Hip-Hop Quotes
"The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it’s like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it’ll be a hip-hop song. That’s the only music you can do that with."
-Talib Kweli
"The aesthetic should always serve a moral purpose - it’s what’s called artistic responsibility. The French writer Albert Camus and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre followed this idea, and I want to do the same"
-Abd Al Malik
"Hip-hop culture isn’t about causing harm for no reason. In a way it’s an artistic arms-control agreement"
-Baba Brinkman
"Hip-hop is the only electric current of culture. It’s the only thing that reflects what young people really feel."
-Sylwester Latkowski
Class Sessions
1- INTRODUCTION
2- Note and Rest Values
3- The Eighth Note
4- GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS
5- Drum Machines
6- Putting It All Together
7- Quarter Notes On The Hi-hats
8- Sixteenth Notes
9- Playing The Open Hi-Hats
10- Sixteenth Note Triplets
11- Sixteenths On The Hi-hats
12- Sixteenth Notes On The Bass Drum
13- Different Hi-hat Sounds
14- Dotted Eighth Notes
15- Hip-Hop Quotes
16- Combining Eighth And Sixteenth Notes
17- A Universal Drum Beat
18- Ghost Notes
19- Bass Drum Variations
20- Using The Ride Cymbal
21- Learning From Recordings