Free Rap Guides.

Count the pulse, hear the spaces and record a more deliberate take with Kendrick Lamar, De La Soul and the Fugees as listening examples.

• Separate pulse, subdivisions and vocal timing.
• Explain a passage through entry, stress and phrase length.
• Record and compare two deliberate eight-bar takes.

Build an eight-bar verse around a clear change, use rhymes deliberately and test the writing in a complete recorded take.

• Separate rhyme sound, bar line and completed thought.
• Build an eight-bar plan with a clear change.
• Revise forced rhymes and compare two recorded drafts.

Follow layer changes, distinguish documented samples from interpolations and build a precise listening note with examples from Megan Thee Stallion and Kirk Knight.

• Map an arrangement change by layer and location.
• Distinguish audible resemblance from a documented sampling process.
• Write a listening note with a clear source trail.