Jeff Hanneman Quotes

I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear in our songs work as submelodies and countermelodies, and everything has to fit.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

I feel like, with drum programming, the way I used to do it, I'd think of how somebody would play these drum patterns and then try to replicate that through programming. It's not that it's better or worse, it's just a different style.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.