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M U S I C M A K E R S 1 0 1 37 BREAKING IT DOWN "When I was writing my songs and I learned what a bar was, I didn't even need a beat. Sometimes I was just like one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and there's a lot of rhythm to it. I had to learn that rhythm. I had to learn those melodies. But it's easier the more that you practice and the more that you're writing your lyrics down, when you're finding your beats, or if you don't have a beat, you can just do that count in your head." There are four beats in one bar. You have 16 bars in your verse and within that 16 bars, you're going to have beats. Those beats will be kicks, snares, and drums. It'll be broken down 16 times for your verse and then another eight times for your hook. "Now that you know that the song is broken up in two parts, your hooks and your verses and you know that there's beats in between each bar, it's going to help you catch those melodies. It's going to help you when you're writing your songs." "I always wanted to rap fast. I just didn't know how this makes it much easier." Dakota uses his MacBook that has GarageBand and often records with Rob the Viking. In GarageBand you can set the bar, the beat and the tempo. You can adjust the tempo depending on if you want a slow or fast song. If you don't have GarageBand, you can google metronome and use a web-based tool. TEMPO: the pace of a song, expressed in beats per minute. METRONOME: a tool for counting out beats which helps keep music on time.

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