First off, the simplest way to find good samples is, well, listen to music. Sounds easy right? that's because it is. You gotta search & search & keep searching for new & different sounds. That means, stop sampling James Brown. Stop sampling The Temptations. Stop sampling the same 5 David Axelrod songs. Stop. sampling. the same. shit. that every other. fucking producer. samples. If you sample what everyone else samples, then it doesn't really make you a producer now does it? Now, I'm not saying don't sample a song if its been sampled before. You can flip any song by just chopping loops. I'm talking, don't take the same 4 seconds from "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos & act like the Fugees didn't sample it 18-19 years ago. Come on now. Look for new sounds everywhere. If you're in a fucking department store & hear a smooth jazz song over the loudspeakers while ya ma is fiddling her yams then pull out that song identifier app, whatever the hell it's called. Anyways, moving on.
The internet is literally your playground to find all kinds of music. But, sometimes you can only find things on vinyl, and vice versa. Even madlib has been using the internet recently to find samples he couldn't find on vinyl. Use both sources. Go crate digging at a record store if you have one. Go e-digging on the internet. search for music blogs by the genre you're looking for. You can sample anything, but some of the best genres to start with are soul, soundtrack music, easy listening, and jazz. Don't forget that international jazz, soul, easy listening, and soundtrack music exists too. Europe didn't just create orchestral music. dipshit.
Also, stop looking up YouTube videos on how to make beats. That shit wont help you a damn bit. You're better off fucking with it for 2 hours & learning a couple things instead of watching a 5 minute video and getting confused even more. No one EVER fucking said making music would be easy. You just inferred that because your neighbor down the street has skills & has made a couple beats. "But hey, if he can do It I can too!". If you don't even have the dedication to sit at a computer for four hours and look for samples to make a beat instead of taking the lazy way out, maybe you should reassess what you're spending time on. No one else can teach you how to be good at something, it takes time & dedication to build up hard work into experience, which therefore helps you fix your mistakes & builds toward your craft. What do you think calluses symbolize? - CS
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