On Monday I was doing research considering I was not in the studio. I researched how to properly structure a rap song together. I found out that most rap songs start with a little 2, 4 or 8 bar instrumental without the drums. This is usually so the song has it's own little introduction that you can utilize for adlibs or to give the vocalist a 2, 4, or 8 bar timer before they have to start their chorus or verse. Anon, (2020a). How Many Beats In A Bar - The Ultimate Rap Resource - Rhymemakers. [online] Available at: https://rhymemakers.com/how-many-beats-in-a-bar/. [Accessed 26 May 2021].https://rhymemakers.com/how-many-beats-in-a-bar/.
The way I utilized this instrumental introduction was by creating a build up to when the beat drops and the verse starts. This is what I do in my song "Find my Sound".
I included this part of the audio in the song because I wanted to build tension that way, the listener is getting a taste of what to expect from the verses. I wanted this tension to build up and foreshadow that aggressive sensation into my verses in order to convey my emotion to the audience as that is the while point of this ep.
On Tuesday, I done a retake on my verse for Skitzflow, this was to make the vocals a little more aggressive.
Therefore, Matthias's verse fit into the rest of the song a lot better as he is more of an aggressive rapper:
I also done this retake because I had a talk with Brodie who writes and raps his own lyrics; he mentioned about my use of syllables and said: "on the part when you say "single handedly I will rise", try and change "handedly" to "handed". This was to change the amount of syllables. I did change it to handed and I noticed it sounds a lot more clean and makes the flow feel more tight. This talk with Brodie helped me to understand a more efficient approach to my utilization of syllables.
On Wednesday me and Connor sat in the studio to get Skitzflow finished, in order to do this we split the track that my vocals were on, this was split In the middle of the song right in-between "Maria Joyce's hype man" and "hit the rails". During that gap there is now Mathias's hook and then my second verse with "hit the rails". Originally I had another verse there:
After my verse (hit the rails verse), another one of Matthias hooks was added but with more of an aggressive tone and then his verse. The reason we decided on all of this was so Matthias's first hook can lead up to his more "shouty", aggressive hook. I really like how the hooks changed tone dramatically. I feel that it gave the track more of an energetic structure.
On Thursday I sat down with Georgia who is going to feature in one of my songs called "chilled times" we sat down and talked about how we want the hooks to sound; we decided that, because there is no proper context to the song apart from me saying how much of a laidback person I am, it was decided that Georgia's verse should in a way contradict my verse. For example: my lyrics talk about "sparking up a blunt" and then Georgia's verse talks about how you don't need drugs and all of that nonsense to have a "chilled time". Pun intended.
During this day, I also sat and worked on the song "Find my Sound" because it only needed one more verse added in. I worked on the chorus and decided to have it so the last bar on the chorus changes to match the next verse.
For my new verse I really thought about it and realised that somewhere in the song slightly needed to change topics so Matthias could have his verse included. I start talking about going out, having fun and going to clubs but I also mix this with "trying to find my sound".
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