Produce a music track using samples

Unleash your child's inner music producer as they produce a music track using samples

We have expert advice from 10-year-old music producer Scoopy and the home of new music - BBC Introducing to help you and your child create samples and put together a track.

Here are the instructions for you and your child…

If you like electronic and hip-hop music, you might have heard the term ‘sampling’. It’s a huge part of music production in these genres, and in music in general and in the use of previously recorded audio tracks in a new song or composition.

Depending on what the producer of the new track intended, you can often hear elements of the original sampled track and how it's been used in the new one.

Songs like Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road, Black Eyed Peas’ The Time (Dirty Bit), Jay Z’s Young Forever, Kanye West’s Stronger and Pitbull’s Feel This Moment all sampled tracks that were already well-known.

Meet Scoopy

Scoopy is a 10-year-old music producer who uses samples in his music.

Here he is to tell you a little more about how he puts his tracks together…

To help you on your way, BBC Introducing have created a song with over 40 artists from all over the UK, each of them recording a sample in a set key and tempo from home, and all of these samples can be used to create your very own new song at home.

Let's create some music!

Step one

Download and listen to the samples from the different instruments and artists on the BBC Introducing page.

There, you’ll also find more information as to where and when you can use your final track after you’ve created it.

Step two

Decide on the tracks or samples you’d like to use.

You might want to think about ways that you can add to these - either through singing a different melody over the samples, adding different sounds that you can find in your home, or simply putting them in a different order to mix things up!

Step three

Now it's time to put your samples into a new song or track!

There's a range of free recording and music production software readily available on the internet. They might also come with devices including smartphones, tablets and computers.

But, you don't need this software, you can simply get together as a family in the front room and put on a little performance playing through the new song with the sample playing in the background.

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