From Chop to Song: Soul Sampling & Swing

$17

From Chop to Song: The Soul Sampling, Unquantized Swing & Arrangement Playbook for MPC Sample

Turn a chopped soul record into a finished song on the Akai MPC Sample — no computer, no DAW. Just swing, chops, and arrangement, done on the machine alone.

Built from four of my MPC lessons — Stop Making Stiff Beats, the KanYe soul chop tutorial, the Rick Rubin arrangement trick, and Trust Your Ears — this is a complete Akai MPC Sample workflow: beat making, sampling and chopping soul records, swing and groove, arrangement and song structure, mixing inside the machine, and exporting a finished song.

Inside:

Swing — the feel that makes a loop breathe

Chops — KanYe-style soul sampling, flip only what you can flip

Arrangement — the Rick Rubin subtractive ladder, from fullest section to finished song

Trust Your Ears — the producer's finish

Appendix — Shift+Pad matrix, pad-colour decoder, troubleshooting index, printable soul-session worksheet, and a personal arrangement cheat sheet

26 pages, 8 diagrams, worksheet included. For the Akai MPC Sample in standalone mode.

From Chop to Song: Soul Sampling & Swing

$17

From Chop to Song: The Soul Sampling, Unquantized Swing & Arrangement Playbook for MPC Sample

Turn a chopped soul record into a finished song on the Akai MPC Sample — no computer, no DAW. Just swing, chops, and arrangement, done on the machine alone.

Inside:

Swing — the feel that makes a loop breathe

Chops — KanYe-style soul sampling, flip only what you can flip

Arrangement — the Rick Rubin subtractive ladder, from fullest section to finished song

Trust Your Ears — the producer's finish

Appendix — Shift+Pad matrix, pad-colour decoder, troubleshooting index, printable soul-session worksheet, and a personal arrangement cheat sheet

26 pages, 8 diagrams, worksheet included. For the Akai MPC Sample in standalone mode.