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also notice how low premier's hihats are in his mix compared to how loud they are in the sample

a big thing that alot of people mess up with is they got them loud ass hihats. its works in some beats. if you're doing a southern banger type beat they are cool turned up moving quick, but boom bap east coast shit, they're just there to keep the kicks boomin and the snares bappin. they just hold it together. they aren't there to be the main attraction.

now with that same beat, premier has a phrase you can timestretch basically, the , duh duduh duhduh duh or whatever, but then he has that one shot, piano roll thing. thats one sound basically he sampled. the quick three piano keys or whatever. the BRRRIING or whatever haha.

im not gonna lie, it was hard for me to do any type of stab/one shot type chops in FL. i know a ton of people who can, i just couldn't transfer it from my brain to the program. since getting the mpc, its stupid easy for me. literally every beat i begin to make now sounds like some knockoff wannabe premier stuff lol. and its not even the pads as much as how the machine can auto chop stuff. i think FL's slicer is similair. i just never messed with it and i don't have FL anymore

but yea man its all a science. just gotta play around with arrangements, i'd just recommend laying some drums first, if you wanna go the one shot/sample stab route. that way you can figure out where to put it by playing along with the drums

so its like the opposite of time stretching something long and playing along with the sample, you are getting the sample to play along with you.