Do you really get better at rapping if you practice?
If you want to rap there are basically 3 main components: 1 - You have to be able to rap anytime meaning that you need to be able to rap on the spot, freestyle or battle. This is probably the hardest bit and this definitely requires practice. Try to be rapping in your head all the time about anything. When I'm with mates sometimes we just start making stuff up and joining in maybe you could try this. You say you'll run out of lyrical material but you are wrong, by practicing like this your brain will be able to think of rhymes quicker and you'll start learn certain words that go together or possibly repeat bits (not whole lines). Eventually you'll be able to think of stuff on the spot, what I call the 'rapper's brain'. 2 - You have to be able to write. These bars have to be more interesting than freestyles with good lyrics about stuff you feel passionate about - NOT money and sex! This is the more technical part that does not require rapping all the time (but still do that to get the 'rapper's brain') but researching wordplay. Read other rap song lyrics and study them and listen to good rap from the 90s, not mainstream chart stuff. If you can rap like the old-school hip-hoppers then you'll get far. Try to do more than just a standard rhyme. Look up multisyllabic rhyming, try to rhyme every half-verse and learn to bend words to rhyme. Eminem is good at this wordplay (well used to be) and listen to Immortal Technique to learn how to handle complex lyrics. 3 - You must be able to rap in beat on the beat, i.e. have a good flow. If you have no flow you can forget the other two pointers because you'll have no chance. This is the only component that some already have when rapping or is a natural skill but can be learned. To learn this just rap on top of songs and keep doing it.Learning to keep in-time when rapping acapella is great practice. Here is a video of a British rapper called Akala doing a freestyle, I think it's very inspirational and he shows talent in all these areas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsZZ8caB5dw
I Really Want To Be A Singer?
Look what you need to do to get there, you need to post some covers on youtube. Do anything to get noticed! Such as going out in the street and singing some of your favorite songs, if not songs that are really popular such as Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, etc. That's what I'm doing right now because I have the same ambition and goals as you. I do covers of my favorite songs, and post them on youtube. Take a look at my channel; http://www.youtube.com/user/THEPRANKCALL... For the last few weeks I've been posting the same link on many blogs, sites, and places just to get noticed. And if you don't know how to play an instrument I suggest to start right away. Playing instruments and singing at the same time is what those record producers really want. I taught myself how to play guitar through youtube videos, and I also am in the school band because I want to learn more about music and instruments. All the different types of styles influence me and my music. It should be the same with you. I'm only a year older than you and I know what you're going through right now. Just take everything step by step and I'm sure you'll get there before you know it. :) Oh and another thing I almost forgot, never tell yourself that you can't do it or you can't make it. Your just like everyone else if not better. So never put yourself in a lower state, I dont care what anyone says never put yourself down. Put yourself higher than the rest. Confidence comes a long ways as famous musician. :) I hope this helps.
Difference between litterary ballad and folk ballad?
folk ballad - description The traditional folk ballad, sometimes called the Child ballad in deference to Francis Child, the scholar who compiled the definitive English collection, is the standard kind of folk ballad in English and is the type of balladry that this section is mainly concerned with. But there are peripheral kinds of ballads that must also be noticed in order to give a survey of balladry. http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-21210... Definition: The ballad is a form of short poem that is often passed down from one generation to the next (in what was first intended to be a melodic, or singing tradition). The earliest forms of the ballad are known as folk ballads. http://classiclit.about.com/od/literaryt... Literary ballads are those composed and written formally. The form, with its connotations of simple folkloric authenticity, became popular with the rise of Romanticism in the late 18th century. Literary ballads may then be set to music, as Schubert's Der Erlkö*** and The Hostage, set to a literary ballads by Goethe (see also Der Zauberlehrling) and Schiller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_ba...
I really hate the sound of my voice?
1) Recordings always decrease clarity and worsen the talent in one's voice (if they have any) unless it is being recorded in a recording studio, like if you were making an album. Never trust a webcam, P&S camera, or phone recording or something. It's lying. Other times it makes you sound better, but again, you can never really be sure. 2) If, when you sing, you run out of air and your stomach is compressing, you're doing it right. You should be running out of air from your stomach, not your throat. It should feel like you took a big breath of air and you're pushing it out from your stomach. It does take practice, so look up breathing exercises as it can be hard to explain by typing :) Hope I helped :D
What does it mean to cover a song? Does it mean to sing the song with a karaoke or change the tune and beat?
As others have said, it basically means to do your own version of someone else’s song.It may interest you to know, though, that the original meaning was to record your own version of a current hit record. In the earlier days of the record industry, it was common for there to be several competing versions of the same song. If one big band on one record label was having a hit with a song, other labels would record their own version. Sometimes different versions would be done for different audiences—a pop version, a country version, a rhythm and blues version, and so on. The competing versions were said to cover different parts of the market, or sometimes try to cover the same part, which gave birth to the term.When rock and roll began reaching the mainstream in the mid-1950s, the older guard of the music industry continued this practice. So pop acts such as Pat Boone (“Ain't That A Shame”, “Tutti Frutti”), Georgia Gibbs (“Tweedlee Dee”), The Crew Cuts (“Sh-Boom”), The McGuire Sisters (“Sincerely”), Gale Storm ("I Hear You Knockin’”) and others scored major hits with their versions of key early rock and roll songs, usually getting more airplay on the radio than the originals. Although there were a few cases of rockers doing this to each other (such as Bill Haley’s take on Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle & Roll”), generally rock performers did not like this practice. Rock & rollers had much more of a sense that a song belonged to the artist who made it famous (and often wrote it), and it certainly wasn't lost on anyone that the result was often to give white artists hits with black artists’ songs (which was true in all the cases I mentioned above). For this reason, as rock and roll and its offshoots became the dominant music on the pop charts, this type of cover became more unusual. It never completely went away, and it survives now with artists uploading their own versions of hit songs to streaming and digital music services, especially when the original isn't available on a particular service. But it hasn't been a big part if the music industry in more than half a century, which left the term “cover” open to be applied to a new version of anyone else's song, even a very old one.
Is the key to rap letting your tongue loose?
Delivery can determine tone, quality, and even make you stand out as a rapper. Delivery is also subject to changes in trends and preferences. The delivery of Run DMC was more like a cadence, but now that type of deliver his never used. It seems outdated. What I'm getting at is that the current trend in delivery is laid back and not really annunciating all the sounds. But hey maybe annunciation sounds good with you.