Hip Hop Lesson, Part 1

Nov 30, 2008 21:21

So I've been feeling an urge for about a week now to put together some of my thoughts on how hip hop music works, in a technical, production sense. I'm starting today and this will be something I occasionally assemble for my LiveJournal. They'll be short form essays with accompanying music, some created by me and some clips of classic hip hop songs ( Read more... )

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bambina_cricket December 1 2008, 03:14:49 UTC
:D!!!!

If you ever hear me talking about "groove" This is exactly what I am referring to!

Pushing and pulling the beat around can have some really amazing effects, even before adding the vocals on top.

Awesome.

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tolchocky December 1 2008, 05:07:07 UTC
Would you mind sticking these behind a cut?

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dariusk December 1 2008, 13:34:48 UTC
I will put future ones behind a cut.

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purple_dj December 1 2008, 17:26:59 UTC
The Books - Lost and Safe - An Animated Description of Mr Maps (track 6)

Listen carefully at the 2:23-3:05 range.

They're taking a found sound description of a suspect and pushing and pulling the drum beats to match the rhythm of the voice and almost make it rap-like.

Made me think of this post.

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Very cool sarron December 30 2008, 18:49:18 UTC
Thanks for sharing this lesson. As you know, I don't know half of what you do about hip hop or music in general, but I love learning.

This is starting to remind me of those EE crash courses you gave a bunch of us for your WPI GDC project years ago. ;)

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Re: Very cool sarron December 30 2008, 18:50:31 UTC
Er... didn't mean to reply to purple_dj, sorry. I always forget that LJ has nested replies, as it's so uncommon among most blogs.

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