06-07-2024, 09:04 AM
This was my edit. It sucks:
Text-only lyrics default to 4 bars of 4-4 time per line. So if you have four words per line break, they take a whole note each.
(I mean . . . Who the fuck knows. Until we decide what the protocol is, there is no protocol.)
Also, it’s pretty clear that rap songs require empty feet for breath. You have a clunky way of indicating where the breathing goes: lots of white space. What if it were just a triple space?
Rap tends to have fourteen syllables that include two empty feet for breath. That would be written like this if it’s 4/4
First ya slap em in cuffs. No one really fits in.
Then [out:you] poke em just enough, for his fight or flee to [out:really] kick in.
Who’d have thunk this little punk, arrest him now,
on at least three counts of existing.
I have no idea if this is true, but it seems right that gospel music gets four words per line break. As a waltz, it’s six. As a polka, it’s nine. Rap should have fourteen syllables per line break, with two triple spaces for breathing.
By the way—thank you for posting this. I can’t figure this stuff out alone. You’re giving me useful progress on how to write lyrics.
So, do you want slow, R&B rap or quick trap rap?
And, how should rap text indicate breath lines? A tab is jarring? What about a triple space?
We just have to figure out how to edit lyrics, I think.
Text-only lyrics default to 4 bars of 4-4 time per line. So if you have four words per line break, they take a whole note each.
(I mean . . . Who the fuck knows. Until we decide what the protocol is, there is no protocol.)
Also, it’s pretty clear that rap songs require empty feet for breath. You have a clunky way of indicating where the breathing goes: lots of white space. What if it were just a triple space?
Rap tends to have fourteen syllables that include two empty feet for breath. That would be written like this if it’s 4/4
First ya slap em in cuffs. No one really fits in.
Then [out:you] poke em just enough, for his fight or flee to [out:really] kick in.
Who’d have thunk this little punk, arrest him now,
on at least three counts of existing.
I have no idea if this is true, but it seems right that gospel music gets four words per line break. As a waltz, it’s six. As a polka, it’s nine. Rap should have fourteen syllables per line break, with two triple spaces for breathing.
By the way—thank you for posting this. I can’t figure this stuff out alone. You’re giving me useful progress on how to write lyrics.
So, do you want slow, R&B rap or quick trap rap?
And, how should rap text indicate breath lines? A tab is jarring? What about a triple space?
We just have to figure out how to edit lyrics, I think.
A yak is normal.