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QLS Classic: Bob Power

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How to Apply Your Classical and Jazz Experience to Hip Hop Projects

Amir, in a lot of hip hop, there's this intentional clashing going on. And then there's this whole idea of tuning the samples so that they make more musical sense. I guess I'm asking if you apply that stuff to the world of sampling. There was no direct line. There wasn't any straight lines. But of course, yeah. Because they were using a lot of jazz samples. Yeah, I mean it's musical sensibility,. Which is why the drums are always so loud.

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