A sample is just a sound. Even when you load up a kick drum that individual sound is a sample. You could sample your own kick or share from another song or even record yourself hitting a snare or kick drum. Depending on the sample it could be your melody or it be another layer of sound like an instrument.
Listen to Kanye spaceship....the sample of the voice is the melody, sure there are other vocal samples, a piano and probably more but the pitched up repeating sample is the backbone of the song. Same with jesus walks now all falls down has a prominent vocal sample but there's enough instrumentation to sustain the song and melody without the vocal sample.
it also depends how much of the sample you are using. 1 second, 6 seconds. and if you are playing it straight through or chopping it up and piecing it together.
listen to blueprint era kanye...this cant be life, never change, heart of the city.
what you could do if you like the dudes that are singing is use their singing and build your own beat behind their singing then just remove their singing and you have your beat..then for the chorus put their singing back in
Is a sample supposed to be the melody of the beat you're making? I got a sample from a song with dudes singing, but I don't know how to use it. Do I make my own melody through Nexus and just add it randomly throughout the song, or do I make it the melody of my song and constantly repeat the lyrics from the sample?
