Victoria Isom

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Mid-Term Presentation Outline Draft 1

1. Hip Hop Music Production
a. Victoria Isom
b. Independent Study Mentorship Multidisciplinary
c. Spring 2016
d. Mentor: Will Stephens
e. Teacher: Mrs. Kristi Click
f. Site: TheLab45
g. *Some information in this presentation may come from outside sources
2. What is ISM?
a. Independent Study Mentorship
b. Students shadow a mentor of a chosen career path
c. 2 hr/week
d. Activity Logs & Journal Entries
e. ISM Activities
i. Poster Project
ii. Mentor Interviews
iii. Survey Brochure
3. Weebly Page
a. Toriisom.weebly.com
4. Mentor Information
a. Mr. Will Stephens
b. Lead Engineer at TheLab45
c. Professor at San Jacinto College
d. Sound Producer at Clear Lake Presbeterian Church
5. TheLab45
a. Two locations
i. Dixie Farm and 45
b. Client contacts through Wills phone or email
c. Charges $25/hr or $30/hr (soon to be $45)
d. ProTools and Apple
e. Clients
i. Local rappers
ii. Screamo artists
iii. Singers
6. ProTools
a. Industry grade recording software
b. Different tracks for different portions of the song
7. Anatomy of a Hip Hop Song
a. Beat
b. Verse
c. Hook
d. Bridge
e. Unders
f. Ad-Libs
8. Relating to Music Theory

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9. Chords
10. Keys
11. Chords
12. Melodies
13. Roman Numerals
14. Common Progressions
15. Beat
a. Uploaded from Youtube or created by client
i. Youtubetomp3.com
b. Chord structure within the beats
c. Recognizable beats and their structure
16. Verse
a. Usually begin most rap songs
b. Contains most of the meaning of the song
i. Telling a story
ii. Promoting an idea
iii. Releasing a feeling
iv. Creating an image
c. On average 2 verses per song
17. Hook
a. Common for guest to be brought in
b. Melodic idea emphasized (as opposed to the verse)
18. Bridge
19. Unders
a. Provide musical interest
b. Harmonies and nonchord tones
c. Emphasizing particular words or ideas
20. Ad-Lib
a. Vocal sound effects
b. Fill empty spaces/beats
c. Sounds more so than words
21. Hip Hop to Other Genre Connections
22. Product
a. Record and produce a song
i. Mostefa Sheikhi
b. Annotate an appropriate music to pair with song
c. Create a compilation of Houston stock images to play with produced song
23. Conclusion
a. Despite sounding completely different Hip Hop music shares similarity with
classical, pop and rock genres.
b. Songs are so varied because of the different creative processes and reasons for
creating
c. A sound engineer isnt meant to change the idea, but alter the music to fit the idea
better.
24. Thank you!
a. Thanks to my evaluators for taking the time to watch my presentation.

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b. Thanks to my teacher Mrs. Kristi Click for giving me this opportunity.

c. Thanks to my mentor Mr. Will Stephens for allowing to shadow him every week.
i. And a shoutout to Sara Kincaid for getting me this connection.
25. Works Cited

Slides 7-13 and 17 will be expanded upon as I do more research on my topic. I

wanted to include them in the outline so I would have a better idea on the structure of
my final presentation. I will also add examples from well-known songs to illustrate
the popular musical devices that many artists use.