Play With Your Rhythm: Swing

An examination of an elusive but crucial rhythm concept.

[weirdmary]

Wow this series is one of the best on youtube. It was so helpful and full of information you have to spend hours with books to getsomething close to it. Thank you so much!!!!

[allanhillery-jones]

I stumbled across these videos by accident and have to say what a great series. I can honestly say I have learned more in these seventy minutes than I have in months of wading through theory books! Thank you, thank you.

[hv]

Thank you for this. The format of this whole series is perfect. A little theory, a little visualization, perfect and plenty examples, all the while not losing sight of the big picture which is what we are all here for.

[NeverduskX]

This channel explains music to me better than any resource I've stumbled upon on the internet. Everything is impossibly easy to absorb. The low views on these videos are criminal compared to how many people would benefit from watching them.

[z-em]

After 10 years of musical learning i finally understood how to use swing. Thanks a lot sir!

[siggiwendlinger]

Great explanation! Should have discovered this 5yrs ago

[RIVA]

Another incredible presentation! Not only did I learn about swing but also some important legendary music, thanks again!!

[VoxJ]

Thanks for this series! Explained extremely well and a joy to watch. Inspirational!

[Digaft]

Bravo! at last found the basics of Drum patterns very nicely explained. This is brilliant and thank you so much making these videos.

[wildtextilestudio]

Oh my god, I'm so impressed and inspired! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Can't wait to try this on Ableton

[krnflks]

I always liked to think of basic swing as being almost polyrhythmic. If you take a hat pattern that's playing a straight 16th note triplet pattern and remove the hits between the first and third hit, you'll get a swing pattern. If you take a straight 13th note pattern and take out all the hits but the first and last, you'll get that "drunk" feel shuffle pattern. Doing this with any straight pattern will yield a different swing feel.

[CraftyOldGit]

A very helpful series which deserves a much wider audience.

[larrygoodman]

Thanks for doing these. Very informative and well done.

[dfhwze]

Research has shown drummers tend to go from light to hard swing as tempo of a song increases. I like the 5:3 swing, it's in between light and medium swing and it syncs well with eights.

[SAZIZMUSIC]

This channel is great. You explain very well. Thanks for all the information.

[atodac]

It would be great if you could finish off this series with a video on dynamics.

[SuperDallasTV]

Your not a good teacher. You are a GREAT TEACHER!!! Great video series! I subscribed!

[visionx]

I find playing with guys that are good at swing to be the most exhilarating part about playing music.The question is, how much should you vary swing from phrase to phrase, if at all. And still stay coherent. Because it can get predictable like anything else. An unexpected change in swing really makes you hold onto your hat and move your feet!

[jeffrick]

Stevie ray Vaughn pride and joy is a really good example of extreme swing

[vj]

Someone let this mans make a Master Class id watch it!