3 Levels Of Samplings: How To Become A Master Sampler

[@NavieD]

I hope you're having a lovely week!

[@Philofasus]

Ehh you too bro thanks for making Tuesday's one of the most important days of the week lol

[@JD-bx7ob]

You too bro! Love your content and appreciate you more than I can even say!!

[@MvnStn]

I am. Same to you!

[@DaSesh]

Actually home sick 🤢 normally watch these at work lol but I get a chance to spend a few hours making beats so glad you uploaded !

[@lturner7159]

Wow..thank you brother I am having a lovely week even more now and may your entire season be lovely

[@MvnStn]

The last level is God Tier... I've always been hesitant to use samples or chops of samples over existing samples/loops in a beat, for fear of them clashing. However, the way you did it makes a LOT of sense! Fantastic, Navie! I was starting to get in a slump of not feeling like cooking the last few days, and here you come trumpin' the slump! This has my juices flowing again, Thanks!

[@MvnStn]

Also, this vid helped me realize (to some extent, anyway) what my main problem is, which is my taste in samples! lol, I tend to pick very melodic samples with nice, beefy loopage, whereas you went with an almost abstract track and pieced together a future hit. I am going to implement this into my digging and see what happens! Thanks, again.

[@NavieD]

Hahah I am happy to get your juices flowing ; )

[@gonbeats]

Kendrick Lamar beats use that technique a lot too, if done well it sounds amazing

[@MvnStn]

@@NavieD that makes 2 of us! :D

[@MvnStn]

@@gonbeats 100!

[@HzofArt]

Another great tip is find samples from different records and blending them together tuning the pitches so they match 👍🏾

[@prodbytarantino]

God tier shit 😩

[@davidbutler5101]

@@prodbytarantino bruh that's regular af

[@vecrisv]

You can try adding fx's to your first pattern, bounce it and use it as a sample... re-sampling a sample, somehow lmao

[@creationbeatsuk]

I've been making beats on and off for around 10 years and I think you are the only person I watch where I come away feeling like I've learnt something new that I can take away with me.

[@allinonethegreat]

👀👀👀👀👀 Seems like you’re using the wrong DAW. Studio One 5 #1

[@Ultimo-21]

I really needed this. Almost like he can read minds.

[@NavieD]

🧠 I see your brain

[@2beablessing2012]

He hunt the 🧠 great 👍 find

[@beatsbythekilo]

I swear, I say the same thing most videos.. I still thank the guys who introduced me to Navie lol rs

[@raynishawitherspoon3718]

Seriously I just started taking his course and he said sampling is easier to work with at first. I just constantly kept running into the problem of it not lining up right or working correctly, searching for a samples with simpler bpms. Now sampling can be done so much easier

[@nettoliko3917]

All the guys here on YT only show us what they did on FL but Navie really teaches us. I‘m very glad that i joined your advanced beatmaker course. Keep going like that Navie bro…

[@slackstarfish8133]

Here’s how to make an interesting sample flip: Use different parts of the sample at your choosing, wether it’s every bar, half bar, or quarter note. Do this a few times, maybe occasionally repeating the first quarter note of a bar of the sample, and replacing the second note with it, then continuing how the sample originally was. It gives it that cool MPC-feel. To get especially ineteresting, you can stack different parts of the sample on top of each other. If it clashes, lower the volume or you can eq it till it sounds good. There’s a lot you can do. Like eq or throw an interesting VST on part of the sample but keep the rest normal. It’s all just about what makes the sample cool different parts of the samples

[@amirito2931]

This comment is brilliant! Might be the best one ive ever seen

[@amirito2931]

I need to remember it :)

[@1235tristan]

@@amirito2931 screenshot it that's what I do

[@Buenopablito]

I just see this video and think: how the heck did daft punk came with A WHOLE ALBUM of songs that basically are samples almost 20 years ago, without all the technology and it became one of the greatest albums. This is an art, very well done explaining this hard process and teaching it!

[@NavieD]

True enough. Sampling way back then was so much more difficult. Kudos to all of those dudes

[@duart310]

This has to be thee stupidest comment I have EVER read lol

[@Noldy__]

MPC.

[@isomatic]

Been cookin up with Slicex for over a decade and today just realized only the S, E, and X are highlighted orange in the Slicex logo on the top right corner.

[@NavieD]

ollolo FL is about to get sued for these perverted images

[@isomatic]

@@NavieD hahaha xD

[@seoulsoul7446]

Oh shit I just noticed that...

[@gavinwalker6726]

im deadass chillin in my studio with fl open i was stumped on how to use this sample then u drop this. thank youuu!!!

[@NavieD]

Hahah I have read your brain Gavin

[@eazyersi6944]

I personally love sampling, its fun, makes you creative and unique in too many different ways , great video as always 🔥

[@NavieD]

Thank you Eazy!

[@JSewellBeats]

I have mastered the Bating. Now I can master the Sampling. Thanks Navie.

[@NavieD]

I see what you did there

[@GLARELIS4LOL]

Cant believe how lucky i am i found you. Small but so much informative videos. Im learning so much faster newer techniques and getting a better overall perspective thanks to you. Keep up

[@NavieD]

I am happy you found me too my friend

[@mlou4902]

Thanks for giving this game out to the people for free man. I use Ableton and a lot of your tutorials really have helped me apply myself further in production.

[@NavieD]

Awesome! I am glad these tips still apply no matter what DAW you use

[@mlou4902]

@@NavieD thanks again! I actually had a follow up question: do you think you can flip just about any sample with the right manipulation skills? Or is it really important to focus on using those skills on samples that can be manipulated? I hope that makes sense!

[@thetylersherman]

1:58 Excited to hear what you do with this sample because IMO it just does not have the sauce. 3:30 OK, maybe we're making some headway. 5:45 Master of the GRIME

[@NavieD]

Hahah you can find the sauce in the most unsaucy locations

[@thetylersherman]

@@NavieD It turns out... that the sauce comes from within. 🥲

[@SkionV]

seriously you are the most crucial resource for anyone starting out to use FL 20 as their primary daw, thanks so much navie you are the real GOAT

[@NavieD]

You are welcome my magical friend

[@bdev5988]

Wasn't sure about the first beat, but man you turned it into something so cool. The power of sampling is crazy!

[@NavieD]

Hahah yeah, I just have my own "ear" for samples, and sounds I gravitate towards

[@pratikinnani4449]

this channel is a legendary channel. i subbed at 6-7k because of the quality of information and it is still on POINT. Love brother 💓

[@Netm8kr]

Good stuff, the last phase had me hearing Wu-Tang’s “Ice Cream” in my head. Before it trapped out. ✌🏾👍🏾

[@Aywusgod]

I swear I was just thinking about how I could really utilize sampling, thanks a lot bro

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

Thanks for this 3 techniques. God bless you 🙂🙏🏼❤️

[@NavieD]

Thank you for watching Kerwin!

[@quietstorm6690]

I haven’t made beats in years and I’ve been researching how modern music is today and I have to say…you gave me some inspiration. I want to say thank you for that. I’ve always sampled but I mainly use loops but it’s great to learn new ways to sample and I learned a lot from this video

[@parkerthefrost4172]

Yo! timing here is insane, just last night I wanted to really get into sampling and now I got a good idea of how to do it!

[@NavieD]

It was meant to be Parker

[@wiseknowin777]

Not for nothing Navie, but you are on point with your clear and precise instructions. And your beats are pretty dope my brother. I'm impressed.

[@NavieD]

Thank you boss! Happy to help

[@squalley]

God Mode: integrate you sample to where you don't notice it there. I usually write around the sample and use the sample as an instrument within my composition. It's still there but barely noticeable 🥃

[@kerose]

indeed.. my favorite is when i can remove the sample completely and the beat stands on its own. the sample just gives it texture.. almost like it starts at the forefront and eventually just becomes ambience..

[@Rufusdos]

The beat you opened this with is freaking great.

[@messiahjenkins8679]

serato & the nnxt in Reason is my main form of sampling. This video was very helpful / insightful.

[@dannyfletcher]

oh my goodness this is LITERALLY what I've been looking for thank you so much what a great video!

[@NavieD]

You are welcome Auguste!

[@jaketrotter8233]

This is gonna be a huge help. I'm horrible at sampling lol

[@youngsemitruck4x417]

😤def the best channel

[@hp2345]

Really appreciate these videos man

[@NavieD]

I appreciate you watching them!

[@bernardbenjamin5607]

Really needed this video thanks dude

[@NavieD]

You're welcome!

[@noreaction1]

I use looping all the time, most frequently I loop one or two wave cycles and make synthesized sounds and textures from them

[@NavieD]

Ahhh I see I see. Have you considered trying other sampling techniques?

[@THA-REAPER]

I sampled plenty of times regarding the last tier. It's easy you just need to first use some math with time stretching/warping, understand what's in or out of tune, and use mixing effects to either separate or mesh frequencies together. Use the semitones to control the speed of the chop. I love how you made the thumbnail, because I always thought of it as in 3 layers. The icing on the cake is getting the plugins or synths on key.

[@NavieD]

It can be difficult when you're first starting out to wrap your end around all of these sampling concepts. While it may be easy to you my friend, it is probably less so for a newer producer

[@THA-REAPER]

@@NavieD Yeah you're right. Honestly I've been at it for more than half my life lol. Getting things in tune was no walk in the park. My ears developed a lot more by not being 100% in the sample crowd or 100% in the synth or plugin crowd, but both then I started combining what I know. I always played with effects...from using too much to trying to use them minimal only if needed. These days it's a lot easier to learn I'm amazed and jealous how fast people can pick up now. I started a little before KZbin and when music software was a new questionable thing.

[@albertmcbee8299]

Very thoroughly shown and explained. Big ups fi sharing bredda. 🤜🏾🤛🏾 Subscribed ✅ 💯🇯🇲🇧🇷

[@NavieD]

Glad to have you on board Albert

[@nevermore6171]

Super useful as always, Navie! I've randomly discovered the newtime warping option just like a few days ago and my sampling game improved so much. Crazy to think just how many options and functions each DAW holds

[@Major_FaimOfficial]

I love those drums at the beginner loop part! Almost snapped my neck lol

[@manatarmsslaps]

Nice video.. really dig your sample break down videos.. i've used all 3 in one beat at times..

[@NavieD]

I plan on putting another one out in a few weeks, so stay tuned!

[@manatarmsslaps]

@@NavieD oh absolutely... Love your videos bro ..

[@baaxt3r]

can you tell me how to change pitch/time of individual chops in slicex, thank you great video

[@NavieD]

I have a video on how to use Slice X if you wanna look it up. A word of warning, it's a pain to do! (Which is why I stopped using Slice X)

[@81bpm]

I'm sure you know bout more levels. For instance sampling multiple samples to create one dope sample. Maybe 4 a future vid, liked the content. Keep at it bro💯💪🏾

[@WyDLouis]

Maan I love doing this

[@Phantasma999]

I like this video because it starts with a loop tutorial and ends with a lesson on Stravinsky's & Boulez composition technics

[@citybusmuzik7558]

P.E.A.C.E. learning alot thanks

[@NavieD]

Glad to help!

[@BuckBowen]

Was expecting a trap beat on the beginner version, but then shit hit hard af on some Dan the Automator flavor. Thank you.

[@Tulizukka]

Old folks tales and rumours tell of another level, level so magical its been seen rarely. Somewhere out there is a sampling level of DJ Shadow.

[@Mr.TeETH78]

@beatbatter kits! Love ‘em!

[@seanarooni]

Great video, learned some things and all three levels were sick in their own ways imo. One tool I occasionally like to use to manipulate samples within the FL playlist is the slip tool (s hot key).

[@staysmuth]

I'd love to see you branch this into a conversation about creating active compositions

[@NavieD]

I am thinking of doing a more "watch me make beats" type of video soon

[@STANLEY2BRICKS]

Does anyone else REALLY miss the OG vinyl frontier channel (before adding plus to the name) cuz that shit was way more gully on avg than the present channel js

[@andrewhudson5435]

W human, W video, W teacher, W everything. Mans a walking W

[@amirito2931]

Amazing video. Your channel is a goldmine

[@MIDAZSITH]

Let's get this guy to 100k.

[@forsale313]

Thanks for the video. Always good to revisit things like because I always pick up some new stuff and you always remind me of thing i used to do before.

[@briansumanofficial]

Needed to see this one! Thank you. 👏

[@SMEL]

Well said... Gratitude 🤝🏾...

[@torinshaw1084]

Man this video made me realized how insane “Since I Left you” by Avalanches is, especially considering the fact it was 23 years ago and made entirely using samples!

[@rjnoxx408]

That last beat was HELLA hard!! Slapped harder than “what did the five fingers say to the face??”!!

[@NavieD]

ollol thank you my friend

[@normsoundwave]

Thanks bro this was really helpful and a major Gem 🙏🏾

[@mykal92684]

hey navie, if u hold shift and alt ur slice tool will chop straight up and down and the alt disregards snap to grid. Sry, i noticed you chopping diagonaly and wanted to share.

[@Phosphor_Sco]

Couldn't give my girlfriend a shout this week... turns out she's not in to producing as much as I am :/ But here I am watching another BANGER and looking forward to trying all the tips. Great video as usual

[@NavieD]

Thank you Ryoto!

[@gmunyielding6302]

Keep the videos coming bro!😀

[@NavieD]

Just dropped another one today!

[@GoReallaBeatz]

wow bro you killing me.lol i never knew that newtime did that. its still parts of FL i dont know about. im gonna have to checkout your slicex and that newtime video. great share

[@NavieD]

Ohh yeah, it can be a huge gamechanger!

[@GoReallaBeatz]

@@NavieD i bet it has

[@kennettajackson767]

Great video! Learned a lot from this

[@NavieD]

Thank you Netta!

[@artkitectbeats1622]

The disappointment in your expression at the 7:00 mark when you said, "but for the sake of this tutorial I know many of you are using SliceX so I'm just gonna go ahead and use that" speaks volumes about how much you love Serato. There really is no turning back once you use Serato. It's a sampler's wet dream.

[@the_rhykker]

Mans is an actually legend

[@duc3r_prod]

Its so satisfying to see you making this tips for everybody man, i got this by tryal and error, and you made a class qith it, niiice

[@sohsuh7625]

Awesome video! Love all your videos thank you very much for making them. Can you make a video on EQing bass for 90s style hip hop? Mine always sounds so thick and muddy, and like its squeezing my ears when I listen. Not sure how to EQ or compress it properly to fit in. It either sounds way too loud or way too quiet.

[@omaro8240]

Thank you, much appreciated

[@NavieD]

Thank you my friend! How is life going?

[@omaro8240]

@@NavieD I'm very optimistic everything seems to be getting better. Thank you for asking.

[@FlowSpeaks]

Ohhh my I never knew about new time, I was going insane trying to line the sample up

[@trillntrilln]

Needed this video years ago starting out but you're putting people on wit info, props 🤝🏽

[@xlmightbeatz]

great video Master!

[@NavieD]

Thank you dude!

[@bronzkhrome4024]

so basically this is all FL? don't care for it, but I'm good. good effort in explaining

[@rathesungod4]

I just time stretch to 4 8 16 or 32 then choose my own bpm. It's probably simpler and definitely faster. (For beginners help). Double click sample and you'll see a "time" wheel it'll stretch the sample accordingly regardless of what bpm is set

[@NavieD]

Yeah, either way is definitely valid

[@TsarToNk]

Bruh the EASIEST WAY! 😂🙌🏾

[@rickmyre3667]

Thanks for the great info!!! How about an indepth tutorial on Serato Sample??

[@NavieD]

Hmm it's possible, it's possible

[@morpheus3693]

i'm happy to see i'm a Master sampler :)

[@nep611]

Bro all your beats are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@NavieD]

Damn, thanks dude!

[@Sigmaairav]

Huh, I seem to have been doing these things already by instinct, thus just brings clarity to what I have been doing quite helpful

[@NavieD]

Hahah you're ahead of your time

[@Sigmaairav]

@@NavieD granted, I have done this with prerecorded samples or through mixing down midi tracks if virtual instruments in my DAW rather than by recording fresh samples and manipulating them. I probably should get myself to start sampling sounds around me

[@deeal5336]

beat used was actually pretty good. Usually with these kinds of videos they are not..... subbd

[@grillandtaste]

YOUR VERY RARE NAVIE THANKYOU BRO

[@KarasamaBeats]

Nice video bro !

[@MarkusAudio]

Subscribed for the science of sampling (and the unexpected FL tips) :-)

[@mattzr1550]

So strange seeing people not being able to timewarp quickly like in ableton

[@seoulsoul7446]

Wrd

[@challengerprod]

You can timewarp just as quick in FL Studio tbh it's just that there are multiple ways to do it not every producer youtuber is efficient tbh they all have different methods of doing the same thing

[@rdsmofficial]

It's disabledton

[@meya3521]

took me a couple long sessions. dont get too cocky though ableton is a huge program cant master everything overnight

[@seoulsoul7446]

@@challengerprod it's automatic in Ableton doe...👀🤣

[@amirito2931]

Ur the beat scientist

[@NavieD]

👨‍🔬 thank you!

[@JayJayRealhiphop]

Og's know these already.. before daws. Manually on mpcs etc

[@NavieD]

ok

[@minnevisionsproductions1709]

I'm feeling like that sample is from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.....the part when he's looking for Han in the mirror room....and there is another part in the movie I feel like it's used in...my spidey sample senses are tingling 😂

[@NavieD]

I'll never tell teehee

[@burnaboy13]

damn thats dope i heard conway nd benny all on that

[@NavieD]

Glad you liked the beat man!

[@GunninRebel55]

Nicely laid out, helpful, and super dope tutorial. Subbed for sure! Thank you!

[@marvin469]

Naive D bruh ! This video is golden, I'm a dude who "plays" music and Ive always wanted to sample; at least small portions within my own production but I strayed away because I wouldn't want get sued, I remember back in the days they had a program called Cool edit pro and FL 3 I would dabble in it but I never put more than 15-30 min into it (per yr lol)but now I got Serato sample I really want to go in. I use FL20/MASCHINE /mpc live 1/Ableton/reason and I've never sampled but I'm bout to give it a shot. U really broke stuff down in this vid👍

[@DavidJonesAirway]

Love the tips, using them as I type this. Back to work

[@gawdgettinallwedeserve]

This man is too dope

[@NavieD]

Thank you young Gawd

[@Joker-mo8tb]

A video about how to manipulate 90s 2000s RnB samples?

[@NavieD]

Hmmm I feel like I've seen a lot of those videos recently

[@JD-bx7ob]

Dope Video!

[@NavieD]

Thank you JD!

[@Tjorpas]

Lol I got the dirty face when u dropped that beat damn

[@NavieD]

Hahah excellent!

[@Philofasus]

YOO that first beat had me noddin my head so hard I nearly spilled my coffee. That was so dope.

[@NavieD]

Hahah I hope you didn't burn yourself

[@Philofasus]

@@NavieD I held it together for the most part lol

[@justyna4276]

Very impressive

[@NavieD]

Thank you Redd!

[@AlbertoGonzalez-jq2eq]

videos like these always minimize the power of madlib loops and half of griselda’s prod, he has great tips but it’s not worth comparing different types of sampling bc it’s mostly based on the sample ur working on anyway not every song can be chopped and not every song can be looped. not to mention his loop beat being ass makes it seem like it’s a worse style of prod when it’s got HITS in every decade of hip hop

[@RootinrPootine]

The best comment and only 2 likes lol! Fucking the whole point is it’s taste. He starts with loop (beginner) and immediately says “I got this sample from someone else…”. Ok, then you already failed. The whole difference is your taste in music. If you can’t even be bothered to listen to good music and hear the loops in it then you will never even be at beginner level. Christ, the play head and the chop points even within a simple loop can be chosen any quarternote-well or poorly-and most of the great beats were just that. Not effects. Not fiddly techniques.

[@juliogurrola3645]

That was awesome

[@NavieD]

Thank you Julio!

[@diogorosa3265]

nice

[@NavieD]

Thank you!

[@thedominator1385]

the third level is the definition of "trust the process"

[@9.v.obeatz146]

🔥🔥🔥 super clean beat too

[@NavieD]

Thank you!

[@TwO-fac3og]

💎💎💎🧠...be@t is grimey 🤘🏾🤘🏾...thx for the knxwledge🎭