Swing Rhythm Explained - Music Theory
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Date: 2022-03-28
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Peter
Hi - I just came across your video and really enjoyed it. If I can quickly give you my background....My late father introduced me to swing music when I was 8 (now 60) with the likes of Glenn Miller and -In the mood- -Chattanooga- -String of pearls- etc way before I played any instruments. Although I didn't realise it, that swing rhythm was embedding itself in my brain. The net result, I have been a -Jazzer- (sounds better than a -swinger- lol) for the past 50 years. So to my point. Everything I do is by ear and when I try to share the swing feel with others, I can't seem to write it out in a more simplistic way than notation. I like the way you explained it in bunches of 3. So what if I were to create a bar with 12 blank boxes and put a tick in the ones where a note is to be played? - would that be technically correct, or would it be too rigid like your dotted Quaver example? I would really appreciate your help with this if you have time to respond. Thank you, Peter.
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Hi - I just came across your video and really enjoyed it. If I can quickly give you my background....My late father introduced me to swing music when I was 8 (now 60) with the likes of Glenn Miller and -In the mood- -Chattanooga- -String of pearls- etc way before I played any instruments. Although I didn't realise it, that swing rhythm was embedding itself in my brain. The net result, I have been a -Jazzer- (sounds better than a -swinger- lol) for the past 50 years. So to my point. Everything I do is by ear and when I try to share the swing feel with others, I can't seem to write it out in a more simplistic way than notation. I like the way you explained it in bunches of 3. So what if I were to create a bar with 12 blank boxes and put a tick in the ones where a note is to be played? - would that be technically correct, or would it be too rigid like your dotted Quaver example? I would really appreciate your help with this if you have time to respond. Thank you, Peter.
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MBF
Good evening! I just listened at you explanation and I do understand it intellectually very well. As I did classic singing, my difficulty is now to sing with the swing. I feel the 2 and 4 by dancing or claping in the hands, but I am not able to add the voice...and as I -controll- these chalenge, the result is that the tempo dicrease and dicrease until music stops...What would you suggest? Marianne from Nice/South of France (excuse me for my so so english...)
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Good evening! I just listened at you explanation and I do understand it intellectually very well. As I did classic singing, my difficulty is now to sing with the swing. I feel the 2 and 4 by dancing or claping in the hands, but I am not able to add the voice...and as I -controll- these chalenge, the result is that the tempo dicrease and dicrease until music stops...What would you suggest? Marianne from Nice/South of France (excuse me for my so so english...)
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Raul
So in this swing example, the quarter note is played normally.Only the pair of eighth notes are affected by the swing instruction? Also, why wouldn't the swing instruction be -two eighth notes = dotted eighth + sixteenth-?
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So in this swing example, the quarter note is played normally.Only the pair of eighth notes are affected by the swing instruction? Also, why wouldn't the swing instruction be -two eighth notes = dotted eighth + sixteenth-?
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education
Physical strength is a major factor -to keep right on that beat and not make it even harder by dragging . Strength can only be gained over time and it changes as with time . Thank you Gareth for all your lessons .
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Physical strength is a major factor -to keep right on that beat and not make it even harder by dragging . Strength can only be gained over time and it changes as with time . Thank you Gareth for all your lessons .
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Odysseus
From a jazz musician's point of view I would say: it depends on the tempo of a tune, whether you interpret the written notes as dotted eights or rather with a triplet feeling.
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From a jazz musician's point of view I would say: it depends on the tempo of a tune, whether you interpret the written notes as dotted eights or rather with a triplet feeling.
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jasonjjj27
Thank you so much for this video, so instead of counting 1&2&3&4 in my head i'll be counting 123 123 123 123 in my head. I'm going to give it some practice. TY so much. :)
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Thank you so much for this video, so instead of counting 1&2&3&4 in my head i'll be counting 123 123 123 123 in my head. I'm going to give it some practice. TY so much. :)
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Benjy
Regular straight rhythm : sitting in your chair a correct position drinking tea or a fine wine. Swing rhythm: laying back in a recliner while sipping a beer.
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Regular straight rhythm : sitting in your chair a correct position drinking tea or a fine wine. Swing rhythm: laying back in a recliner while sipping a beer.
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Francisco
Thank you so much for this I really appreciate it. I was super confused from a written explanation but this made it clear.-
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Thank you so much for this I really appreciate it. I was super confused from a written explanation but this made it clear.-
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josh
Thanks for that, by chance do you know if Jimi Hendrix is playing a swing rhythm alternating to 4/4 in the song little wing?
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Thanks for that, by chance do you know if Jimi Hendrix is playing a swing rhythm alternating to 4/4 in the song little wing?
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