Beat Juggling and Sampling the "Amen Break"

This is a show and tell of some of the ideas that Nate Harrison brought up about the Amen Break. This focuses on the use of beat-juggling to extend the breakbeat and sampling the break. Once the break is sampled, I speed up and slow down the Amen to give it context as far as modern music. Sound quality might be a little rough due to recording via webcam and not being able to go right from the mixer. Hope you enjoy!

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• 2010
• 03
• 28
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[nohandz1]

to much talking for a routine that's not clean........give me a break you're really trying to explain juggling like it's something new.....

[projectx43]

@nohandz1 Honestly, this was an extra credit assignment for a 100 level music appreciation class that I just tossed together one night. I'm not a hip-hop DJ, nor a pro for that matter (and never claimed to be). What the video demonstrates, to a much younger generation that doesn't know the difference between an Amen break and water dripping from a leaking faucet, is the importance of the Amen to our culture and an example of copyright laws (which we were discussing). Thanks for the cynicism!

[Carlo1Brito]

Nice video. Do you know where I could find individual .wav files of the Amen Break. By individual I mean one .wav for the bass drum, one .wav for the snare...

[projectx43]

@Carlo1Brito Not off the top of my head. I'm fairly sure you could find them if you did a search for drum and bass sample packs or drum loop samples. There was a sample package and ReFill for Reason put out called "Jungle Warfare" that had the Amen in it and in Reason you could rearrange the drum hits by individual sample. But as far as finding them specifically in separate .wav files, I don't know. If I were looking for it, I'd try searching the bit torrent sites. Hope that helps! Good luck!

[projectx43]

Damn, I just realized that the "Beat Diggin' Documentary" had been removed... Sorry for that reference that's no longer there. I watched the damn thing last week...

[skidexa]

Cool video. You talk about everything from early day beat juggling by hip hop djs to sampling in dnb and jungle and other music, good history there

[Carlo1Brito]

@projectx43

I'll try that. Thanks