M2M Day 325: I’m building my own tools for freestyle rap training
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For September, my goal is to continuously freestyle rap for three minutes.
Two days ago, I mentioned randomwordgenerator.com, my favorite site for, well, generating random words, is no longer functional. As a result, I’ve tried to find other websites that are equally as good for training, but I haven’t yet found anything that is as useful.
Thus, I decided that I might as well build my own website for freestyle rap training.
I haven’t fully acted on this idea yet, so we’ll see if it actually happens, but I did take the first step, compiling a list of the 10,000 most common words in the English language.
When I say “I compiled a list of the 10,000 most common words in the English language”, what I actually mean to say is “I found this great Github repository, where someone else has compiled a list of the 10,000 most common words in the English language”.
Not only that, but they’ve broken this list into three sub-lists of short words (1–4 characters), medium words (5–8 characters), and long words (9+ characters).
I’m only interested in the medium and long words, which together are 7,717 words, so I’ve deleted the short words from my list.
The next step is to identify the number of syllables in each of these 7,717 words, so I can parametrized my tool in this way.
Until then though, here is my very first freestyle based on the top handful of words on the list:
I’m not sure exactly what the end result of this mini-project will be, but I should have a few minutes each day to work on it, so stayed tuned…
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