![]() ![]() ![]() Now in 25 seconds I can scroll through my folders and cook up a drum pattern, some rhythms that inspire me, and then I can add a sample or play something on top or get someone to play on top." It was way more fun I didn’t need a sample loop or something from someone else for inspiration now. The first ones were from this company EastWest, and suddenly I had all these one-off hits I could go through till I found the sounds I liked. "I was only 15 but I had mentors that were in their early 20s, and one of them made all his beats on an MPC and he burned me a copy of his drum CDs. But then I watched a Pete Rock interview and he was like, 'I always start with drums first.' At first, I couldn’t imagine it, but it stuck with me, so one day I did start drums first and it changed the whole trajectory of me as a producer. It was always music first, and I got better and better at putting drums to samples I chopped or looped. And when I finally found something that excited me, I’d sample it and then put drums around it. When you first started on the ASR-X Pro, did you approach beats by establishing a tone or pattern first?Ĭole: "At first I would only make a beat when I found a sample I got excited about, so I was going through my mom’s CD piles, from Dire Straits and Steely Dan to Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye. the red machine with just the drum pads." After that, I started trying things on the ASR-X Pro. I just sat there trying to imagine how he made it. On Aaliyah’s third album, the song More Than a Woman was so next-level to me. I couldn’t even fathom it, where you would get started, but I was interested. "But the first time I got interested in how to make something was listening to Timbaland productions, trying to figure out how he did those things. Puff’s crew was sampling all these older songs that my mom would recognize, or my stepfather would call out, so I got into the credits to find out who produced the songs. Walk us through the first time you heard a song and started to think about how it was produced.Ĭole: "I think the first time I started paying attention to production was around 1997: the year Biggie’s second album and Puff Daddy & the Family’s album No Way Out came out.
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