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Music Music Techniques Hip Hop Music

Lyricology: Perfect Song Structure and Beat Selection!

Simple techniques for counting bars, song structure and beat selection for aspiring hip hop artists.
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (1,399 ratings)
6,986 students
Created by Andre Gainer
Last updated 3/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • Count out beats and bars
  • Write perfectly structure songs
  • Recite lyrics perfectly to an instrumental
  • Select the best instrumentals for songwriting
  • Determine the speed of your instrumentals
  • Understand how to feel the music you're writing to
  • Find what fits you and the sound you desire

Requirements

  • A metronome is preferred, but not required.

Description

This course is designed to help aspiring hip-hop artists to perfect their understanding of song structure and how to pick out the best beats possible for their musical expression. This course will cover:

  • Counting your bars
  • The standard formats for a typical hip hop song
  • Basic concepts of rapping on beat
  • How to pick the best instrumentals for your sound
  • Feeling the music and using that to write more heartfelt music
  • Establishing a sound that fits the style you want to develop

This course is perfect for beginners, but I feel that ALL artists will be able to grab something from this course. My goal with this courses (and all of my courses) is to teach you these concepts, then get you to experiment with these concepts and develop your own unique style out of what you've learned. I want to pull you out of your comfort zone! I GUARANTEE that your skills will escalate to new levels through this course!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is designed for Hip Hop artists that don't have a solid understanding of beat structure and traditional songwriting. This course is also for artists that don't know which types of instrumentation to perform on, in addition to forming a connection with the music that they're making. No prior musical knowledge is needed for this course. You might not want to take this course if you're looking for advanced music structure techniques (for example: writing to different time signatures, multi-speed instrumentals, etc.)

Featured review

Stephen Edmond Jr
Stephen Edmond Jr
56 courses
12 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 58 months ago
Hi i'm Stephen Edmond singer song-writer as a artist this program has help me understand writing a little bit more. I love how you broke everything down. I'm new at working on a DAW and this course has giving me some insight of understanding the basics. Thank you!

Course content

8 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 13m total length

  • Preview00:40

  • Preview00:29
  • Preview12:03
  • Counting Bars Quiz
    4 questions

  • Song Structure Intro
    00:47
  • Song Structure
    08:10
  • Song Structure Quiz
    4 questions

  • Flow Basics Intro
    01:04
  • Flow Basics part 1
    06:48
  • Preview18:14
  • Flow Basics Quiz
    3 questions

  • Beat Selection Intro
    00:27
  • Beat Selection
    06:55
  • Beat Selection Quiz
    4 questions

  • Understanding the Feel/Tone of your Instrumental Intro
    00:47
  • Understanding the Feel/Tone of your Instrumental
    04:25

  • Finding What Fits You Intro
    00:34
  • Finding What Fits you
    07:24

  • Review
    04:32
  • Course Review Final
    10 questions

Instructor

Andre Gainer
Experimental Hip Hop Artist/Producer
Andre Gainer
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 1,791 Reviews
  • 8,985 Students
  • 3 Courses

I am an experimental hip-hop artist/producer from the Inland Empire, California. I have over 12 years of songwriting experience and over 15 years of production experience. I've released over 13 projects, as well as produced, engineered and ghost-written numerous other projects. I've played with bands and have developed my own wireless, self-DJing hip-hop stage show.

My hip-hop songwriting style encompasses extremely dense multi-syllable rhyming, metaphors and word play. I also incorporate complex themes and story telling. My overall style would be considered experimental.

My hip-hop production style encompasses heavy use of dense laying and sampling. I also incorporate loose, free form drums of varying styles. My overall style would be considered experimental.

I have over 3 years of teaching experience in all of the previously mentioned subjects.


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