Questlove on J Dilla's sampling techniques

Questlove on J Dilla's sampling techniques | Red Bull Music Academy

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Questlove, drummer and co-founder of The Roots, reflects on the genius of J Dilla’s sampling, notably his use of Roy Ayers’ Ain't Got Time for Black Star’s Little Brother.
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@flavwhite 7 жыл бұрын

He's right, Dilla made his samples sound like loops when 99% of them were chopped to death.

@nopenope7700 5 жыл бұрын

What the hell does chopped to death mean? Anybody with a good sense of rhythm can do that...

@JordanWBrace 5 жыл бұрын

How did he even do it? Imagine how amazing and insightful it would've been watching Dilla chop records up!

@elismith8356 5 жыл бұрын

@@nopenope7700 u try doing this by hand with no computer no protools and remember u have 2 find every bit where there is no vocals. Just on uh MPC bro of course its possible but can u do it and make it sound as good as Dilla made it sound. I agree with quest I would of thought it was uh actual loop but it was constructed and each section put together.

@elismith8356 5 жыл бұрын

@@nopenope7700 do u even make beats what does chopping uh record have 2 do with rhythm. If u don't know what chopped to death means you my friend are just ignorant 2 sampling records on drum machines or any other music format. Would u like me to breakdown the term of chopping uh record ? I'm also sure if u watch this whole questlove lecture u will find your simple answer.I mean u could even watch the Iggy Pop lecture and learn something.

@nopenope7700 5 жыл бұрын

The ONLY reason why this a thing... is because it was New and it gave robot drummers like Quest space to be free... But wasn't even Dilla... It was D'Angelo.

@pcastalano32 5 жыл бұрын

I Understand where he coming from, me & Dilla went to school together back in late late 80"s early 90"S we had a crew called D.D.P . Double Dose Possie in High school, Benjamin O. Davis Aerospace Highschool On the east side of Detroit ( I remember he sampled a, Donald Bird classic for the talent show we were in .... I took the L.P from my Uncle Chuck Record collection ... & That's how it all started , back then he went by the name (Silk )

@onestar8753 4 жыл бұрын

paris castalano yo that sounds so dope Man! Could we talk? Email me at Johndoeremix@gmail.com

@tyyer 3 жыл бұрын

thats an incredible story man, its cool to hear about how talented these guys were even in their youth

@Skinwalker110 3 жыл бұрын

His brother Bobo Lamb be posting all types of great storys on dilla to thank you for this one brother🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩

@d-nyl6116 3 жыл бұрын

Peace

@sixthSigmaSnowball 8 жыл бұрын

Solving a 10,000 piece puzzle by throwing it in the air and having it land completed on a table. "Talent hits targets others can't hit. Genius hit targets others can't even see."

@toddmaek5436 6 жыл бұрын

talent hits targets ortbers cant, genius hits targets others cant see?????????? where is this from??? if YOU came up with that yourself then BRA fucking VO!!!!!!! that is a great quote.

@kunivin999 5 жыл бұрын

That's from a great philosopher named Schopenhauer. Peace

@freein2339 5 жыл бұрын

Musicians create music others can't hear....people who sample try to ride the jock of real musicians....

@jackrock121 3 жыл бұрын

@@freein2339 You really are miserable

@freein2339 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackrock121 No ...I merely state facts...get over it..

@r.s.marcus3043 4 жыл бұрын

He was so low-key about his creations that I didn't even realize that he made my favorite loops until he died. Every other great in hip hop has him as the penultimate talent in producer history.

@danwillreview 2 жыл бұрын

You mean the ultimate?

@alexvasquez537 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@codymcginnis7837 Жыл бұрын

penultimate means second greatest playa

@jwizdum2103 3 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, just to think of chopping a beat like "Don't Cry" that way he did, it's almost alien like, it's truly a high level use of the brain to chop shit the way he did, Dilla was a genius.

@MrFonte-ug1gm 10 жыл бұрын

"Little Brother" ONE OF MY ALLLLL TIME FAVS

@jungle-wav1322 8 жыл бұрын

5. MF Doom 4. Ye 3. Nujabes 2. Dilla 1. Pete Rock

@elijahhill6602 4 жыл бұрын

Jungle -Wav All caps when you spell #5’s name.

@NateDogg8870 3 жыл бұрын

Jungle -Wav J Dilla is deffo number 1

@alonzox5420 3 жыл бұрын

@@elijahhill6602 RIP MF DOOM & J. Dilla

@tylergrace5137 3 жыл бұрын

@@alonzox5420 1. Pete Rock 2. Dilla 3. Nujabes 4. DOOM 5. Madlib (honestly tied with DOOM in production, but DOOM gets extra points for MCing like a god too)

@lovedichoreo1529 7 жыл бұрын

He made it sound fluid. He made it sound like an actual loop (although he crafted it piece by piece seamlessly)

@mjsburneraccount5591 8 ай бұрын

I’ve tried to recreate the loop many times myself. No matter how many times I do it, it never sounds as fluid as how Dilla chopped it. It’s something about the way he did it we’re every snippet of the sample is played perfectly in succession and precisely matches the tempo. And this was done with older technology. He truly was one of the greatest geniuses to ever grace the boards

@DCeeMusik 10 жыл бұрын

Amazing! That's incredible how he sampled end parts and mixed parts with no vocals and made a song that sounded fluid. By Hand! On a MPC 3000. Remember, 3000s did not have waveforms nor a ton of sample time. Dilla made it work and made a banger out of it. Thanks, Brother Quest, for telling us this Dilla gem!

@timsohn7057 10 жыл бұрын

nobs and arrows lol. I can see how he would have done it, but it is SOOOO cumbersome on the MP vs programs these days. I still use the MPC, but usually after I edit everything. I use it only really for nostalgia. Around mid 2000s, my MPC started to get outpaced by some really good programs out now days. But I still love the MPC swings and workflow when it comes to straight up sampling records.

@jaimerobinson5246 10 жыл бұрын

Tim Sohn keep the hardware alive and you sustain a sound that 80-90% of producers have escaped

@timsohn7057 9 жыл бұрын

LMAO @ MS-DOS. ver 5.00+ was the truth tho.

@timsohn7057 9 жыл бұрын

Jaime Robinson Will do bro. I used to make so much beats and even sell em quite a bit. I went back to school later in life for health care and haven't been able to as much. Miss it alot. I plan to upload alot of my stuff on youtube. Im so old...those beats were pre youtube hahaha.

@timsohn7057 9 жыл бұрын

Jaime Robinson I have 2-3 beats only on my acct "eladbrit" but even those are quite old.

@therouxburroughs8426 8 жыл бұрын

If u notice when he plays the sample he blinks everytime there is no vocals like he's remember it each time he closes on rhythm with his idea of the actual beat mapped out in his head. not only was Jay Dee a genius with Rhythm so is Questlove. He's like a father figure to me at this point vicariously through his internet wisdom and my love of his drumming and producing and DJ'ing. rock on quest, RIP Dee...

@iii2308 6 жыл бұрын

Dilla issa God to me😩😩

@alvarezgamers 6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. quest is a manic at drumming and all things music. Such an inspiration dude.

@bobjamaica9045 2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain what you meant by that? Because I see him blinking randomly even during vocals unless I’m missing something here

@frankystrings Жыл бұрын

@@bobjamaica9045 hea full of ishit but the end of his message was his point I think

@MrO_thevoice Ай бұрын

Nah he was just blinking

@kri8beats778 4 жыл бұрын

Dilla too clean. There's a reason all other producers respect him more than anyone else ever.... Long live DILLA!

@LoneStarVII 10 жыл бұрын

As someone who remixed his Bye/So Far To Go, I can tell he did the same thing with those songs. He got little snippets and combined them into one vocal-less loop.

@gjbap 10 жыл бұрын

Miss you Dilla....

@mitchellwaubano156 9 жыл бұрын

lmao q is straight up chillin on that couch

@nastynate838 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@JustGod7 9 жыл бұрын

that is some difficult to almost impossible shit to do by chopping that by hand. He took out the pieces that Roy Ayers didn't speak on and made a beat. Even the part where Roy Ayers says "Now Listen" he added that part in. I seen post where people tried to recreate it and it sounds shitty. Dilla is in my top 5 greatest producers.

@lex.cordis 9 жыл бұрын

It's incredible, man. You can't hear any seams in it from the chops. I can't imagine the type of painstaking work it would take to get that so perfect. Like Quest said, it just sounds like a sampled loop!

@trevorjones5412 9 жыл бұрын

1. Dilla 2. Kanye 3. Pharell 4 & so on. who cares

@moesephxd91 9 жыл бұрын

Trevor Jones uh madlib? MADLIB?

@lex.cordis 9 жыл бұрын

moesephxd91 Shit, I was surprised to not at least see Pete Rock and/or Premier. But to each their own.

@moesephxd91 9 жыл бұрын

word, i love pete rock and dj premier but premier does not appeal to me as much as the other guys :/ too raw for my soul jazz funk ears

@jazzg4570 4 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how much he was able to use with just the sample. Any other producer would still felt the need to add some booming kick or somethin extra but Dilla was able to get everything he needed out of that Roy Ayers song alone

@Junior13113 6 жыл бұрын

Is it fair to say that J Dilla is a music genius? I think that's a fair assessment.

@nweeezy 4 жыл бұрын

i've always thought this; no one understood and used texture like Dilla did.

@lewistyler462 8 ай бұрын

No controversy there

@theafrospacecowboy 7 жыл бұрын

1:01 And accidentally, Questlove did that little loop at the outro of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth's "In The House"... lol

@vernlarge2908 6 жыл бұрын

Hugo Arruda dos Santos Showbiz used that 1st on an interlude on the Runaway Slaves album, and his was the best!

@JAYLIB03 10 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing this sample in Pete rocks & CLs 'The main ingrediant." I'm a big Dilla fan and I thought he looped the sample. It's interesting hearing questlove explain how dilla chopped up the sample so good it sounded like a loop.

@mrgroosumthasandman8046 8 жыл бұрын

Well explained Q! You got die hard instrument/band players saying "Oh any body can make anything sound good by JUST PRESSING BUTTONS"!!!! People that stay in there own box just don't understand, IT'S LIKE SOLVING A 10,000 PIECE PUZZLE IN RECORD TIME!!!!

@tupd 5 жыл бұрын

Mrgroosum ThaSandman i mean, with all the software now damn near anybody can make something sound good by just pressing buttons. Like Quest said, Dilla was doing his thing before the advent of all the plugins etc. His craft was a digital analog mix.

@James-pb8xu 5 жыл бұрын

Anything can sound or look good at first glance. the problem is keeping it fresh. Which software can't do for you.

@PeteS_1994 5 жыл бұрын

@@James-pb8xu Exactly or giving the song some soul or expression still takes skill.

@Bootstrap193 10 жыл бұрын

2:00 someone make a gif

@lovedichoreo1529 7 жыл бұрын

"Its the equivalent of someone solving a 10,000 piece puzzle in record time"

@postmodernmusicalsophist2503 6 жыл бұрын

Too many people are afraid to put new guys in their lists. Cause i swear Terrace Martin deserves to be in a top 10

@SebCrateDigger 10 жыл бұрын

J Dilla is the best human being who had brought a new vision of hip hop. I'm proud to listen his sounds again. Thanks J Dilla and rest in peace.

@lw3257 10 жыл бұрын

Dilla's skills and the way he did things will forever be unmatched....there are alot of GREAT producers but no one will reach dilla.

@joshuacoughlin4773 Жыл бұрын

Madlib exists

@kosuzu_ Жыл бұрын

@@joshuacoughlin4773 Madlib is definitely a top 5 producer. He has a really good ear for samples, thats why hes the “Loot Digga”. But when it comes to chops and drums Dilla is uncontested. Even Madlib said it himself, “He’s king of the beats to me.”

@KevDNYC1 10 жыл бұрын

Dilla had such an influence on my different hobbies. Some of my most awesome days was playing an MMO online like WoW or Planetside back in the day and throwing on a 2 hour mixtape of his. Kind of like a soundtrack for my avatars running around the games. haha Dilla is easily in my top 5 favorite producers of all time.

@78proto 5 жыл бұрын

Dilla was truly amazing. I always try to recreate his most difficult loops. This is on my bucket list, and Still Shining....if I can only find the source...

@marcusiralieus 5 жыл бұрын

J dilla actually changed the way I viewed music 🎵 inspirational man miss u ❤️💕

@xinsectoxurbanox 7 жыл бұрын

this video makes me incredibly sad/happy at the same time.. coming from a place where I discovered J Dilla during his later years... it's crazy to have his style broken down.

@soufienkhalfaoui7593 3 жыл бұрын

All my respect to Dilla and Questo but the way the MPC chops the samples is what makes it sounding so natural.

@Jeannek4493 3 жыл бұрын

I love how he talks about how he made it sound “normal”, freakin amazing

@rmdavis85 9 ай бұрын

Like Water For Chocolate is one of my all time favorite hip-hop album, which was birth from that studio in that era

@davidk8055 10 жыл бұрын

Omg thats one of my all time fave tracks Little brother by (Yassin Bey) Mos & kweli. Glad to know where it was sampled from and how. Long Live DILLA DILLA DILLA 4EVA!

@kareems3187 Жыл бұрын

My Idol since 96 one of the very first Dilla beats I ever heard was "The Rhyme" Remix by Keith Murray. Once I heard that I knew this Brother was going to be different. I'm grateful I got to see him live with Madlib and MF DOOM. When Jaylin was on Tour with DOOM. His creativity was on another level thank you for your contribution to Hip Hop Dilla. May you and DOOM both rest in Peace

@tomzirp4457 3 жыл бұрын

Questlove is definitely in the house, such a G and encyclopedia of good music

@bv6377 2 жыл бұрын

questlove youre not in the house

@alvarezgamers 6 жыл бұрын

As someone who loves to sample. That shit he did is hardddddd. Hard because it’s easy to make it sound choppy as hell when you only grab lil Drum piece like that. 🙏rip J

@RBMA 10 жыл бұрын

Questlove breaks down J Dilla's sample sorcery... Watch the full lecture - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6moid10ypiyYY0.html - for a deep dive on drumming, Dilla and D’Angelo.

@OURshow 10 жыл бұрын

DILLA DILLA DILLA BEATS BEATS BEATS.... let's not forget that another amazing producer was born on the same day on the other side of the planet... Nujabes!

@MsBeatJunkie 10 жыл бұрын

OUR show Yes he was amazing, I adore his music. His jazzy mellow sample techniques

@OURshow 10 жыл бұрын

RyNea Soul definitely. We try to keep both their legacies going on our radio show.

@MsBeatJunkie 10 жыл бұрын

That's awesome, and I'm glad that you do!

@carloscamino6385 9 жыл бұрын

@digaholicrecords8620 10 жыл бұрын

I know what Quest mean by Dilla's skill. I first the Roy Ayers sample from Pete Rock & CL Smooth record and did a India Aire remix from that same loop. i went and seen the "Hurricane" movie then went to record store and listen to BlackStarr song and tried to chop that sample cause i was blown away by the way Dilla chop it. R.I.P Dilla.

@kenc5199 2 жыл бұрын

I just want someone that really knows to inform all these people trying to emulate his sound that he fought the sequencer every step. he made it how he heard it. his original sound was him not adding or messing with swing, but removing the quantize and keeping it how he hit the keys.

@jasondrew6157 2 жыл бұрын

"Solving a 10,000 piece puzzle in record time" isn't really a good comparison. It isn't impressive because of the speed in which the result was achieved, it's impressive because Dilla breaks something down and recreates it into something completely different that is still coherent. It's more like taking a 10,000 piece puzzle of a horse and rearranging it into the Mona Lisa.

@apostle.i 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree with your statement more but I get what quest love meant . Awesome example though

@raybrooks1555 3 жыл бұрын

he always used great soul music too....Roy Ayers, Stevie Wonder, the list goes on and on......

@Warhero1171 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, Questlove's in the house. . .

@elohkayee 3 жыл бұрын

This is perhaps my most favorite Dilla beat, so thankful to see Questlove describe it's creation! Dilla forever!!

@rachels7795 2 жыл бұрын

What’s it called?

@elohkayee 2 жыл бұрын

@@rachels7795 Little Brother

@rachels7795 2 жыл бұрын

@@elohkayee thank you:)

@LawrinMaxwellsmpc500 10 жыл бұрын

I also chop my samples like that, I chop in quarter notes, just like how he demonstrates, one chop for every beat in the sample. It makes for a very neat loop because you have more control over the chop placement. Classic chopping technique for MPC users.

@ShionHyrezUK 9 жыл бұрын

Ye the end result is awesome! I think a 10,000 piece puzzle is over stated but J Dilla is like Premier he can take something and turn it on its head. J Dilla, Premo, Pete Rock, 9th Wonder are the my best of all time so far. Mine at least!

@AcidSh33tz 9 жыл бұрын

you just dont understand how much of a perfectionest dilla was, the man had a crazy OCD when it came to records

@kurtfromMichigan 4 жыл бұрын

Excellence. No one has ever surpassed Dillas skill imo when you take in everything. All the way back to his pause and play beats on cassette tapes before he met amp fiddler.

@seboufdu59 10 жыл бұрын

Trully amazing, RIP Forever Dilla.

@VerbaDeLycKRecords 2 жыл бұрын

Quest is a genius id love to sit down and talk to him about stuff like this

@kolbeinngauti3971 2 жыл бұрын

You can just listen to Questlove Supreme , that's basically what that is :)

@SkilledNature 10 жыл бұрын

This was LIGHT to dilla! Shiiiiit Dont Cry still makes me say omg 😯

@sparbarz1 3 жыл бұрын

The way he chopped that shit up....CRAZY!!

@jammawun 10 жыл бұрын

He's one hell of a teacher!

@onelastdisco1518 6 жыл бұрын

Hey! Questlove’s in the house!

@comptonsboi33 10 жыл бұрын

RIP & Happy Born Day Big Homie

@JOESTEF20 9 жыл бұрын

Dr Dre, Q Tip, DJ Quik, Kanye West, J Dilla... not in that order but those are my favorites

@ericakamrkrump 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for including kanye . People don't understand how amazing of a producer he is . Top 3 with Dilla and Pete Rock

@JOESTEF20 9 жыл бұрын

Lol truth man... He has such great taste in the way he samples.

@mdptg1990 4 жыл бұрын

@@JOESTEF20 He is the best at making soul music 100% but people don't give him props due to his personality, even though most of the best producers like himself and Madlib are weird as fuck. It's just that Kanye was in the spotlight

@MVP_MAGAZINE 10 жыл бұрын

I remember shaking Dallas hand just before he died....it was an honour

@leibweiss 5 жыл бұрын

You DJ the party for us in Camden New Jersey before you got signed to a record label

@kapkix 2 жыл бұрын

MISS YOU DILLA. RIP!

@christrucker4882 7 жыл бұрын

Damn that's crazy 🔥

@vernlarge2908 6 жыл бұрын

Listen to Showbiz & A.G.'s 1st album called Runaway Slave and there is an interlude where Show made a beat out of THE SAME Roy Ayers song, he chopped it up and took the vocals out. 1st one to use it and KILLED it! THAT ALBUM CAME OUT IN 1992!

@asosound 10 жыл бұрын

yeah thats dilla

@dereckvon 10 жыл бұрын

Badass Questlove.

@omniosi 10 жыл бұрын

love. "micro-chops"!

@FreshForReal 10 жыл бұрын

2:10 His facial expression explains it all. True greatness can't be explained just felt and appreciated. ?uestLove #dilladay #dilladillabeatsbeats

@cherneta8065 8 жыл бұрын

1. Dilla 2. Madlib 3. Pharelle 4. Timbo 5. 9th wonder 6. Kanye 7. Pete Rock 8. Primo 9. Dr Dre 10.Organize Noize

@xJoBoy 8 жыл бұрын

Good list. But I think just mentioning Pharrell is pretty disrespectful to the genius that his Chad Hugo.

@TheGreenwood03 8 жыл бұрын

+saucy lastname what's the point of those lists ?

@Drizzyfor6 8 жыл бұрын

+saucy lastname 1.Dilla2.Premo3.Organizd Noize4.Dre5.Kanye6.Large Professor7.Pete Rock8.9th Wonder9.Timbo10.Madlib11.Neptunes12.Scott Storch13.Hi-Tek14.Will IAM

@GeminiEye1314 8 жыл бұрын

+saucy lastname Can't forget Apollo Brown

@cherneta8065 8 жыл бұрын

GeminiEye1 He's aight not in all time great list.

@TooManyBoxes 9 жыл бұрын

Wooooo!

@sperg0101 9 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. James Yancey

@dwreck0rds 7 жыл бұрын

so rad

@shuaduah 10 жыл бұрын

Roy...Pete...James... Get it.

@MrBmick79 4 жыл бұрын

mind blown

@vmreel 5 жыл бұрын

Wooooo Woooooo

@dollardv 6 жыл бұрын

Well said my brother .

@estlhm805 5 жыл бұрын

Life stories of greatness unknown

@86Sentra 3 жыл бұрын

insane

@tdrum21 10 жыл бұрын

dope sample

@DetroitFettyghost 2 жыл бұрын

Questlove is ALSO a god on the chop. RIP DILLA Detroit loves you and so does the whole 🌎

@brekbeatattack7038 3 жыл бұрын

questlove's in da house

@bridgewater420 4 жыл бұрын

J DILLA SAVED MY LIFE

@GlitterFistsFish 4 жыл бұрын

Dilla changed my life

@kammikeisari5195 2 жыл бұрын

The equivelant of breaking down a mural and building a mosaic of the pieces.

@bernardbenjamin5607 5 жыл бұрын

JDILLA FOREVER

@10alexcr 10 жыл бұрын

Anyone know the 2 tracks being played??

@ItsNNJA 6 жыл бұрын

rip to the greatest of all time 🙏🏽✨

@walterclark9821 5 жыл бұрын

J dilla is a legend.

@tollertoller4life 10 жыл бұрын

Wow is all I could say..

@lugaro4448 3 жыл бұрын

Even now with fl and pro tools there’s clicking sometimes. He made that shit sound so smooth oh my god

@jacksonvalad8012 5 жыл бұрын

what song did dilla make out of this sample?

@TwangBeats 8 жыл бұрын

R.I.P J Dilla

@kincamell2 10 жыл бұрын

LOVE

@carolmcnulty5017 6 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the song he's talking about

@GrayJ47 5 жыл бұрын

What song is that? It sounds like black star

@bpjunkiezzz8279 6 жыл бұрын

Hey! Questlove's in the house!

@mrlevinielsen 4 жыл бұрын

*laughter*

@zestb114 8 жыл бұрын

hold up, that is amazing!!, dang!

@LifeGotIt 6 жыл бұрын

dilla is the G.O.A.T. of sampling in hip hop!

@joshuamartinpryce8424 2 жыл бұрын

Techniques are individual. They come from learned experience. Spirituality is an essence of techniques because the spiritually strong have adapted a mindset of spiritual technique.