Sound in "Drop it Like It's Hot" by pharrell

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I was listening on the radio this morning. If you listen carefully there's a sound that he pans left and right, sounds like a 'shhhhhhh'. I thought it sounded familiar and I think it's a skateboard wheel being spun. You know that sound that the bearings make as they spin around the truck.

I may be totally wrong and it could be a sound on some keyboard but that's what it sounded like to me. It seems like something he'd do, being a skater and all.

At least if I'm wrong you know what sound I'll be miking up and sampling tonight.

'yea that sample is a spitfire polyurethane with abec 6's, on a Grind King'
 
not to be an ass bu tthat sounds like nothing to the likes of a skatebord (comming from an retired skateborder lol) is more like a spraycan kinda sound, u can search the net for sound fx(free by the way) i cant remember the site adds but theres lots out their just search for it. hope this helps.
 
yeh its a cabasa i heard that exact sound in a percussion refill for reason
 
JimbaFrosty said:
not to be an ass bu tthat sounds like nothing to the likes of a skatebord (comming from an retired skateborder lol) is more like a spraycan kinda sound, u can search the net for sound fx(free by the way) i cant remember the site adds but theres lots out their just search for it. hope this helps.
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Yea, it could be a spraycan too. I think it sounded like a wheel, like a small, hard wheel if you turn the board upside down and just spin it fast.
 
Its obviously meant to be a spray can emulation, and easily could be just a sound from a synth patch.

On the Fantom X which i have there is a sound very similar to that on one of the rythm set's percussion.
StudioX Kit1, and the percussion sound is called DigiSpectrum. If you take some attack off to get it to sound like its coming out of a can, and pitch it up probably 1 octave more than it is, it sounds alot like the spray can from Drop it like its hot.

i reckon its just percussion!
 
Actually don't pitch it up, just turn up the resonance, i just tried it now.

Right, Documentary on Vh1 regarding Freddie Mercury. See ya in abit!
 
who cares bout that?!!!!!!!!!! i wanna know what chords and chord progression they used for that synth leading into the chorus.... THATS HOT!!!
 
I am pretty sure that is is a spray can. And In my opoion that track, drop it like it's hot, is **** production. The sounds are very empty and sound like an amature made it. There is no bassline and it has no groove. Very simple and reptitve. Yet for some reason many people like it, so I guess I am missing something.
 
I HAVE TO AGREE WITH THAT^^^

tha only thing good about that beat was tha chords (should have kept them in tha chorus) and the drums that sound good with that part (i believe they are TOMS)

someone know what chords they are??!?!?
 
Those chords where good, but that doesn't make that whole track hot IMO.

If you are gonna make hip hop beats you gotta spend time in the produceing. And one would thinik a bassline in this type of music is a must pretty much always.

Hip Hop is kinda like club music, (however Snoop is more rapish a times) I say this track is on the more clubish side. The bassline is the bottom end that makes that lower chakra want to wiggle.

I also think more hip hop should take in other influnces. Jazz and hip hop sounds like it could go together really well, odd chords and complex progression could be massivly sick. Electronic dance music has complex programing that hip hop producers should consider. It seems as if the beats I am hearing in hip hop are stay completly the same. A change would be nice.

Sorry off topic...

Anyway, I don't know what those chords are, 6,4,5,5,3? But that's pretty much a guess. Anybody with abosulte pitch can probably figure the chords.
 
I think a lot of the rap beats are starting, or already have come full circle.

Its back to the basics, simple drum programming, simple loops, simple beats. Like what it was back in the day.

It progressed from that to more, and more complex, and at times not even loops really (in the 90s).

I think we will see a surge of old skool feel type tracks in the future, or more of them.
 
People, please don't post when you don't know the answer. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Its white noise. Not a spray can, not skate board wheels but WHITE NOISE. Learn the theory, then post.
 
you are wrong.

it's hella a spray can. They evem said that's what they sampled.
 
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