Sampling or Music Theory: How should I produce music?

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to go over some basic things that you need to be aware of in order to take advantage of your skills and how to properly use technology to your advantage when creating music.

Let’s get into it

Sampling Vs Music theory? Why not both?

So in all reality, you need to use both sampling and music theory to actually make your music. 

The reason why Sampling alone is impossible is because you would do nothing but copyright infringement if you were to use nothing but sampling and why it’s possible to do with music theory but better if sampling is used is because you bring more thought into the equation. 

In technicality, you really can use only music theory to create songs and I have done it in the past, but honestly, samples make it that much better. 

So the reason why you don’t want to just write and produce songs with just you and your music theory is because you will not take advantage of using technology that the world’s best producers use. 

And there is a saying in music theory that 2 heads are better than one three heads is better and so on and so forth.

So if you have a song that you composed and you include 2 or 3 samples all from different producers who produced those samples into your song, then you are including the thought process of 2 or 3 professional producers who know what they are doing into your song. 

So you have your great head working on the project and you have their amazing heads working on the project. 

But the reason why you can’t just make a song nothing but samples is because for one that’s called copyright infringement and yeah we don’t want to get our social media’s shut down. 

But 2 you won’t be able to customize the sample into something that you want unless you know music theory. 

So you could have a sample, but using a sampler to chop up the sample is what you really want to use in order to avoid copyright infringement and make original music.

It is copyright infringement if you just take a sample and copy and paste it into your song 

Now there are simple sampling techniques to get around this rule but just know that you will still be technically chopping up the sample by doing these things. 

So the first thing that you should know is that There are some samples where the producers made it so that the sole purpose of the sample is to get chopped up in a certain manner, specifically either reversed or shortened or elongated. 

So say for example a riser effect sample. 

A lot of the risers that are on Fruity Loops were originally designed just to get reversed.

and there’s a big music production explanation behind that but I’m not going to get into it.

But just know that those risers were meant to get reversed and you can reverse them and use them in your songs and just as long as you reverse them then it’s not copyright infringement. 

Or elongated. 

Say for example if you have a riser as a sample and you like the way it sounds just like that but it sounds too short for the part that you need for the song, then just figure out how to stretch out samples on your DAW and boom you’ve chopped up the sample. 

Or vice versa if you have a really long sample and you feel as if though it needs to be shorter, figure out how to shorten your sample and that’s it, you’ve chopped up the sample. 

There are other sampling techniques and I’m not going to get into them today but just look up how to use a sampler and they will explain how to chop up samples. 

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