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How Music Sampling Works

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The Melatron Sampler

The first sampler, if you want to go back in time a bit, um, was the melatron. Metallica is one. Guns N' Roses on their song Civil War. And even before that, people would take magnetic tapes, like real, real tapes and literally cut and splice them to create their own samples.

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