Project Description

Course Description

Hip-Hop – Writing Bars and Choruses with Schemes is a 1-hour course designed for teachers to learn how to engage in lyric writing with students. Dr. Cooper teams up with hip-hop artist SoSoon to teach you about “schemes” as a way to write clever lyrics, learn basic exercises to find flow and rhyme scheme, and get tips for engaging students in rapping and performing choruses in the classroom. A PDF of ideas for getting students started with recording and writing bars will be available for download and can be used as a classroom handout.