Picasso spent the years of 1900 to 1906 in what is referred to as the Blue and Rose Period. The Blue period involved the use of blue in most of Picasso’s works to represent a negativity and bleakness of Pablo Picasso paintings and those within them. Art experts, even those who disbelieve his later innovative style, respected his blue period. The rose period signaled a choice of brighter pink tones over the previous blues.

One of the most important – and fun – parts of planning a bridal reception is deciding on the wedding centerpieces. Should you go elegant or informal? Bold or understated? Put some time into this, as it might well be one of the first decisions you and your future groom make together about your wedding day.

If you want to successfully layer drum samples together to make new ones, you should be aware of all the technical aspects and techniques and methods the end result can be achieved. Knowing the history of drum samples – from their sampled nature in the 70s and 80s and even today, to their electronic synthesis over the same timeline – will help you a lot in really being a master of the subject. Live and synthesized drum samples are out there, and hybrids also exist. The latter seems to be dominating songs as of late.

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Your drum sample collection is maybe your most prized collection of sounds used for music production, so why would you risk losing it all because of some computer loss of data? I mean, this is not the most far-fetched thing in the world. It’s happens hundreds of thousands of times daily all around the world. Don’t be another victim. I bet you have a lot of songs that are dependent on drum samples that are stored in a specific directory. And you know you cannot really get the same sound of any beat with different samples; no, not a beat you’ve spent hours crafting just perfectly!

These days, selecting drum samples for use in electronic music production should be as easy as pie. So why is it so hard and frustrating? There are literally hundreds and even thousands of free drum sounds for anybody to download right onto their computers and then even take onto hardware samplers and such. One of the main complaints often voiced concerns the time needed to sort through these samples; a lot are not organized correctly, and even the ones that are organized are misnamed and mismatched a lot of the time. This all leads to many hours of needing to audition sample after sample to get a good batch together.

In this piece, we’re going to be addressing a few questions about hip hop (or another urban music genre) drum samples. These questions are often posed on the most popular music production and beat making forums, and the range of answers provided is sometimes disturbing. Getting correct and unbiased opinions can be a difficult feat this in day and age, with e-rep so prevalent in forums and online communities. The music production communities are not exempt from this observation. Let’s begin!

Top music producers often tell magazines and websites that picking out drum samples is just about an art form these days. This is at least partly true. Think about it, the top 40 (and even beyond) pop and hip hop tracks are dominated by producers who know how to choose drums that take their tracks to another level.

Any person with a personal computer can develop and make their own drum samples for various purposes. It is still not such an easy process and the learning curve can be quite steep, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be able to make your own unique, signature drum samples with ease and precision like a professional.

Reverb, when applied to drum samples, is grossly underused in popular music. At the same time, though, a lot of the people who make use of the effect for their drum parts abuse it and degrade the drum samples to the point of annoyance.