Hip Hop Lesson, Part 1

[dariusk]

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

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[bambina_cricket]

: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.

[tolchocky]

Would you mind sticking these behind a cut?

[dariusk]

I will put future ones behind a cut.

[purple_dj]

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.

Very cool

[sarron]

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. ;)

Re: Very cool

[sarron]

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.