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  • There we go.

  • 1, 2, 3, go.

  • If I can't talk verbally to you--

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • --my music can.

  • Oh, that's dope.

  • [MUSIC - JAY-Z, "DIRT OFF YOUR SHOULDER"]

  • It's all about your energy, what you put into the record.

  • (RAPPING)

  • The beat has to be infectious first.

  • (RAPPING)

  • You gonna learn about filling, vocals, software.

  • [SINGS BEAT]

  • We're gonna talk about some of my hits.

  • "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" is three instruments.

  • You're going to learn about how I can take something simple

  • and make it complex.

  • You don't need a big old studio to do what you need to do.

  • You can do this on your own if you have

  • your computer and your mic.

  • Watch this.

  • [BEAT PLAYING]

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • I start from scratch making a beat with my mouth.

  • [SINGING TUNE]

  • Melody.

  • Beat.

  • [BEATS]

  • Cymbals.

  • Then I can duplicate it on a drum machine.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • This will be the idea.

  • Use it as a template and create around it.

  • Hey.

  • See, the feeling is getting there.

  • Now, I have to go in the booth.

  • (SINGING)

  • There's no thought process.

  • It's all about having fun.

  • That's dope.

  • (SINGING)

  • Stop.

  • You see what the feeling made me do?

  • That's what it should do to you.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • I want to give all the knowledge that I can give.

  • That's what I'm here on Earth to do.

  • We have so much available to us that it's all

  • in you, in what you want to do.

  • If you love it that much, it's gonna happen.

  • I'm Timbaland, and this is my MasterClass.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

There we go.

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