Rapping
Three different sets of rap lyrics in increasing difficulty with a backing track.Includes demo performance plus tips and hints from Max Wheeler of UK hip hop act Dirty Diggers.
Double time rapping is featured - for a simpler rap challenge try seacrhing for "rap challenge basic".
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Rap Activities, Hip Hop Coach
Three different sets of rap lyrics in increasing difficulty with a backing track. Includes demo performance plus tips and hints from Max Wheeler of UK hip hop act Dirty Diggers.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Rap Activities, Hip Hop Coach
Exploring different approaches to writing rap lyrics, focussing on improving imagery through description. Compares two rap verses, with the same subject matter to highlight different ways to paint a picture and improve descriptive lyrics.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Rap Activities, Hip Hop Coach
Exploring different approaches to writing rap lyrics, focussing on improving descriptive language. Compares two rap verses, with the same subject matter to highlight different ways to describe a scene or event and improve descriptive lyrics.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Rap Activities, Hip Hop Coach
This is a spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, about subjects for rap lyrics and the messages they give. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There are also relevant audio clips, photographs and lyrics excerpts. Topics explored are: dumbing down, party tunes, social comment, other subjects, opinions .
Official classification: Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Hip hop, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, party, gangsta, Chicken Noodle Soup, 8th Wonder, Sugarhill Gang, Chuck D, The Message, Grandmaster Flash, NWA, Dr Dre, Straight Outta Compton, JME, Food
This is a short spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, explaining that rap developed from the West African Griot tradition. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There is also an audio clip of rap with an African sounding drum rhythm.
Official classification: Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, Griot, Last Poets, When The Revolution Comes
This is a spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, about slang in rap lyrics. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There are also relevant audio clips, photographs and lyrics excerpts. Topics explored are: opposites, local slang, immigrant slang
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, Run DMC, Peter Piper, Mr Fab, Baydestrian, Boom Bap, Hyphy, backpacker, scraper, Big L, Ebonics, whips, kicks, chips, flicks, cribs, jacks, wicked, sick, ill
This is a spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, about rhyme in rap lyrics. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There are also relevant audio clips, photographs and lyrics excerpts. Topics explored are: rhyming couplets, repeating rhymes, assonance (internal rhyming).
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, Afrika Bambaataa, MC Wiley, Bow E3, Detroit style, Eminem, Any Man
This shows different techniques that can be used when two vocalists share a rap, including drop-outs in the mix. The lyrics include examples of internal rhyming and double time flow. The time signature is unusual for rap, involving triplet patterns. This, along with the whistle sample, give the song a folky feel.
Curriculum area: Listening and understanding
Main focus: rap vocal techniques, triplets
Possible learning outcomes: pupils recognise various ways in which two vocalists can make a vocal texture more interesting
Official classification: Song, 2000s, Interactive Activities, Rap, Rapping, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: grace notes, compound time, doubling
This is an example of new UK rap. It has down-to-earth subject matter and grime beat patterns that use synthesizer sounds.
Curriculum area: Listening and understanding
Main focus:UK rap style
Possible learning outcomes: pupils recognise features of UK rap style
Official classification: Song, 2000s, Interactive Activities, Rap, Rapping, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Food, Hip Hop Coach
This is an example of modern pop Hip Hop. It includes melodic singing, beatboxing and modern drum patterns.
Curriculum area: Listening and understanding
Main focus: Pop Hip Hop style
Possible learning outcomes: pupils recognise features of modern Pop Hip Hop style
Official classification: Song, 2000s, Interactive Activities, Rap, R&B, Rapping, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Live Sequencer, List Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, Live Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach
Live sequencer which lets learners perform backings for their rap tracks in given moods, choosing freely which segments should play next as the music plays.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Improvising, Performing, Texture, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Curriculum support, Charanga, List Sequencer, Hip Hop Coach