

"Blacker the Berry" drum track

(sample appears 0:11 and throughout)

 

Multiple Elements: The last type of sample 1 learned about was multiple elements, This is basically almost sounding like the original, it is multiple sounds together the to make a complex sound. The person who samples the original might add a couple of more sounds to it.Usually the person who samples it gives producer credits to the original maker of the tune even though the instrumental was not originally made for them . Here are some examples

Knxledge instrumental, so[rt] that was released in 2013 

(appears 0:12)

The original was used in Kendrick Lamar's track "Momma" that was released this year

Another example is Boom Clap Bachelors song "Tiden Flyver"

  

In this example you can tell that the sampler added some more sounds and instruments but sounds identical to the original.

Week 4

This week I wanted to make some beats but I didn't have enough time because I spent a lot of time looking for old tracks to sample off of. I found couple and that is what i will be working on this week.

Some albums that are going to inspire my work are:

Oxymoron by Schoolboy Q

                                                           Cilvia Demo by Isaiah Rashad

                                                         
                                              Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar

A lot of the music I produce will be similar to the tracks on this album because this is my favorite album right now because it is based on Kendrick's life growing up in Compton and it is mostly produced by Dr Dre,my favorite producer , he is also a Compton native. The reason I like this album so much is because I also grew up in Compton for a good portion of my life and I understand his music better because in some of the tracks he says what happen to him in a certain part of town and I know exactly what he is talking about.

Here is a picture of a concert that I attended. he preformed some tracks from Good Kid, M.A.A.D City for free this past Christmas at his hometown of Compton,California.

Here is a picture of Dr Dre(right)Kendrick Lamar(middle) and another famous rapper from Compton, The Game(Left)