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Showing posts with label how to count beats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to count beats. Show all posts

Friday, February 1, 2013

How to Have Better Flow

Here is a 2 part video on how to have better flow. First, you need to know how to count beats, so if you don't, learn how to at this video here.


Part 2:

Here are the handouts:





Monday, January 28, 2013

Rapper's Music Theory

All the music theory a rapper needs to know in order to make good flows. What beats are, how to count them, what syncopation is, and so on.


The accompanying hand-out is below:



-->How to get a better sense of rhythm: Rap along to everything you hear while rapping beats.

Follow this increasingly difficult series of songs to become a better rapper:

1.     NWA – Express Yourself
2.     Eminem – Way I Am
3.     Kanye West – jesus Walks
4.     Hypnotize – Biggie
5.     Mos Def - Mathematics
6.     How We do – 50 cent/game
7.     Busta Rhymes - Holla
8.     Eminem – What’s the difference
9.      Outkast  – aquemini, 2nd verse
10. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, MAAD city song

Don't get discouraged! Try to make this song of Eminem recording, starting at 3:03, with the same man who raps, "Zoning off of one joint / stopping a limo, hopped in the window / shopping a demo at gunpoint." He is one of the unquestionable GOATs, but he had to start somewhere.