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Mesmerising! I can't read ASL, but her dancing, facial expressions and air piano are really engaging. I'd love to see here do translation for hip-hop shows more often. I watched a second time just to see if I could figure out a bit of the ASL. I suspect she's paraphrasing, at least for a lot of the slang.

So, devils advocate: what is the point of signing music? Presumably the majority of people this is aimed at are deaf, and can't hear the melody. Ok, you can get the lyrics and the rhythm, but that's not really the music is it?

*dance - and that's one way to sign a record deal.

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Beethoven did it.

I'm wondering if anyone who knows ASL could verify that she's actually signing what he raps, paraphrasing it, or just translating a small part of it. To me, not knowing ASL at all, it looks like she's skipping a lot that he says.

Just because you have to rely on sign language doesn't mean you can't hear any sound at all.
Also, sound is essentialy a form of vibration. Ever stood in front of the speakers at a Motorhead concert? You can feel the music, trust me.

What interests me: at the beginning of the video, before Eminem starts rapping, does she sign something like 'piano music, piano music, piano music'?

My ex-girlfriend got into music more than anyone on the dance floor. What was best is that I could follow her but cannot really follow others. If you can't tell, she was deaf, I am not.

Looks a little like shorthand sign language.





Ya. I went there.

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Shelby Mitchusson Responds To ASL ‘Lose Yourself’ Video
http://www.ibtimes.com/shelby-mitchusson-responds-asl-lose-yourself-video-thanks-fans-facebook-post-1943310

Also more shelby rockin it https://youtu.be/M7TlXZ5dD1k

Gettin down live https://youtu.be/oNUJ4dWy7DM

My sister is deaf. I know enough ASL to know this woman is truly exceptionally skilled. Not only is it accurate but also beautifully interpreted. Those of you who know more than one language know that it is never possible to directly translate almost anything. In the case of english to ASL, expressions that we may use a dozen words for are condensed into perhaps half as many signs or even less in some cases. For this song, conveying Eminem's eloquent phrasing is ASL takes an impressive amount of artistic skill beyond just having the vocabulary. Massive props.

Thanks for the info. Thanks for the video, Shelby Mitchusson, keep producing awesome sign language interpretations!

You'd find yourself quite wrong.
A deaf person can feel the music. Turn it up and the vibrations are there, the beat and the tones.

It's just the words that are lost, and this type of interpretation brings it together. Above that, it's also not just the words, but the attitude and facial expressions which convey a strong feeling to the message of the music.

She is signing the words for the most part.
But like with many translations, it can't be verbatim.

Sign uses a different grammar structure. Sure, they have all the needed grammar necessary, but it's pieced together differently. A lot of Sign is about the sentiment that is being communicated.

As with slang in English, there is also slang in Sign and it's a large part of what is being translated.