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Old 9th February 2010   #11
wreckingstuff
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Have search on youtube for 'Boondoc/boonie mayfield' . Doc quite often skips the part where he actually breaks the samples up, but his clips will give you a good idea of how to take a record and manipulate it into something new.

Tuning samples is something quite a lot of people struggle with, you might try using a tuning plug in in your daw, or run the signal through a hardware tuner.
Starting out I would recommend working with 'clean' material, where only one or two instruments are playing, you might find it easier to blend stuff from different sources.

Listen to Pete Rock, Madlib, RZA, Prince Paul etc. for a masterclass in sample timing/tuning/variation.

Good luck to you man.
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