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How To Freestyle Rap With Brain Hack Exercises

teacher avatar Pat Parra, Creator of Pro Rap Academy

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro To Freestyle Rap For Beginners

      0:44

    • 2.

      Start Easily Freestyling with Baby Talk

      4:23

    • 3.

      Elementary Freestyle Skills

      5:42

    • 4.

      Breaking Out The Box Of Rhymes

      8:44

    • 5.

      Telling Your Freestyle Rap Story

      11:09

    • 6.

      Push Your Breath Control While Rapping

      7:02

    • 7.

      How To Freestyle Rap About Things Around You part 1

      3:52

    • 8.

      Freestyle About Your Surroundings Part 2

      6:44

    • 9.

      Freestyle Tips To Keep You From Getting Stuck

      2:53

    • 10.

      Rapping Over Freestyle Beats Challenge

      6:00

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About This Class

Learn how to freestyle rap easily with these fun brain hack exercises for beginners.

You'll go through proven exercises over freestyle beats right along with me to open up your creativity and allow you to express yourself with freestyle rapping.

The biggest problem beginners have is overthinking which gets them stuck and not able to freestyle for more than a few seconds. 

These exercises help cut through your mental blocks so you can freestyle rap naturally. 

My name is Pat, and I've been teaching people how to freestyle rap since 2002 because I love seeing people go from being stuck in their head to naturally flowing their own lyrics and stories over beats.

I've been teaching online since 2014 and I currently have the highest viewed how to freestyle rap video on youtube with over 1.7 million views. 

Freestyle rapping helped me deal with depression when I was in high school because it's a great emotional release.

Freestyling also helped me start songwriting.

I was never able to finish a song until I learned how to freestyle rap.

One of the cool things about freestyling is...

If you can freestyle you can easily write song lyrics for any genre of music.

And the best way to learn how to rap is to first start with freestyling.

This class is designed to be a fun way for you to start to freestyle your own thoughts, emotions, and stories over music.

I'm happy to share this training with you and I hope you enjoy the exercises.

- Pat

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Pat Parra

Creator of Pro Rap Academy

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Meet Pat, a professional songwriter with over 25 years of experience in the music industry. Pat has a unique approach to songwriting, using freestyle rapping as a tool to create songs in every genre. He's worked with Grammy-nominated artists and producers from around the world, honing his skills to become a master at his craft. Pat has developed a deep understanding of the technical aspects of freestyling, and knows exactly how to help others improve their skills. He's passionate about sharing his knowledge and helping others succeed in their own music careers. With Pat's guidance and expertise, you'll be able to take your freestyling and songwriting to the next level.

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1. Intro To Freestyle Rap For Beginners: Oedipus Pat. And in this course you're gonna learn how to freestyle rap. I going through really simple freestyle rap exercises. These exercises are for complete beginners. So if you're a complete beginner, maybe you're experiencing, you're not sure if you're flows good, you get stuck when you freestyle. Some other stuff hasn't worked. I want to make sure that these steps work for you. So continue on with these steps. They're going to be really simple, they might feel really silly. The purpose of this exercise is to help you get in touch with your subconscious flow so that you can get out of your head and into your feelings, into your emotions, into the energy around you, and start expressing yourself freely and easily with freestyle rapping. So I hope you enjoy these exercises. Continue on to the next video to get started and I'll see you in the next video. All right, Bye. 2. Start Easily Freestyling with Baby Talk: Let's get started. So in this course, I want to teach you to kinda just like you would in a one-on-one situation. So I'm gonna do my best like when I teach 101, I really want to make sure even if it's complete beginner, even if it's someone didn't never freestyle rap before. I want to try to help you freestyle. It's my favorite thing to do is to help people freestyle because it opens up a whole new world of creativity. And so that's what we're gonna do in the first exercises may seem really silly. The first exercise we're gonna do is we're just going to mumble over the beat. This is something mumbling. It's kind of like speaking gibberish is the most popular thing that pop singers do. Rappers do when they're trying to find their flows, trying to find their voice. A lot of new rappers gets stuck in their head and stuck in their notebooks, writing, writing, writing. And they get stuck in this box of their notebook and then they almost never wrap out loud in front of anyone. So we're going to break through all that. They're just giving you fun exercises. Try to have fun with this. Try to be free and we're gonna get into it right now, Let's get started. So this first exercise is something that it's called top lining. Just gibberish is kinda trying to find flows. And I'm going to pull on a b. And you guys are just going to repeat after me off for this exercise. So just, this is just a warm up and then we're going to get into more words exercises. But right now we're just going to warm up with some mumble wrapping. Okay, let's get started. I'm going to play the speed. It's kind of a jazzy be, drums come in and out. So he's going to follow me a regard. So just repeat after me. Okay. I'm gonna give you some time to wrap. And the main thing you want to wrap right along with me, you wanna make sure in a place where you can wrap out loud, it's the best thing. Don't just watch this course. Make sure you can do is write along with me or ISO. Let's get started. All right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But ABA, ABA, HMO from O fie your turn. Go ahead. Now I go. Shem was shown a Shama has a good return. You repeat after me. Okay, Now I'm going ashamed. Shame Shamma a. Your turn. We don't care which you say your shirts. I have my hello, hey, hey, hey, hey. Day. Price, printing after me. Okay, good job. You could make any sense because you actually care about how much? He has. An area. Tv. You're charged skull off. Last time. That I do, but okay, the beats over. We're going to get into the next exercise in a second when you go to the next exercise. But, but that, and it's a really good thing to do to practice when you're first, I got a lot of times we get stuck on words, but if you're having troubles your flows because you're prioritizing lyrics and words overflow and over being rhythmic and just connecting with the B. Okay, when you're doing these exercises, try to just connect emotionally. Try to really feel it. I chose that really show beats. These are all beats by hemp milk. My friend Isaiah floors, HMP, MLK hemp milk. And we're just going to have a lot exercises with these bees. Okay, they're pretty fun, pretty weird. The Beats come in and out. So it's just, it's kind of a cool challenge. So what we're going to do that in the next video, we're gonna get started with some Ward exercises, okay? And you can do these exercises over and over again if you want, just to help you loosen up, you get into flow just to have fun with it. Okay, Let's go to the next video. 3. Elementary Freestyle Skills: Alright, now in the upcoming videos, we're going to go through four simple steps to help you start being vocal over beats, help you start saying words over beats, and just kinda help you break through grad your head. And these are also very silly, very simple exercises, but they're designed to help you just kinda not guest breakthrough any fears. And the key with these exercises is don't worry about rhyming. Don't worry about sucking. The key is about having fun. And the only way to get good at something is to allow yourself to go through that period of feeling like you're not very good. But these exercises are going to help you kinda ease into it, break through any blocks you might have and just helping you freestyle. At least that's my hope. That's my hope for you. And again, this first exercise is just counting. All right, we're just going to count to four over a beat. I want to go first and then I'm just going to repeat after me. All right. Okay. Chromatophores, who was an account and your PRC omega 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Now your turn. All right. Now, let me go. 12341234. Go ahead. Said Allow go. Right now we're going to play with the beat a little bit, okay? And we're just going to use the same numbers in a different order. Any, any kind of rhythm you, this is going to be like just so you can do it like me or to say nothing but 1, 2 2, 2, 2 3 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3. For your turn. To 222331244441235. Is Bobby has to be there to help you stay on B. Bobby has to be why you're hearing it. Won't won't want to do a lot lot, lot due to the two above it. Last time to have 2, 2 2 2, 2 2 2 2 2 3, 3, 3 4 4, 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5, 1, 1, 2. All right, and I think we're gonna have another B where we're gonna, we're gonna do this one more time over the next B. And we're just going to play with the, play with the words, play with the numbers, and just for this helping. But we're just trying to be vocal right now. It's trying to be vocal and help you get comfortable being folklore isolette, let's do this. Let's just go ahead. All right. This piece of by hemp milk. Yeah. Shed for ball 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4. Go ahead. Well ball onto a 2, 2 3, 3, 3 4 2, 2 2 2, 2 2 4 4, 4 4 5 5 5 5 10 9 8 7 6 5 4, 3 2 1, 1 2 3 5. 23333422222222. Can play with the numbers anyway. You want just go crazy on the beco slower and faster. Yeah. Keep going. All right. Okay. That's it. Okay. Those are some exercises helped you get warmed up. And the next exercise, we're going to have some more fun with this. Thanks for watching so far. If you got through those exercises, you're doing really, really great. You're being vocal. And that's what most new rappers have a hard time doing is just being vocal and allowing themselves to kinda just jump into the music and start being vocal and playing with the beat. So again, remember if we're having fun, we're not worrying about if we sound good or anything. We're just having fun. We're playing with our voice. You know, you can go back and do these exercises slower and faster. And they're just going to help you kinda break free and get comfortable flowing over beats because that's all it is. And the mumble exercise again is so important. This is what all the top pros do. They mumble first and then they turn their mumbles into writing because that's how you're going to really find your flow and we'll talk more about that later. But now we're going again to the next video, a really fun exercise, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye. 4. Breaking Out The Box Of Rhymes: All right, In the next exercise we're going to practice something really simple but really powerful. And what you're going to need for this practice is a book like any kinda book. I just got this random book from my wife. This is Ginny and the cat club or any kind of book. We're gonna do this exercise. You need to pause and get a book. Go ahead and do that. But this exercise is going to really help you work on annunciation. You'll notice that the best rappers in the world annunciate their words really clearly. Okay, So this exercise is can help you with your flow. It's going to help you with your delivery. It's going to help you get comfortable wrapping real words, but the words already there for us. This is another reminder that you don't need to do, Brian, every single line to wrap. And so what you wanna do is find a book that does not rhyme, just average book, any book like a Harry Potter book, any kind of book that does not rhyme. All right, because we're just going to wrap the book. Okay? It's, it's a fun exercise, really powerful is a lot of benefits for it and we're going to get into it right now. All right, so what I'm gonna do is open up to a random page. If you've got your book opened up to a random page, alright? And the first line says, I haven't any money. It was funny. Okay, so open up to a random page and I'm not going to, not going to really read it. And we're going to start out just reading really slow. We're not going to try to read fast, and I'll try to read really slow and then we're gonna go faster later, but let's try really slow. I'm going to play a new beat and let's get started. Remember the focus is annunciation. Don't worry about Reimer to worry about sounding cool. Just wrapped up yet. I haven't any money said the golden hair cat, I'm broke table side, but Jenny said it would be fun to have some fun. Florio looked at Jenny, where would you like to go? He asked, oh, anywhere said Jenny, people said to her name one idea. Jenny thought a moment, she try to think what her master, captain tinker would do in such a situation. Certainly he would do something Jenny told her. So he would think of games or have the cat nip on or something. A bright idea flashed through her mind. Let's find a doorway in a secret passage. She cried, that might lead to an enchanted place. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Now, it didn't sound, doesn't sound that good. We're going to play with our flow later on. But right now what I want you to do is just bob your head and read words over the beats and try to really focus on annunciation. Make your mouth really big and enunciate because that's going to really help your vocal muscle with wrapping. Wrapping is all about your vocal muscle, your speech muscle. I had a stutter and fourth grade and this is the exercise that my therapists for my stutter helps me with initiates speaking really slow and enunciating. This is going to really help your graph skill in your app faster if you can do it slow, you'll get into a faster later. Alright, so I'm gonna play the beat for you. Hopefully you have like a paragraph or a page you want to read and just going to read through it. And I'm just going to play this beat for you. Here we go. Yang, be the slow. Just take your time. It is five your head. All right, That's a great job. So now what we're gonna do is we're going to read a little faster with a little crazier flow. And I'm gonna go first. I'm just gonna kinda push my flow. If you're not comfortable going faster yet, that's totally okay because the priority isn't wrapping fast, so I don't know rappers want to wrap fast, but the main thing you want to do is speak clearly because that's what's going to give you the rap muscle. It's going to give you the vocal muscle that you need to be able to deliver your lyrics. So I'm going to go first again, and I'm just going to try to experiment, make it a little more challenging. And then you can make it a little more challenging for yourself and try to play with the flow, play with that beat a little more and pick a new page. I'm gonna pick a new page and then we're going to try to go again. All right. So I'm going to probably be your page. Got a new page. When pickles happened to look over there, make sure the Janet was all right. Jenny was nowhere to be seen or there could be seen was one black font appearing from behind the basket and then disappearing in a second. Another front Paul Rowles and flat and disappeared because was terrified. Jenny is drowning. He cried. He left, Alice fed the legs and brushed off to Jenny floor, Rio Grande nafta. But then they look behind the basket. There is no water. Jenny was not drowning. Jazz was on dry ground dancing at the sailors horn pipe where well, so pitfalls with the Nope admiration and his queer rough voice. And Florida, oh cry. Oh Jenny, will you me. Will you dance with me again? Hit. So that's a right state and have to sound that has a sound that time. But yeah, so that's playing with the flow a little more challenging myself trying to make it more rhythmic and stuff like that. And now it's your turn. Pick a new page and remember, just to take your time, read it slow, half fun, and focus on your enunciation. Play with the words, play with the flow, whatever, and your turn. So now, go ahead. Here we go. Let's go. Sorry. Yes. Okay, cool. Great job. And let's go on to the next challenge that remember you can do these exercises anytime you want. Keep challenging yourself. Go back and force like with the numbers, you can go crazy, different flows and stuff, but we want to start slow and then go faster. If we start slow and really develop our breath control and our speech, then wrapping faster will be way easier. The other thing that we're going to talk about later is the one breath technique. So another thing you can do while you're reading is try to see how far you could go with one breath. See how far you can read with one breath. That's another challenge you can do to really challenge yourself. And I was doing that during my freestyle session or asks you in the next video. 5. Telling Your Freestyle Rap Story: All right, In this next exercise, we're going to tell a story about our day, trying to start at the beginning of the day and try to get to where we are now. And it's okay if you go off on tangents, if you let the rhymes take you somewhere and also, don't worry about rhyming. Don't stop if you mess up. If you do mess up, you can be like or you can say I messed up, just make sure to keep going. These are the two golden rules. Don't worry about rhyming. Keep going if you mess up and I'm going to go first and then you're gonna go, I'm gonna give you time on the beats ago. We're just going to have fun with this guy and don't worry about rhyming, Dory, about messing up and this first try round delicious wrapper or slow, like a really slow flow, you know, just trying to tell a story about her day. Again, the last exercise was to show you that you could wrap without RI me, I might not sound that good, but you can do it. You can turn things that don't rhyme into rap, so you could definitely do that and now you don't have to worry about rhyming. Alright, so here we're gonna go. I'm gonna go first, and then you're gonna go, here we go, telling a story about my day. And then I will feel happy. Yeah, see you happen today. I remember happens because I was napping. Yeah. So I woke. Really can't lay ahead and do a freestyle session. There was gray on YouTube every Tuesday to be freestyle or with MA program crew, we be rapid off the top that really don't matter. We do all the time and I have my bladder kinda fall. So I had to during the class during the session, I was like, How long does this last? My bladder was about the break. I'm like, oh no, I wish I could shake this feeling so I had to go pee while everyone was free. Stalin around me, deaminated in a year, the sound B, but it's all good. I came that no one was wiser and now I'm just brighter. And now I just confess the secret to you. And now I'm teaching you how to freestyle. Yes, what I do. Okay. So I'm going to have you go in a second. I wasn't really trying to rhyme every line. There are some parts of our rhyme. If you fill out you want to run, you could, but it's really good just to not worry about rhyming. A lobule gets stuck on rhyming. But the main thing you wanna do to break through kinda let your subconscious go through, is just kinda trust yourself. Trust where the flow takes you trust with a beat tastes you try to connect to the beach and just kinda tell story about your day. You're going to go now to tell a story about your day. Started the beginning, reps low, whatever is comfortable for you. And let's go right now. And we're going to have many times to do this too. So don't worry if you're not comfortable, but definitely give this a shot. Here we go. Your turn. The gene. Okay, Great job, great job, gone through that exercise. And let's move on to another chance. Or basically we're going to do this again, but a freestyle about our day. And we're going to see if we can freestyle maybe a little faster, challenges off a little more. We're just going to see a freestyle on about our day and now we're going to add some imagination into it. Okay, so be sure to like go off and go crazy with your imagination. Imagine different things and just see if you can take an element of your day. And it's just like why you're going and just kinda see if you could like do something crazy like fly on a dragon or maybe you sat on a chair and it flew or are something like driving in your car and then it flew into the ocean and then it went turned into a summary and like whatever. Now we're going to try this using our imagination. Again, don't worry about rhyming. If you mess up, keep going. And let's try new beat. Let's try new beat for this. All right, and here we go. Let's go, let's go. All right. So I'm going to start out about my day and I'm just going to see where it goes on MIke, go anywhere. Let, let's see what happens. Okay? Alright, here we go. Yeah, yeah. Taco Bell My Day or something. I don't even know. I just don't even know I'm going to say, but I'll start with my day and see where it takes me. We will see maybe everybody's name. Maybe they think papyri is lazy. They write, stay up all night and the day time because I don't like to leave it. I imagined there my bed is a flying carpet. Fly over oceans and I like to park it on Mars when I'm flying without cars, I don't need a car because I'm staring at the stars yet and you don't have to rhyme i 2 or all the time. I don't know how to start, Man, I really just need a mob to clean up my language and Spanglish and Espanol, you know, homage to lay em, bro. Yeah, That's South America. You should really know me. My name is papyri and now I'm your homie because you took my class and I'll feel they lack a goalie there, that you pass through a score your goal, and that's fine. I'll hope you control your rise, control your flows. Just kidding. You can go or you want it don't matter because man, on the track, they tell me Pat, can you hold back now? I'm never wag just hit is sometimes I go off me, sometimes I'm on I don't care. It is Kiba in all that great Guam because I liked them luster. It makes me feel like I got clustered in my veins, take it out, you know how field and kinda pain. I feel that hey, am I I don't even know why I have to try. When a mom my computer, I'm feeling like a computer without the traffic because my whole styles elastic. Okay, alright, alright, so I just kinda went off, you know, I went off a little bit. Use my imagination is let it take me wherever I want to go. You want to throw it around, you can't, but you don't have to. The main thing is just to keep going. Don't stop if you mess up and we're going to get into that right now. So I'm gonna give you this b and you're going to just start with your day and see where your day takes. You see if you can open up your imagination. Because when you open up your imagination could use so much ideas for songwriting for free styles, your freestyle has really become limitless. So we're just going to just use this imagination practice, starting with our day and seeing what we can make really crazy in our day and just go anywhere. You just no rules. You can do whatever you want. All right. Ready? Go ahead. Hi. Hello. Thank you. Okay, Awesome. Awesome. If you did that freestyle exercise, you're doing great. You're already free styling, you're already on his first level of freestyle. It's a subconscious free styling where you're just letting your mind wander. You're not trying to force anything. You're just letting whatever comes, whatever it comes, let it the rhymes to you, let the words take you. Try to open your mind. Free styling is all about kinda word associations, like what does the word make you think of? And you don't want to judge yourself. Don't judge yourself for going off on a weird tangents. You don't want to think that you're crazy or weird because you're saying something. So that's the cool thing about with me and you were free-standing right now, we can be totally or in a safe place. Only one hearing you and I can't even hear you. It's just me and you, you're hearing me say a bunch of weird stuff and then you can say whatever we want, and that's the freedom of that. And then when you do find friends to freestyle with, make sure their friends are really positive. Make sure their friends you're really comfortable with, especially when you're learning, when you're starting out, you want to be around friends that you really trust and you feel you don't feel judged because you don't want to judge yourself. You don't want to be around judgemental energy when starting. You just want to be around supportive energy where you guys can all have fun and express yourself. It's not about being the dopants wrap right now, just about breaking free and starting to express yourself and have fun. And then we can go into more tightening up the freestyle flows later. But right now we're just having fun breaking in. All right, so I'll see you in the next video. All right, Bye. 6. Push Your Breath Control While Rapping: All right, you're doing great so far. If you've gotten this far, you're doing really awesome. We're going to continue on with the challenges. This is a really cool challenge that will make people say they'll just really excited about your free styles and they'll be like, Wow, you got a lot of skill. What you can do is called the one breast technique and this is where you rap as far as you can with one breath during the reading section where I was reading, you can practice while reading. You just read as far as you can with one breath. It's really going to help you with your breath control. It's very impressive and you want to be able to annunciate, but also goes far as I can with one breath. And another thing with free styling is to be really good at freestyle and build a freestyle like juice old Roberta freestyle, full songs. As you want to write a list of passions, subjects, subjects that you're really passionate about. So I really recommend you could pause this butt, right? Ten subjects down that you really love. It could be basketball cars, baseball cards, serial a could be girls, it could be movies. It could be anything you're really into. But don't worry about what other rappers round about. You worry about what you really, really like. K for me, I typically erupt about relationships. It's good to think about things that are really, really emotional for you. Anything that annoys you, because passion could be something really good, but it could also be something you hate, could be also something that's really annoying, something that you can't stand, something that kinda triggers you and in a bad way, those are also passions subjects. So like when girls cheat on me, I don't like that and have a lot to say about that ad Grow Xiaomi felt like my heart was broken and kinda stuff like that. And so I talk about that a lot. About other things I'm interested in. Mostly for me, it's girls. But for you, it could be cars, it could be movies, could be anything, anything that you're really more emotional connection the better AC typically, that's why I love songs connect so well. But in this exercise, what we're gonna do, we're going to pick one-year passions subjects for me. I'm going to talk about something that's annoying me recently or maybe I'm a little worried about that's something you can do to what's something that worries you right now is something that bothers you right now. This is a great way to kinda get a therapeutic release from freestyle. I noticed through at least some emotions released. Some feelings can help you feel lighter in the moment. And not only would it feel that experienced, that kinda release is to focus on something that's very true for you right now. Something that maybe it's really annoying for you right now. So for me, my wife is in LA, I'll tell you about, I'm just going to freestyle about it. And then what I recommend you do is pick something you're really passionate about. It could be random thing or it could be something that annoys you right now, something that really annoys you. And then you can practice this thing of we're going to go as far as the candles one breath, then breathe and then wrap a little bit and then keep pushing as far as we can with one breath. And I'm going to do this exercise right now. Remember you don't have to rhyme, but I'm gonna go first. I'm going to go right now. Let me tell you about my let me tell you about my why I'm so worried. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Mark girl left LA and I don't know if she's cheating because Mao homebuilding trying to figure out if phi to be feeding myself but I forgot to E, so I'm just gonna wrap for your if you don't like that and you can tell me I can't wrap it all is fine. I'm trying to help you out if you don't want, unless you can find the guy and his somato Kit, Check the rhythm might be comin off their head. The topic never lyndon Australian know there are keep on going and I say orderly way, like my messages play soccer. I'm sure they say the same stuff. Hello. Hi. We've got the same rough type of staff people go for miles and miles, but not the a I'm not M&M, but I think I'm kind of DRE being nice. I share my advice for yaws UK illness if for UQ, learn for you to be the one to have a wrapping turn and make some songs or maybe just freestyle for fun and get shakes. And it's all good. You can do whatever you want. It's all sick. Okay. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Is freestyle little bit. So for this session, you notice I was just kinda like push in my breast, push it my brush control, trying to go as far as I could with one breath. And then you can do the same thing and then you wrap, just kinda wrap whatever and then try to push. Again. Trying to push, It's going to help us your brush control. It's very impressive because it's going to make your writing more interesting because you're able to kind of know where you need to breathe and you're able to push your lines harder to get to a spot where you actually need to breathe. And yeah, you can just do more interesting stuff when you know that you can go for a long time without breathing. So it's a fun practice and it's pretty cool. So I'm going to give you a chance to pick your one subjects. So kinda go off on different tangents, picks something. The more emotional, the better if you want to freestyle like useful, the more emotional the Moore's bothering her at now maybe your teacher spat at you. Maybe somebody steps on your toe. The more emotional to more painful it is for you right now, the more it's easier to get out of your head and into the emotion and just dive into the music. So trying to feel that music with your heart, trying to feel it, start to feel the emotion and trying to jump in, right. Here you go Your turn, right? So to speak. All right. Great job, great job, great job, great job. I hope you enjoyed that practice and these are our price again, you can do it again, practice again. I really recommend listening to the beat again, practicing again. And just keep on doing that breath control practices and really good practice. And we're gonna do a few more challenges to coming up. All right, so I'll see you in the next video. 7. How To Freestyle Rap About Things Around You part 1: All right, and this freestyle challenge, we're going to start free styling about things that are around us. Again, don't worry about rhyming. In fact, and this exercise is a great exercise to kind of break through that needs to rhyme. And what we're gonna do is just name things we see in the room. So we've taken a break from the subconscious before. We're just kinda doing whatever we fell, allowing our minds to wander, really just trying to trust ourselves. And free styling really is all about trusting yourself. It's really all about trusting your process, trusting the process of learning something new. Trusting the process of you starting to express yourself and your feelings, starting to allow different parts of your itself be exposed and be shared. No one's listening, it's still good for you to kinda see what comes out and surprise yourself with what comes out, just trusting everything and just diving into the music, diving into the feelings of the music and seeing what comes out. We're gonna kinda start getting into some conscious free styling because we're gonna be talking about things that we see in the physical world, okay? Not just our internal world, our imagination. We're going to start talking about things in the physical world. And the first thing we're gonna do, we're not gonna worry about rhyming. And this is actually really hard to do. It's hard not to run, contrary to force myself not to rhyme and just talk about things. And what we're gonna do. We're gonna do like I see a blank, I see this. I'm looking at this as what we're gonna do and just to get started, free styling about things that are around you. Okay? So I'm gonna go first and using the same B. It's kinda jazz, you'd be. All right. And then what we're doing, just, just really simple. Looking around the room, talking about what we see. Like I see a stream, ICO lives, I see a current, I see a chair. I'm looking at myself on the screen like I said, looking at the chair, not looking at the floor. Now I'm looking at my focus right recorder. When I looked behind me, I see a couch and cinco anos. When I look above me, I see the ceiling with a weird type of paint in a yellow light. Oh my gosh. I try to grab it. I can't. So it's really hard. It's really hard not to Ryan, but doing this, it's going to make rhyming way easier because your brain naturally wants to rhyme. You've been listening to hip-hop your whole life, most of the hip off for a long time to your brain's going to want to nationally rhyme, but just try to force yourself not to start naming things in the room. Okay, so you're gonna go now and then we're going to continue this exercise. There you go. Now, I see a blank looking at this. Don't worry about rhyming, just do that. Yeah. Okay, Great job. Now we're going to get into some rhyming in the next video. 8. Freestyle About Your Surroundings Part 2: Now we're going to start finally kind of focusing on rhyming and was starting out rhyming. I want you guys to start with a really easy rhymes like cat hat, bat, you know, car, bar, star, you know, these rhymes I think on the spot it's scary to try to come up with rhymes, but like, you know, it's kinda, it's overthink it like again, this is about trusting yourself, having fun. And when you're starting to freestyle, if it's throwing in rhymes is new for you. We're just going to throw in one rhyme at a time, like maybe one rhyme per freestyle and you're not going to force it. You're going to let rhymes come naturally. So your freestyle and talking about stuff in your room, that's what we're gonna do, are just going to talk about the objects like we did in the previous one. But now we're just going to try to throw a Reimann. There's no pressure to rhyme. Like if you don't rhyme at all, all good, you don't have to rhyme at all. But on this challenge, we're going to try to throw in a rhizome is going to allow ourselves, instead of forcing ourselves not to rhyme, we're going to allow ourselves to run. We're going to allow whatever comes out and if we see opportunity for feels natural, but yeah, just take a deep breath, relax and rhyming doesn't have to be hard. It is very hard in the moment, but I think when it becomes hard, it is people trying to rhyme every single line. You don't need to write every single line. And I hope that's what you've been learning. And it makes your flows March staying and makes sure freestyle is more, is going to make your Song's marketing. And it's going to help you come up with flows that you might not have come up with normally if you were trying to run every line. So what we're gonna do now is try to throw in just one rhyme during this freestyle session. And then we're going to push it and we're gonna play it back. And you can keep playing it back and try to throw in more and more beef stars one next freestyle. Then due to stuff like that, That's the easiest way to learn how to round. You get comfortable and look for easy rhymes, easy, easy ones. You want to start out very, very easy, very easy because you just want to get the experience of feeling like you're rhyming over a b, live. Alright, so let's do this. We're going to use the same beat and let's go check novels, going to look at the stuff I was looking at before, like I see it it and then I'm just going to allow myself to run. All right? Yeah. Yeah. Whenever again, someone has tried to do as many as I can because I'm a little more comfortable. Yeah, I can do a fluid and Espanol gamma like to do is to be truly is school. Now I'm deke an ad or brown shirt and I was a flirt, but I didn't really know how a one it says be the girls told me I should offer more. But I was like, No, I should go to the third store and buy your work. I think it's called the game and maybe I can learn instead. I'm seeing here face red and it burns because I'm embarrassed, man, these girls make silly. I just feel like building walk into getting Shockley on the rural Vietnam jump in then some pools of chocolate swimming pools. And I really like them, you know, feeling through now I'm looking at a lie. I just my ride my motorbike to the street. If you do that, are we that she meets Shanda with the beef and chicken and she's checked away that I do it, you know, I'm always knock knees. Now I'm looking at a wall is flat with bombs on it. I'm kinda confused. I wish I could jump on it like Spiderman and walk-up crossed the ceiling like it's easy and fly away like Superman. In every girl that I saw. I really want to learn how to fly. But I don't want to die on that one. That was weird, that was weird. Okay, I'm gonna give you a chance. So another thing to remember, it, really powerful thing for free styling is using your imagination to kinda knows else out about Superman, Spiderman, like allow yourself to go anywhere the very opens. Now's the time to be judging yourself. I'm not doing the best free styles, I'm just having fun being weird. Allow yourself to be weird and if you're in a safe place, allow yourself to be uncensored, say what, whatever you need to say. Hopefully you're in a safe place where you could say whatever, just don't judge yourself and allow yourself to fly, allow your imagination to go crazy, allow your imagination to run wild when you open yourself to your imagination and you allow all these different ideas to come in. It doesn't matter how weird it is. Allow yourself to come in and say it and just express it that is going to be comfortable. Free styling, because free styling is about trusting yourself, trusting or process trusting your emotions and allowing your emotions and your feelings and the energy around you space to kinda be channeled through you, and that's the best music is made, best free styles are made. So that's we're trying to help out here. Okay, so now it's your turn. You can use your objects around you as starting points and then just kinda go off and just try to throw it at least one rhyme. Try to look for easy rhymes. Cat, hat, bar, star, just anything that's easy. Just tried to 1, right? The next time around, try to do another RAM. All right, Here we go. Your turn. Excellent. Okay. Okay. Okay, okay, Very, very good, Very good. I hope you liked that exercise. We're gonna do more exercises. Uh, yeah, Remember this is all about trust yourself having fun out like this training so far I hope you liked these freestyle exercises and I'll see you in the next video. 9. Freestyle Tips To Keep You From Getting Stuck: Alright, in this video I want to talk about some typical problems that you might have with free styling and how you can fix them. So, so far I hope you're filling loosened up and I hope you feeling better about free styling, but maybe you're still feeling stuck. Maybe you still feel stuck like you don't know what to rap about or you feel like stuck when you try to run for the stuck if you try to run, That's why I said don't worry about rhyming, starting out, just worry about being vocal. Even if you have to make up words. There's go Bla, bla dab, dab it and just mumbling. Mumbling is so important because it helps you find your flow over a beat. The other thing is what do you feel like your flow isn't good? We're gonna have another class for that. And that's going to be all about stealing the flow of your favorite rappers once you're able to still flow of your favorite rappers, combine them into your own. You gonna have a very unique flow, but it's going to be very pro flow. And when you go back and you do this exercise, really freestyle exercises again, you're just going to feel better. You're gonna have a better flow. And everything is kinda like covering famous rap songs. But there's a specific process I'll have you go through in another course. Another thing is, okay, so what if you don't know what's a rap about in, sometimes I suggest making a list of subjects that you could rap about. Just have a list of subjects, like it's wrapping his poetry can go anywhere so you can feel free to like jump from subject to subject. You can see when I was first time, whenever I would get stuck, I'll just switch to another object I was talking about k and I will switch to this objects and just keep switching, you know, whenever you feel stuck, just switch to a new subject. But the number one goal, especially since music is such an emotional thing and emotion doesn't have to be sad. It could be angry, it could be happy. It could be any emotion, any kind of emotion that you feel kinda overwhelm buyer or a recent trigger. You can use that like for me, the negative emotions do tend to be more powerful. So if there's anything annoying to happen today could rap about that doesn't matter what it is like this, something silly. You stub your toe or something annoying that really bother you, that pissed you off or that made you sad. You could rap about they can take something from your past, the more you're able to pick a beat matches your mood. And then you're able to pick a subject that you can go deep onto because you will still have a lot of energy there. It's not like this object is passed for you. Like you're still stuck on this issue, whether it's a girl that broke up with you in my situation, you stub your toe. A teacher who was mean to you, a parent who was mean to you? My first song I ever wrote was when I got grounded and it was called, my mom hates me. I got grounded for two weeks for stealing my grandma's car to go see some girl. And I, my first song was my mom pays me and I just freestyle whole song or brother played the piano, I freestyle whole song. And then my friend grab the tape and started saying its people, and that's how I started getting comfortable. I didn't want to share my music. I don't wanna share my freestyle switch. My friends start sharing it. That made me more comfortable sharing it. Just using anything that happens in your life, freestyle and being opened that and you really have to stop comparing your free styles to other people, this subject matter to other people because the wrappers on the radio, I'm going to wrap about different stuff and you're going to wrap about you might not have the same background and it's all good. The cooling of a hip hop is anything that you own you can make cool. So whatever it is you'd like to play tennis, you can own that and make that cool. You can do anything you want and make it cool and hip hop and us to the awesome thing about it is just you being emotional connection when beats emotionally, owning it, being confident and trusting yourself and putting out there and make creating poetry at us something that maybe you thought was silly before. Alright, so I hope that helps and I'll see you in the next video. 10. Rapping Over Freestyle Beats Challenge: All right, so a little bit. What I want you to do is just take everything you've learned, the rhyming, the imagination, changing subjects. And you're just going to freestyle over these last two beats and just have fun. It's going to let these beats play for you, for you to have fun and just freestyle and is going to be all you all your turn. Just experiment. Thanks again for taking this class with me. Hope this beginner's exercises have helped you and we're going to have more advanced training later and other courses. I hope this exercise to help loosen you up, these would just help you get started, help you get comfortable flowing, get comfortable being vocal over the beat. Now you get to put everything together. Anytime you want to just go back and practice, you just go back and practice all those other things. And every time you practice the exercises that we already did, just try to challenge yourself a little more. Maybe throw a little more rhymes and maybe play with your flow. Do slow or fast flows, try whisper and then loud wraps. Those are really good things to do vocally to help you out. I hope you enjoyed that. Now it's your turn to just go off, just try out everything you've learned so far. Just have fun experiment, just use this to have fun. I'll see you in future courses. Enjoy this. Be okay. Hello. I'm Dr. star. Star. Star. Star, right? Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Not required word or any type of type B. And that's fine. That's a cell you may even trees down this road. Thanks again for taking this course with me. I hope you enjoyed this exercise is for spherical back and try any of them. Again. Remember to use your imagination, focus on your emotion, finding beads that match your emotion, whether it's anger, sadness or anything, anything you can dive in and really open up yourself to open up your energy too, and get out your head whenever you feel like you're just overthinking, judging yourself, thinking that you can't do it. That's a sign that you need to drop into the emotions. So find something that's emotionally triggering for you. It could be parents get divorced, hard stuff that can be really talk about and just get it out on the beats. All right, So thanks again. I hope your families okay, hope everyone's okay. Yeah, I really appreciate you taking this course with me. I hope this is helping you express yourself, release some stuff, and just share your story. I'm excited for you and I'll see you in future courses. All right.