RE: "KILL THE PAD" CHALLENGE! WEEK #2 Hosted by @Jamesgetsit/Theme:Steem: Communicate to Connect
Yooo, sorry it took a minute to review it... Busy days.
Alright, so yea man. You said you didn't know how many bars it is, and that is sort of a problem.
When you write a rap, you need to be thinking of it in terms of bars. Rap isn't just poetry spoken over some music. In order to flow, you have to understand when a bar is ending. Once you have this knowledge, you can do what you want over the beat.
Tap your fingers to the beat of an instrumental, 4 beats is 1 bar of music. With rap, 2 of those bars equal one of our bars. So that'd be 8 beats to our rap bar.
To help with it, you can hit your rhyme words on the snare. GENERALLY there is 2 snares per bar in most hip hop instrumentals. Practice with that and you will greatly increase your knowledge with writing raps.
Also, this sounds stupid, but it does help, you could pick some of your favorite rappers, get their lyrics and just rap along with them. Then find another instrumental that is similar, and rap to it. This will help you identify bars and flow a lot more. It's great practice.
Having said that, I thought the content was very cool, but there was no real rhyme scheme or structure to me. I think once you practice with bars and putting bars to a beat, you could write some dopppeee raps.
Right on!!!! Thanks a lot. Yea okay I get what a bar is I am just not well equipped at writing them out.
So one bar has two rhyme words and two lines is one rap bar if I got that correct.
I will definitely be working on this and much much more!! Thank you for the critique, it is the only way to get any better is to learn what is needed!!
No, not exactly... One bar doesn't have to have 2 rhyme words, you can have only a single rhyme in it.
That's 2 bars. There is a pause at the end of the first bar signified by the "/"... Then pickup the second bar when a new bar comes in the beat.
And I totally agree, gotta be open to critiques and criticism for sure, only way to grow.
Okay I see how that goes, I will attempt to do this for the next @termitemusic, I already have it written, just have to find the bars.!!!
Actually real quick if ya have the space.. Here are a couple lines I have, just to give me an idea with my own words how would you write these out.
Obviously there will be another bar needed after that next one. You could also do it the way you were doing it, would be a slower flow, and could possibly have a decent amount of space left open. This works on some instrumentals, but some it doesn't. All depends on the BPM and style of instrumental, at least to me.
Okay!! Cool yea okay I see what you are saying on how to write the words out..
Really thanks this I think will help greatly more to my presentation then writing, not sure if I will switch that.
At least now I will be able to see the bars in the lines better. Until I master all that has to do with this!!
No prob man, if you ever wanna run anything by me or ask me another question or anything dude, just hit me up on discord.
Will do for sure!!