Hope you enjoyed this new format sample-heads 👊 Which producer's sampling techniques should we dive into for the next one?

@Zeddunes27

Жыл бұрын

Sample Breakdown: The Pharcyde - Runnin' (prod by J Dilla)

@Zeddunes27

Жыл бұрын

Sample Breakdown: Common - The Light (prod by J Dilla)

@Zeddunes27

Жыл бұрын

Sample Breakdown: Illa J - All Good (prod by J Dilla)

@morreddie717

Жыл бұрын

Q-tip and Dj muggs

@analogcrunch4716

Жыл бұрын

Good ones lol no J Dilla he’s corny

Sample Breakdown: J Dilla - Donuts (Full Album)

@RuLo253253

Жыл бұрын

i had a dream...

@patrikkovacs8396

Жыл бұрын

I would sit down with my family on a nice sunday evening and watch the whole 2 hour documentary, if there was one.

@comeondontgonow

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnxhkpiNYtS0opM.html

@johnnydee6274

Жыл бұрын

That would be a dope series…with one song breakdown per week

@lazarogarcia7108

Жыл бұрын

Please do tracklib 🙏🙏🙏

There's even more to this technique than what is covered in the video. If you listen to the original sample versus Dilla's flip, you'll notice that both of them follow the same chord progression, Eb minor to F minor, 2 bars each. This suggests that Dilla might have categorized his chops fitting into those chords, whether deliberately or unconsciously. Instead of picking samples and fitting them together at random, he plays the chops as if he was playing a remix of the original. What this also allows Dilla to do is play around with different combinations of chops while still sounding coherent and following the chord progression. Let's say you have 2 groups of chops, Group A for the first chord, Group B for the second chord. You can go through the entire sampled track to find bits and pieces that you then put into their respective groups based on the underlying chord. If you want to go even further, make subgroups of those groups that are divided into whether that chop comes from a kick, snare, or hihat in the original. Once you have those groups set up and organized, it becomes much easier to make sense of the chops and what they imply musically. What Dilla did in Don't Cry is alternate between Group A and Group B, creating variations within those groups by giving himself more options than a standard beat would require.

@quietizkept

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could like this comment 14 times.

@quietizkept

Жыл бұрын

make that 16+1 because that's a full clip of technique broken down

@hashjus3198

Жыл бұрын

is there a way you could make a video explaining this?

@SmashingSebastianTV

Жыл бұрын

It's like searching for parts where there's as good as no vox that inner fears with the progression. The reason it still sounds like it has always been designed this way is that the bassline is the constant correct factor if you hear the loop. The rest swirls around it but still sounds good because notes of different instruments where already designed to combine a beautiful melody. So the bass sounds organic and realtime played but the other sounds seem like staccato instrument stabs while both sounds are in that sample part.

@ayao

Жыл бұрын

I doubt he thought of that. Probably just chopped nice sounding parts an played them in a cohesive manner

Don’t cry is insane, J had that ear 🎧🦻

@captain.s1918

Жыл бұрын

I found this video too early didn’t I? 😂

@tracklib

Жыл бұрын

@@captain.s1918 Lol yeah get outta here ❣

when i first heard Don't Cry intro part, i realised this will become one of my favorite tracks of all time the vibe, the beat, the vocal chopping, the skills of J Dilla left me speechless after first listening to Don't Cry and the whole Donuts...

not gonna lie, that accidental swing rhythm at 5:38 is kinda sick

@mrchromexxx

10 ай бұрын

ikrrr i wanted to hear that longer and flow on it

@prod.xx808xx

8 ай бұрын

Exactly. 😅 It's sounds like a Dilla beat, even like that.

The beat made with this technique was actually classic wtf??? Amazing!!!

@tnaoro

Жыл бұрын

This is amazing too: 10:08

I commented it before, but the “Extended Breakdowns” are by far my new favorite series on KZread. I could watch these all day. Please continue this series. It’s Absolutely the most entertaining content on KZread for a sample boom bap beat maker.

One tip that always helps me is in the exploring different sequences phase, I record myself messing around and experimenting. Have been in the situation where I get a groove I like going, take my hands off the pad to hit record, and then completely lose the vibe I had

@jesperborgstrm3385

Жыл бұрын

Happens all the time. Thanks to retrospective recording in Cubase I now never worry about that stuff (because it is now constantly recording everything in the background within a two minute tape loop). Aaah the freedom to never hit record haha😂

That Grease flip is insane

“Last donut of the night” makes me cry every time I listen to it 😢

20 years.. 4 grammy noms n 10x platinum producer here... these things we learned from dilla & hitek ect we just felt n did... its amazing how well you not only learned but also explain so well... good job bro.. hiphop lives...

@pedroyanez2638

Жыл бұрын

loved experimental bro you good

i cant remember where i read this but, the chops seem so random throughout the track, but if you took all the high end away, he's writing a bassline. thats why he picked those seemingly random parts. i've heard daft punk have done the same with samples too. cus with dance music and instrumental hip hop its all about the drums and bass

JD didn't start using the MPC 3000le until early 2000s. It wasn't even available until 2000. He used a SP 12, SP 1200, MPC 60 and mkII, all before 2000. That's a huge part of his catalog. Donuts wasn't made on the MPC. He used Protools on a laptop and a Roland 404.

@kulas215

Жыл бұрын

He was also in pain and didn’t make much music in the hospital. Nor did he arrange Donuts. Jeff Jank created longer versions of Dilla’s tracks, named a few, and arranged them.

@wellfedstarvingartist

Жыл бұрын

@@Ulukitkan recently been hearing the Donuts that here on the record wasn't arranged by himself, is this true or nah?

@Darie2006

Жыл бұрын

Dilla started using the 3000 in 96 so you’re very wrong about that

@wellfedstarvingartist

Жыл бұрын

@@Darie2006 so he started on 3000? If he did then yeah I'm way off. But where your evidence to support this?

@wellfedstarvingartist

Жыл бұрын

@@Darie2006 @sources?

Excellent breakdown and the beat you made sounds fresh!

I saw that mpc in the black history museum 🙏🏽

Salute for the work it takes to make these.

I hit watch as soon as I saw the thumbnail. Tracklib is one of my most loved channels on KZread.

After all this time people still study and analyze Dilla’s artwork which is just a testament that you can indeed be yourself, go off the beaten path, succeed at it and leave a legacy.

Fantastic, a video on my birthday. tysm Tracklib

J DILLA IS THE GOAT ! THANK YOU SO MUCH TRACKLIB !

Just a masterpiece song no matter sampling at this level

Donuts is a masterpiece and a landmark album in music.

best video you guys have ever created

This video was fire... rip J dilla gone but not forgotten.

Dont nobody come close to the donuts. You cant find nobody doing this stuff. ❤

I’m so happy to see this video mayne

Huh. I’m rather surprised I haven’t properly found out about this person before now. He was a true Musical Genius. I’m also rather sad to learn now that he passed away at such a young age. But I’m still really happy to finally learn about J Dilla and his music. “The Light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly Roy.” - Tyrell (from “Blade Runner”)

I hate when artists usually have to die to become the best or most influential. Before he respectfully passed away, he never garnished as much attention as the internet has now portrayed, especially this past year. R.I.P. Dilla #detroit

@simonpitt4080

Жыл бұрын

people forget that, but it's great that everyone and their ma knows the music now.

@sp1200M3D

Жыл бұрын

@@simonpitt4080 Nujubes should get just as much attention imo. Thanks for the feedback dude.

@simonpitt4080

Жыл бұрын

@@sp1200M3D for sure. in the lo-fi beatmaking scene definitely nujabes should get the black roses. got to say tho that on a musical level dilla is on a wild level tho

@sp1200M3D

Жыл бұрын

@@simonpitt4080 Agreed, I wasn’t a fan of all the Slum Village work though. Not all of Dilla’s work was all that great respectfully.

@simonpitt4080

Жыл бұрын

@@sp1200M3D respectfully got to disagree actually ☺ the vibes however are incredibly varied, so i can still understand the sentiment. everyone feeds off different feelings.

this the most beautiful video of all time

@envergadura1

Жыл бұрын

You too

I was doing this in the mid-1990's... inspired by Art Of Noise mid-80's records... great video and graphics!

Fall in love (trinity album) and Players for me is one of most epic songs that i've heard from jd.

Give Dilla his flowers 💐 he changed the game.

the goat🔥

Detroit is that one unique city that will just occasionally SMASH the music industry out of nowhere, whether it’s early house or hiphop. The electronic roots run so so deep in that city.

@cheef825

Жыл бұрын

My city Seattle turns rock on its head every now and then, but I do wish we had any sort of hip hop chops at all...

Such a cool video seeing the beat made in real time

This is a great representation of the workflow.

The tracks were worked on MPC 3000, SP-303 and Pro Tools

your beat came out really good using Dilla's technique thank you 4 dis video

I love this channel

Great of All Time🕊

great video

love this channel🫶🏼✨

History and heat making? Thanks for this. 👏👏

You are the best

Wow I still own all of my copies of scratch magazine. Unfortunate it didn't last long. But I loved every moment of them.

I love these. I'd love to see if you could break down "Population Control" by Company Flow. The sample flip seems straightforward at first, but after listening extensively to the sample and the CoFlow track, I realised there's more to it that I can't completely figure out.

Dope I like that record pick .

thank yu tracklib

thx this is really good

Dilla was the shyt with them samples!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Everytime i here someone explain about this guy... My skin shiver... Its plain to see he was an Alien.. R.I.P DeWitt

Amazing video

Man how i missed Scratch Mag. Have each one from 1 to the end, short run but i had them all and was amazing. reason i bought a ASR10 from producers in there talking about it and made me love my MPCs more then ever. 3000, 1000, and rare used 2 and 500

Great video once more! You should really do Giannis by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, the beat is insane on that track

this is crazy

I still need more Dilla

Craazy good

This is great wow

J Dilla changed my life

Bay-Bay!!!! Miss you JayDee!!! 🫶🏾🤍🫶🏾

I feel like if J Dilla were alive he would be roasting all these music nerds about their insanely complex analysis on what was probably a very simple concept to understand.

And the fact that there wasn't any DAW or any of the advanced tech to manipulate samples back then except for the MPC3000 (which is still a hard thing to do) proves that he just built different

Now can you do a beautiful on 9th wonder? I feel like he's super slept on.

@selfmadesince89

Жыл бұрын

I AGREE! Not many beatmakers doing their thing strong for 20 years still. My fav producers are The Neptunes, 9th Wonder, Charles Hamilton haha and J Dilla

@aywhatupdoe

Жыл бұрын

@@selfmadesince89 Charles Hamilton is probably the most slept on producer. That man has a superhuman catalogue of sample flips.

This video is 🥇

Eight note even 16th note chops is how u do it with out timestretch, and make the sample fit the drums. like how we used to do it with the sp1200

Informative

Wow very interesting video

This is why J-Dilla is the GOAT.

Damn your beat was nice even without messing with the vocals or too much, just straight chops.

i can't imagine how j dilla can break the game with all the tecnologys we got in the present. Its funny cause may be hard think on jd without a mpc

G.O.A.T. !!!!!

Dilla made these from at home on his desktop in Pro Tools. 😂. People be hyping it with myths while the music speaks for itself. Greatness.

@pjw3d87

Жыл бұрын

Word. These breathless sample break down videos get way too deep. Dilla is/was amazing still..

@drinkinouttacups2665

Жыл бұрын

Well said

@keyboardwarrior4092

9 ай бұрын

all while being extremely ill. he’s just built different bro, he’s the production god

@binhao601

5 ай бұрын

Partly only

RIP DILLA 🕊🕊🕊✊ THE G.O.A.T.

Can yall do a Full Album sample breakdown of "Metaphorical Music" or "Modal Soul" both by Nujabes.

Legend ❤🗿

Cheers.

Wow that word manipulation was crazy

He was too dope

For anybody struggling to figure out the difference between chopping on the quarter notes Vs chopping on the eighth notes, just chop the Ands between "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and". There, you've got some eighth note chops.

nice :)

J DILLA was Masterful.

Is there any full version of the track at the end that you created? Sounds dope.

Nice

God I love 303 compression.

pls do a sample breakdown of out of time by weeknd thanks

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

💀☠@ 1:05 .... "James DO-IT Yancey"

THIS SHIT IS SO FUCKING COOLL WHATT

could you upload the full j Dilla inspired song and great video

This an example of how the underground been doin something long before the mainstream knew. 🤷🏽‍♂️

the anniversary of Dilla's birthday. isn't that just his birthday? lol 3:10

Sample breakdown:America's most blunted please!!

Donuts was made on the SP303

I WANT J DILLA BACK SO HARD

rest in peace j dilla

Just realized that Donuts could be a reference to studio monitors 🍩 🔈

Did you just re-format the J dills vice article?

1:59 - 2:13: Okay. This one is plain Trippy. I see how he did that but I still wonder “How?”.

yo what app is this? been trying to get into beatmaking