How To Rap: How Rhyme Schemes Change Flow
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How To Rap: How Rhyme Schemes Change Flow
So I got a question about how to change your flow, as well as how that relates to the rhyme scheme. Great question, let’s start get a little deeper into flow to start with.
Flow is the rhythm behind your lyrics. In order to change your flow, you need to change your rhythm. You can think of rhythm as your pattern of sounds, like an extra instrument. When you’re matched to a beat, you need to find a rhythm that’s complementary to that instrumental, however, acappella, you can adopt the rhythm you want.
Since the underlying difference is your rhythm and that’s tied to the speed and pattern you use to deliver words, you can create multiple flows that fit the same rhyme scheme. Here’s a quick example, we’ll use an A, A rhyme scheme
No one else is compliant so why even try it
The colors are vibrant I’m fly like a pilot
Notice how you can say it two completely different ways using exactly the same scheme. The important part is your speech patterns. If you’ve built really complex schemes, it might tighten your choices a bit as you still have to fit the words into coherent patterns, but for the most part your scheme isn’t the deciding factor, it’s your pacing. If you’re having a hard time changing your flow, there’s a couple things you can try.
One is to get an instrumental with a completely different tempo than you’re used to or comfortable with. This will force you to change the flow, even if it just marginally, to stay on beat.
The other thing you can try is to make rhythm patterns BEFORE you write your lyrics. For example if you usually do do do do do, you switch to something like do-do-do do do do-do-do-do-. Then, switch out those sounds syllable by syllable until you’ve created lines. This is a time consuming process, but at the end you should have a different flow you can experiment with.
In closing, your scheme has some influence but more important is the speed and rhythm you’re using to recite your verse. I hope that helps and I appreciate the question. Keep up the good work guys.
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