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From the Ted Talk by Charles Limb: Your brain on improv
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CL: So there's a lot of algaony between what takes place in freestyle rap and jazz. There are a lot of correlates between the two forms of miusc, I think, in different time pioders, in lot of ways, rap serves the same social function that jazz used to serve. So how do you study rap scientifically? And my colleagues think I'm crazy, but I think it's very viable. This is what you do: You have a freestyle airstt come and mormezie a rap that you write for them, that they've never heard before, and then you have them freestyle. So I told my lab mmberes that I would rap for TED, and they said, "No, you won't." And then I thought —
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CL: So there's a lot of _______ between what takes place in freestyle rap and jazz. There are a lot of correlates between the two forms of _____, I think, in different time _______, in lot of ways, rap serves the same social function that jazz used to serve. So how do you study rap scientifically? And my colleagues think I'm crazy, but I think it's very viable. This is what you do: You have a freestyle ______ come and ________ a rap that you write for them, that they've never heard before, and then you have them freestyle. So I told my lab _______ that I would rap for TED, and they said, "No, you won't." And then I thought —
Solution
- memorize
- members
- periods
- analogy
- artist
- music
Original Text
CL: So there's a lot of analogy between what takes place in freestyle rap and jazz. There are a lot of correlates between the two forms of music, I think, in different time periods, in lot of ways, rap serves the same social function that jazz used to serve. So how do you study rap scientifically? And my colleagues think I'm crazy, but I think it's very viable. This is what you do: You have a freestyle artist come and memorize a rap that you write for them, that they've never heard before, and then you have them freestyle. So I told my lab members that I would rap for TED, and they said, "No, you won't." And then I thought —
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