Moderato· 90 BPM · bars first

Hip-hop Verses

Sixteen-bar verses with a flow you can feel and rhyme inside the line. Eight song shapes, twenty exercises and one of our own verses taken apart.

$14print · tablet · Google Docs

What makes it hip-hop

1
Bars, counted
Four beats a bar, sixteen bars a verse. Count before you write.
2
Flow
Where the syllables land matters as much as what they say.
3
Rhyme inside the line
Internal and multi-syllable rhyme carry the verse between the line ends.

Verse–hook
Sixteen bars, then an eight-bar hook.
48 bars in all.
Three verses
Three verses, each with its own job: set up, turn, land.
64 bars in all.
With a bridge
A change of flow before the last hook.
40 bars in all.

+ five more in the collection.

$14

Story verses, plain words.

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Hooks, pre-choruses, the lift.

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Bundle · repeat with everything

All three collections plus the Starter Kit. If you write in more than one style, this is the one.

Price: $59instead of $71 apart

Hip-hop Verses$14