This is great. Just starting out, heard 'swung' and 'straight' said in some other video and this explained it perfectly. Surprised this doesnt have 5M views tbh
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I’m just starting out and I’ve watch loads of videos and just wasn’t getting it. You explained it and it just clicked. Cheers!
Thanks so much Mike. I am a newer drummer and after a lesson with my instructor, I will send him a video of what we went over that day or week. Today he was telling me I was close, but he had a swung feel. Your example was perfect and I now know exactly what he was talking about. Thank You!!!!!
thank you thank you thank you I was practicing swing for years , just playing it out of tempo sooner and later of 1/8 and it sounded terrible and I didnt just understand how to play it and thinking its just about your soul to play it correct .I finally understand it now.thank you again sir
Great lesson mate! Thanks so much. I could totally get the difference between the straight 16s on the hi-hat, but when you swung those on the snare drum or on the kick drum, when played in a groove I must admit I couldn’t hear the difference 🙄🫤
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Thanks Mike. Great video explaining the difference. One question, straight 8th notes is 1-&-2-&-3-&-4-&. So is swung 8th note same as playing 1-a-2-a-3-a-4-a since the '&' is delayed? A bit confused about the difference between swung 8th and 1-a-2-a-3-a-4-a.
Hi Nathan, sometimes drummers will indeed count swung 8ths as "1-a-2-a" etc - but as described here, the "a" is in the position of the third partial of a triplet, not the last 16th of the beat, so I agree this count can be misleading. Sadly the counting system isn't standardardised! I'd personally count "1-&-2-&", with the "&" a bit later, like I do in this vid. Or you could even count your swung 8ths as "1-let-2-let-3-let-4-let", and in "1-trip-let, 2-trip-let, 3-trip-let, 4-trip-let". Cheers!
Thank you for this illustration. There is a YT reaction channel, Andy & Alex, where they have reacted to a lot of the '70s music that I grew up with. In dissecting a song after hearing it, they often refer to the "swung" feel of the drums, and I've wondered if they meant what, to me, sounds kind of like the rhythm of a dancer's kick step (the old-fashioned kind, like from Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire). At 1:47 in this video from the movie, "Singing in the Rain", Kelly illustrates what I'm thinking of. Thanks to your help, I know that I was right. ruclips.net/video/D1ZYhVpdXbQ/видео.html
This is great. Just starting out, heard 'swung' and 'straight' said in some other video and this explained it perfectly. Surprised this doesnt have 5M views tbh
That is exactly what I needed to see. Thank you. Subscribed
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I’m just starting out and I’ve watch loads of videos and just wasn’t getting it. You explained it and it just clicked. Cheers!
Thanks so much Mike. I am a newer drummer and after a lesson with my instructor, I will send him a video of what we went over that day or week. Today he was telling me I was close, but he had a swung feel. Your example was perfect and I now know exactly what he was talking about. Thank You!!!!!
Nice one Tom! Thanks for watching.
thank you thank you thank you
I was practicing swing for years , just playing it out of tempo sooner and later of 1/8 and it sounded terrible and I didnt just understand how to play it and thinking its just about your soul to play it correct .I finally understand it now.thank you again sir
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becoming really groovy in a day with just a different view
You are a very good teacher. Thank you.
Great lesson mate! Thanks so much. I could totally get the difference between the straight 16s on the hi-hat, but when you swung those on the snare drum or on the kick drum, when played in a groove I must admit I couldn’t hear the difference 🙄🫤
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@@MikeBarnesDrums that was brilliant! cheers mate! much appreciated!
Excellent examples mate :)
Cheers Daniel! Glad if useful.
Thank you so much! Im still struggling to hear the difference between straight and swing sixteens, but I guess I'll have to listen more times
Thanks for watching, more here that may help…
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@@MikeBarnesDrums Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Great lesson thanks:)))
This made me think of Fool in the rain!
A classic example of a half-time shuffle! 👏🏻
Thanks Mike. Great video explaining the difference. One question, straight 8th notes is 1-&-2-&-3-&-4-&. So is swung 8th note same as playing 1-a-2-a-3-a-4-a since the '&' is delayed? A bit confused about the difference between swung 8th and 1-a-2-a-3-a-4-a.
Hi Nathan, sometimes drummers will indeed count swung 8ths as "1-a-2-a" etc - but as described here, the "a" is in the position of the third partial of a triplet, not the last 16th of the beat, so I agree this count can be misleading. Sadly the counting system isn't standardardised! I'd personally count "1-&-2-&", with the "&" a bit later, like I do in this vid. Or you could even count your swung 8ths as "1-let-2-let-3-let-4-let", and in "1-trip-let, 2-trip-let, 3-trip-let, 4-trip-let". Cheers!
Thanks man greetings from chile
Alonso No worries thanks for watching! 👊🏻
6:17 this groove sounds WAY familiar isn't it?? 😏😏😏
Came to the comment section just for this comment. Was wondering if its just me or someone else is also coming to help with me 😂
the groove you played ,is that's the groove for adventure of a life time?
That one's a two-handed 16th note groove, with a bit of swing to it!
@@MikeBarnesDrums Thank you very much Barnes.I really appreciate it.👍👍🤗
Hi Mike - is ‘Hard to Handle’ by the Black Crows played a bit swung ? particularly the drum intro - cheers mate
Hi Loris - yes that intro is a tiny bit swung. Great example of how straight and swung is not a dichotomy, but two ends of a sliding scale! 👊🏻
Thanks Mike cheers
Thank you for this illustration. There is a YT reaction channel, Andy & Alex, where they have reacted to a lot of the '70s music that I grew up with. In dissecting a song after hearing it, they often refer to the "swung" feel of the drums, and I've wondered if they meant what, to me, sounds kind of like the rhythm of a dancer's kick step (the old-fashioned kind, like from Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire). At 1:47 in this video from the movie, "Singing in the Rain", Kelly illustrates what I'm thinking of. Thanks to your help, I know that I was right. ruclips.net/video/D1ZYhVpdXbQ/видео.html
Click machines are killing feel. Swing FTW, because quantizing sucks....
Thanks for watching! I actually personally think quantize absolutely has it's place, but of course I loved to hear drums being played. Cheers 👊🏻