![]() ![]() Greathouse: I’m going to look for some old-school YouTube videos of The Mud People… As I said, I encourage my students to be open to new adventures. We had a record store up the block called “Flat, Black And Circular” and I would spend all my free money on records from up there and I would take them home, make them digital, chop them into pieces, rearrange them and rap on them. I went through all the songs I listened to and looked for the samples they used and how they were made and started to do the same thing. When I heard “Impeach The President,” I instantly started rapping all the words to “The Message.” That is when I learned what sampling was and that is when I started to do my homework. The name of the song is called “Impeach The President” and the sample is the drum loop for a song called “The Message” by Nas. For instance, how did a drum break in a Honeydrippers’ song launch your exploration of music outside of the hip-hop world?Īustenfeld: Hip-hop is so cool man, that question is exactly why hip-hop is so cool. Greathouse: I’ve found that successful entrepreneurs are insatiably curious – a trait that is clearly alive and well within you. That is how I knew this whole thing would work I am living proof that you can learn (to be a musician) on YouTube. I found a broken guitar at the YMCA - I asked if I could have it and they said, “Promise to fix it, promise to play it, and it is yours,” so I Googled “How to fix guitars,” fixed it, then (I Googled) “How to play guitar” and I actually learned how to play guitar on YouTube. The more I listened to older vinyl the more fascinated I became with it. The music I was making at home were sample based hip-hop beats, and the more I made, the more I started listening to older music. At the time, I didn’t play any instruments, I just loved music. Same thing with music, I never thought I would be doing it professionally. Preston, a friend of mine, told me, “I just spend my day watching YouTube” and I remember asking him, “What is that?” Imagine that, I remember the exact place I was when I first heard about YouTube, but I never imagined I would be creating content for the platform, I just remember thinking it was a cool idea. At the time, I just learned what YouTube was. How did your college hip hop experiences inform your career as a digital music instructor? What caused you to move from hip hop videos to making ukulele and guitar videos?Īustenfeld: I just loved music and wanted to create it. ![]() ![]() I understand that while in college you made free-style beats and that your first YouTube videos focused on hip hop. I implore my UCSB students to, “Be a Yes.” Too often, fear causes us to shut down when new opportunities arise. ![]()
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