Members Shart Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Do you cover any rap songs with an acoustic guitar. I'm considering adding a couple into the setlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members homemade Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 it's not on acoustic guitar, but check out ben folds' cover of "bitches ain't {censored}" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shart Posted February 14, 2007 Author Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Just checked it out on itunes. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members homemade Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 I've heard things like this done before, they can sound really cool or really bad, not much in between. good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bigby Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Gone Going by the Blackeyed Peas (written by Jack Johnson) is a pretty cool hip-hop acoustic tune... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamesp Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Not a guitar, but still... Joe represents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dmn23 Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Jonathan Coulton's version of Baby Got Back is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 2ifbyC Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 rap songs "rap songs" = oxymoron !!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shart Posted February 14, 2007 Author Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Yeah i guess you're right. Gimme some straight up rap dogg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarist21 Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Shart- I've heard rap performed well accompanied by acoustic guitar. Check out my friend Andy Scheer (http://www.myspace.com/andyscheermusic) and listen to "Drop Love." He performs it by himself and it works very well. I would recommend having a little tonality in your voice (not just talking). Ellen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 2ifbyC Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 Check out my friend Andy Scheer Ellen Ellen, No slam by any means, I percieve a Bob Dylan influence, especially on some of his other tracks. Actually I like the 'rawness' (?) and 'honesty'. But in my opinion, that's not rap due to his intonations and the harmony. Am I wrong? (Won't be the first time!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shart Posted February 14, 2007 Author Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 What about bluegrass versions of rock songs? I know somebody did ACDC bluegrass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members denvertrakker Posted February 14, 2007 Members Share Posted February 14, 2007 What about bluegrass versions of rock songs? I know somebody did ACDC bluegrass Run C&W (actually more-or-less Russell Smith) did bluegrass versions of soul. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hamhand Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 Jonathan Coulton's version of Baby Got Back is brilliant. That's a nice melody. Certainly not rap as I've come to hate. (I gotta listen to the crap in the middle of the night til I get up and tell 'em to knock it off). I think treating women as pieces of meat to be had like a party favor is stupid. Why waste your talent making up lyrics like that. Old fashioned I know, but with a 15 year old daughter at home I've reshaped my thinking a little over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brahmz118 Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 Ellen, No slam by any means, I percieve a Bob Dylan influence, especially on some of his other tracks. Actually I like the 'rawness' (?) and 'honesty'. But in my opinion, that's not rap due to his intonations and the harmony. Am I wrong? (Won't be the first time!) I hear the Dylan influence too, especially on Promise Land. But I agree with Ellen that Drop Love could be considered rap-like. The guy won't be confused with 50 Cent anytime soon, though the lyrics remind me a bit of the middle verse of the Black Eyed Peas' Where is the Love, or even Fred Durst's verse in the What's Goin' On AIDS tribute. Personally I think there's a huge middleground between rap and not-rap, and I'm sure there are quite a few acoustic musicians who could fit in that crossover area. Lauryn Hill raps and sings on her MTV Unplugged album. Jason Mraz does some fairly melodic rapping on Curbside Prophet (with a banjo helping to keep the rhythm!). Dave Matthews has a rap-like bridge in Ants Marching. John Popper of Blues Traveler crams a lot of rapid-fire syllables into the Pachelbel Canon chord progression at the end of Hook. Popper also uses some slow rap-like inflections in one of his ballads, Alone. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones do an odd rap version of The Ballad of Jed Clampet. About a year ago I actually transcribed Eminem's Lose Yourself for violin and guitar. It was for a Name That Tune segment for a closed-circuit TV program. It was all in D minor. Even without the backing music, a lot of rap is often in a key. In that song Drop Love, on Ellen's friend's page, he's staying well within F minor pentatonic. It's just up to the guitarist to figure out a way to use the rhythmic and harmonic possibilities of the instrument to fit in. I would think that with all the tappers out there, someone must be trying it with rap lyrics, and hopefully creating something good. There's probably plenty of bad stuff too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members knockwood Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 Don't know of any commercial pieces off hand, but of course I back up my own dope rhymes on git. -Master K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarist21 Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 Ellen, No slam by any means, I percieve a Bob Dylan influence, especially on some of his other tracks. Actually I like the 'rawness' (?) and 'honesty'. But in my opinion, that's not rap due to his intonations and the harmony. Am I wrong? (Won't be the first time!) No, no, man, you're absolutely right. I should have clarified. Mostly what I was pointing to was the phrasing of the lyrics and the way they were set up. There's a few rhythms that he sings which are generally more common to rap music than to what is known as "acoustic" music. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm glad you all listened to this guy! He's quite good. I've played a few shows with him and he is a fantastic songwriter. Ellen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eor Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 nina gordon did a wonderful cover of nwa's straight out of compton. look it up, you won't be sorry. love,eor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theGOOCH Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 Jonathan Coulton's version of Baby Got Back is brilliant. That's my theme song! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theGOOCH Posted February 15, 2007 Members Share Posted February 15, 2007 ....I remember LL Cool J's performance of "Mama Said Knock you out" on MTV unplugged years ago sounded pretty hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cripes Posted February 16, 2007 Members Share Posted February 16, 2007 Do a rap version of Paul Simon's Me and Julio Down by the School Yard. Works really, really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CosmicArp Posted February 16, 2007 Members Share Posted February 16, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=608RHxcgFsU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members uncle psychosis Posted February 16, 2007 Members Share Posted February 16, 2007 nina gordon did a wonderful cover of nwa's straight out of compton. look it up, you won't be sorry. love, eor +1. It's awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rock_and_roll Posted February 16, 2007 Members Share Posted February 16, 2007 I remember seeing a rap version of the beatles 'come together' accompanied on acoustic guitar on tv a while ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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