Drum samples: Where to start?

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Beathoven

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OK, since I started 'instrumentalizing' two years ago, I always used the drums that were coming with the soft I was using... Now, I guess that most instrumentals containing a sampled melody use sampled drums too makin' the instrumental sound more 'real'.

My question is the following: Could someone direct me where the drum samples are? What would be the styles I should be lookin' for?

Peace,
Beathoven
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beathoven - I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but alot of people, including me, use drum samples that Tom Hicks put up. you can find them here:

http://www.artistcollaboration.com/samples/tomhicks/drum%20samples/

These are all acoustic drum sounds, but there is a wide variety of stuff to work with. Again, most people use these for rock/pop/folk whatever, so I don't know if it is directly related to hip-hop, but I've listened to a couple of your songs and I think they would fit.

Hope this helps,
Pete
 
Ok - First off thanks for the link, I downloaded all the drum kits.

Next - I will explain myself better... I know that , mostly east coast cats, like to samples drums from 60's, 70's and 80's songs. But I was wondering which styles of music (Blues, Funk, Soul, etc...) would be the most usable to find drum samples.

Yall understand now?

Peace,
Beathoven
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Ahhh- my bad. Thought I would take a shot at it since no one else answered. I see you aren't looking for drum samples, but rather sampled drum beats. I can't help you there.

Excuse my ignorance, but I have always wondered, how do you sample a drum beat (or anything else) out of a song anyway? I don't see how you isolate it from the other instruments? Do you just use some eq, etc. to squash everything else?

Pete
 
Actually it's almost impossible... When we sample a drum beat of a song, we try to find a place in the song where the drum plays alone or with one other instrument. If there's an instrument playing while playing the drum beat, it is possible to EQ it in a way we won't hear or almost not hear the other instrument. That's it.

Peace,
Beathoven
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That is correct but... You might not want to eq that out because that sound will give the snare kik whatever a unique sound....

My Library which I call
Rat drums
was started about 8 years ago.....

Got shit I sampled from hip hop , breakbeat nd old jazz records...
Pick up some sounds from different studios I worked in...
From fellow beat makers
From drum machines.....

Whatever -- They all hold a special ambience kidco....
Raticus
 
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