[Harp-L] Re: swingin 16ths

[JON KIP <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ALL of this can be replaced by listening... no words, just listening to someone playing in the style you want to emulate..

MIcro Managing your rhythms won't work... Macro managing them , seeing the bigger picture, might work better.

Lots of people can swing, and NONE of them learned it by reading words. Words will not work.

IF you find you can't correctly emulate your chosen players' rhythmic style,  then listen some more....you'll get it, or you won't. Some people never get it, but these days, even string sections know how to swing, even the violas. They didn't learn by somebody using words at them.

while the usual harmonica player doesn't get a chance to play, say , as part of a sax section, playing with others is a good way to learn to swing

And no , I'm not suggesting that five harmonica players and a rhythm section playing five part SuperSax charts would be helpful, well, it would be helpful, but I'd want to be in a different city when they did it...


On Apr 3, 2014, at 3:49 PM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think of a beat as 100 points.
> 
> 8th notes are at the 0% and the 50%, then the beginning of the next beat
> being the next 0%.
> 
> Most often, swung eighth notes have the  upbeat at 66%.
> 
> 66% divided by 2 is 33%.
> 
> 16ths notes are at 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and then the beginning of the next
> beat is the next 0%.
> 
> I place swung 16th notes loosely at 0%, 33%, 50% and 83%.

jon kip
http://jonkip.com

player of music, mostly written by dead people and played on a toy that everybody's Uncle except my nephew's has the good sense to keep safely out of sight in a drawer.