Bars in Rap Music

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Now we?re going to go in to your, first off before we go any further in to anything. Writing any kind of verses we?re going to discuss bars. Here goes the thing about bars. There measures there counts. I use to think that a bar was every two rhyme words when ever I was young and that's wrong. Cause sixteen bar verses then was turned into thirty two bar verses it's a measure. Like depending on the speed of the beat will be the measure. But let?s just say it's a regular tempo beat like, once again were going to go back to my favorite analogy. Fifty Cent. When I pull up out front you see the Benz on dulls, when I roll twenty deep it's all we drum in the club now then I roll with Dre all the girls show me love when you sell like M and M all the groupies will show you a. That's four bars. Cause it was in his rhyme words. You see what I'm saying? Like if you want to go back, I'm trying to thing about some other things that I can really, cursing down the street, in my six four, clocking it, jocking it, you see what I'm saying that was two bars. But this way, but you know sometimes the beat might be quicker sometimes it might be like, man I'm all about that money, these people thing it's funny, I telling about that honey. See what I'm saying? But it's still got to be a measure. See what I'm saying? You know what I'm Saying? So when you find your bars, this way you know exactly what you?re going through and you know the average song has sixteen bar verses. But if you trying to keep it interesting you want to just do what you feel. I know people that have spent sixteen?s on the first verse. Twelve?s on the second verse and did eight bar bridges on the third verse. So people that did sixteen, sixteen, sixteen. People that have don two twenty four bar verses. But as a radio expert. I would tell you all to try to keep your verses between twelve and sixteen bars. Never really go over just to keep it really soft. Any were twelve is really is phenomenal. Because it keeps you in that line in that realm of of things. And that's how you write bars.

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