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MiDDLeMaN07 · 28th December 2006

OK so Im brand new to all this and have been experimenting different ways of making beats. Just wanted to ask what everyone's typical range of length for a sample was?

I use Cool Edit Pro 2, which I know is ancient but its what I've been getting used to. Now, from what I've read, the typical east coast hip hop tempo is between 90-120 bpm, which equals to spacing the hi-hats between .500 (90bpm) and .666(120 bpm) apart, right? Well, I went into some files my friend who has been producing for a while had and it seemed he had his hihats spaced about .350 apart, which makes the tempo around 170 something bpms... All very confusing but trying to get it figured out. So I guess it's a 2 part question just asking about basics of tempo and sampling length. Thanks guys!

28th December 2006	#1
MiDDLeMaN07 Gear interested Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8 Thread Starter	Typical length of a hip hop sample OK so Im brand new to all this and have been experimenting different ways of making beats. Just wanted to ask what everyone's typical range of length for a sample was? I use Cool Edit Pro 2, which I know is ancient but its what I've been getting used to. Now, from what I've read, the typical east coast hip hop tempo is between 90-120 bpm, which equals to spacing the hi-hats between .500 (90bpm) and .666(120 bpm) apart, right? Well, I went into some files my friend who has been producing for a while had and it seemed he had his hihats spaced about .350 apart, which makes the tempo around 170 something bpms... All very confusing but trying to get it figured out. So I guess it's a 2 part question just asking about basics of tempo and sampling length. Thanks guys!