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Making Music with Samples: Tips, Techniques, and 600+ Ready-to-Use Samples (w/CDS).(Book Review)
Making Music with Samples. Tips, Techniques, & 600+ Ready-to-Use Samples (w/CDS), by Daniel Duffell. Backbeat Books (600 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94107), 2005. 208 pp. $39.95.
In the introduction, Daniel Duffell explains that sampling has influenced popular music more than any other technique during the past 20 years. He says the book is not intended to offer advice about what equipment to buy or to replace the operation manual, but is concerned with helping one create an innovative, exciting and personal sound palate using a sampler.
Duffell suggests that chapters can be skipped or read out of order. He says that while one does not have to be a skilled performer, it helps to have a good sense of rhythm and the ability to know if one's creation possesses the magical element of musicality.
The most obvious uses of sampling came in the form of dance music in the 1990s, but it is used in many genres of popular music. The author suggests it would be rare to find many recordings of recent years, that did not contain some form of sampling.
The organization is logical, even to a reader not knowledgeable about sampling. The first chapter covers basics of musical building blocks and how samplers work. The second ...
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