What is Swing? Swing Explained in 2 Minutes (Music Theory)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Hi there!
I'm (finally!) back with a new music theory related video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, a period known as the swing era.
You will recognize "In the Mood", a popular big band-era #1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. It topped the charts for 13 straight weeks in 1940 in the U.S. In 1999, National Public Radio (NPR) included the song recording on RCA Bluebird on the NPR 100, the list of "The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century". Then in 2004, the original song recording on RCA Victor was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry which consists of recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Hopefully I made it clear, understandable but, above all, fun! :)
Enjoy!
Davide
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I was searching for copper and I found gold
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why were you searching for copper
@@iguanaacuatica5543 you need to step up your meme game
It’s so called “serendipity”
No click bait, straight to the point. And explained easily. Instantly subcribed.
Thank you very much! :)
Same. I subscribed to them right after the video finished haha
Informative comment, defined point of view. And no punctuation errors. Instantly liked.
Me too. It's like the second video I watched and I really appreciated it!
Yeah its easy to understand and its clear thanks you lad
For anyone looking for the name of the song, it is the legendary "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller and his orchestra.
Thank you sir, now I can finally Rest In Peace
I new what it was immediately I learned how to play it on the piano
Used to listen to glen miller with my grandma as a kid
Owe you one big time.
your comment was a year ago, yet it still helped me to this day
@@virtualcynical8515 don't worry about it my friend. Have a good day!
In an age of short attention span and unending thirst for interesting content, this video is gold.
2 mins, no voices, no talking heads. Just visuals and sound.
No complex music theory, no 20 minute video essay on the origin of the genre. Just the barebones of what makes swing sound like “swing” in layman’s terms.
Cool stuff!
if he got a david byrne feature i would of absolutly subscribed
@@jtotheulian708 you beat me to it with that joke.
No, it isn't. It's banal, superficial and of no use whatsoever to a true musician. Which you ain't.
I guess the only one who disliked this just wasn't... In The Mood?
Perhaps they preferred to Sing, Sing, Sing?
Git
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Maybe some are, "Flying home"?
lmfao
“Rose! I’ve just realised!”
“What?”
“I can dance!”
This is why you don't skip nine.
yeah Nine could dance, but have you seen Ten?!
This line feels familiar but idk where it from (?)
Doctor Who, The empty child
i did NOT excpect i would see a Doctor Who fan here
Dude. This video should be named: "A hundred pages on music in 2 minutes.."
Rubbish. easy for him to play that fast, for a beginner confounding, what even chords he is using.
@@sophiepooks2174 12 bar blues
The way it builds up is so interesting and really makes you appreciate all the layers that go into it! This made me discover an appreciation for swing music I didn't know I had, gonna listen to it now lol
lol I clicked so fast the video was private
Me too
Me too.. M back after a few minutes again
@@UnusedRUclipsChannel underrated comment
i love the walking bassline for swing, it brings the extra mood!
I thought the thumbnail was a picture of a computer keyboard and this video was about coding in Java Swing, but this is a much better video.
Derp Herpington same here!
You, sir, are an educator. I'm a swing dancer and this is one of the best explanations of swing music I've ever seen, succinct, easy to understand with straightforward use of visual and audio tools. I've shared it with many dancer friends already. Please keep up this wonderful series!!!
As a swing dancer, this is one of my favorite videos on RUclips. I love feeling the energy of the music rise as each new section is introduced and seeing each section play their fundamental role in this awesome genre of music. Simply amazing!
10000% agree!
2 minutes. Simple. Sophisticated. To the point. How it should be - perfection. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this one.
헐 사람들이 스윙 설명하는거는 다른 내용 말하며 계속 늘어트리면서 시간만 끌던데...
이분은 2분만에 완벽하게 핵심만 집어 말하네요 스윙에 대해 잘 몰랐었는데 이 영상 보고 알게 됐네요 감사합니다!
I've watched your Ragtime and Boogie Woogie videos as well and they are very well edited! I am extremely impressed with how you created clear visuals and used clever audio mutes to succinctly explain the nuances of music. Not only are the visuals clear, but there are several minor details that really up the quality of your work---clearly you are more than just a musical professional, but are skilled at art/graphic design as well. Hope your channel grows a bit more since this level of quality (and the time it takes to put something like this together) deserves more viewership.
Thank you very much for your kind words! :)
After watching this I just feel the urgent need to play Swing right now!
this is what a real knowledge-based youtuber should be. straight to the point, simple and clear explanation.
I'm 77 and IMO Miller is one of my go-to bands. I just love swing.... Thank you!! Subbed!
These have quickly become some of my favorite music theory videos, and I didn't even know I wanted that in my life. They so simply explain and breakdown a genre into its parts that even a total newbie like me can understand it easily.
You know what should have millions upon millions of views? This should. Becaus this is every part of brilliant and then some.
Expertly explained. I've been trying to understand swing for ages. I love the piano arrangement. I would pay for a sheet music version of it honestly.
This is GREAT! I will listen with new ears to Swing from now on. Thanks for this!
This video is absolute scaffolding. A very minimal amount of content in it, but it provides so much information that I feel like anyone can make any new genuine swing song from it. Barebones structure, sturdy and impressive results.
Não sou americano, mas estudei jazz em Tatuí. Percebo o quanto a gente consegue aprender mesmo não estando lá. Mas acho que quando a gente toca na frente de um americano ele percebe os sotaques. Quando vejo musicistas tocando choro, axé, funk, samba etc eu consigo ver o sotaque do exterior mesmo as pessoas tocando certinho… Acho que issso tem conexão com a nossa escuta e prática desde a infância…
Honestly I love this format of instruction.
It leaves it up the viewer what song they wanna write- all its showing is how to write it as swing.
From this point it's up to us how we wanna experiment and make the song our own. I love that it doesn't even provide a general sense of the chords and progressions that make swing. Of course that can be helpful, but I feel like that's the sort of thing I'll be able to find anywhere else.
I love how Dave explains music theory. Enough music terms to get tought the topic, but also not too much in order to keep it in laymans terms. Very succinct, and in building block format. I love it. I subscribed the minute I arrived to the channel late 2019.
Swing is my favorite genre of music so this is great
i love how simple and quick this video explains about swing. Something hard to do, because most people will need more than 10 minutes to explain it.
Been trying to understand the swing for a while now (especially on the piano) and you explained it so clearly, thanks!
I’m playing the song you played at the beginning in my music class, I love in the mood.
That was the clearest, most enlightening and just plain fun two minutes I can remember! Thanks!
Random clicking on RUclips and I find this? Very well done. I'll be watching.
I just love that you put the sketches exactly where the musicians are in the music video.
Great work
음악 장르에 대해 관심이 생겨서 의문이 많았는데, 스윙이라는 장르에 대해서 잘 알아볼 수 있어서 좋았습니다.😀
Your channel is so good 👌
Why doesn’t this channel have more subscribers? it boosted my love for music new and old and is so much fun to watch and listen to.
This is a depressingly underrated channel
What's not to like? We were only hungry for some musical food, now we're absolutely, positively in the mood.
This was a song my grandmother still danced with, practically up until the day she passed away. One of my favorites. And VERY well explained!
This guy is about to blow up, he’s onto something here.
These are some of the most interesting music videos on RUclips! And they keep getting better
Thank you very much! :)
This video is incredible. Straight to the point, no rambling on, well made, easily undesrtandeable. Subscribed
Real question is why doesn't it exist anymore
Good question! Anyone with a heartbeat should recognize that this is probably the BEST kind of music to listen or dance to. Yeah...it's "old-time". Who cares?!?! It frickin' ROCKS!!! Tell me y'er toes aren't wigglin' to this? It makes ya just WANT to get up and DANCE.
Not to mention...have you ever watched how folks back then actually grooved to this music? They were cuttin' some pretty mean rug! (Yeah, okay...that might be a phrase you youngsters might not recognize. "Cuttin' the rug" would equivalate to "bustin' a move".)
@@rockdog2584 well the 2020s are supposedly getting back to Swing as the "Roaring 2020s" (i frkn lmao when i heard thats what they were calling the decade)
lol swing completely exists now. Almost all jazz music you hear is gonna be in swing.
Swing isn’t as much a music genre as it is a type of syncopation and articulation in jazz. A lot of swing you will hear might not sound like this. It’s just how you emphasize the individual notes.
Flou it exists completely. Almost all jazz music you hear is gonna be swing. It’s just how you articulate it.
I'm almost not sure if I want to look behind this curtain, but thanks! Really well done.
I'd love it if you could do "What is waltz? Explained"!
Can we do all genres of music explained?
One of the rarest moment when youtube recommended me a good stuff
Amazing video. I was surprised at how slow-paced the dancing was. I'd be going crazy all over the dance floor.
Agree, that was not swing dancing.
Even as someone who knows absolutely nothing about music, the explanation was really easy to follow along. Instant sub.
I expected electro swing remix at the end not gonna lie xD
Loved the starting 15 secs of music..absolutely loved it. Also the whole video was amazing
Man I'm just back to the channel after a couple of years and it was for youtube recomendations, I'm not disapointed at all. Just keep working on that, your job is awesome .
Thank you very much! :)
These videos are just perfect, no waste of time, straight to the point, well structured. Congratulations.
Ohh god. Let's hail the RUclips algorithm by giving me GOLD
It’s not like I was heavily searching for it or anything like that, but for a while now I’ve been reading things that try to explain this because I’ve heard the term thrown around often without fully understanding it. This video explained in 2 minutes what huge paragraphs can’t seem to do at all.
I actually got to to see the Glen Miller Orchestra play in Chicago back in 2015. I don't think any of the original members were on stage but the band did play from the original sheet music. During the dinner, my teacher grabbed the original clarinet In The Mood sheet music off the stage for myself and the other students to snap a quick picture of it. We were literally holding a piece of history in our hands.
The original band members were all born in the first or second decade of the 20th century; only a couple of them were alive in 2015 and in none were still performing. As of this writing (end of 2018) only one member of the AAF Band is still with us, and only Ray Anthony remains from the civilian band.
A perfect video to explain what is swing.That really helpful for me. thank you
Folks, here’s the thing with social dancing...
Guys: asking a girl to dance on a ballroom floor doesn’t mean you want to date them, or that you have a crush on them, or anything like that. When you ask a girl to dance, ask her because you want to dance, because she looks nice or dances well, or just because you know her. Don’t be nervous, the worst that can happen is that they say no. Then just ask the next girl. Additionally, dancing with lots of girls doesn’t make you ‘a charmer’ nor does it make you look ‘just desperate’. It just means you want to dance. A lot. Which is great because that means you are ahead of 90% of the other guys there.
Girls: it may go two ways depending on the situation. In one, lots of guys want to dance with you. This is because they know you personally, or have seen you dance before, or because you look around a 7-8 out of 10(I’ll explain later). Just accept the first dance you seem comfortable with. Guys understand that we need to be fast to get the girl we want to dance with us. Don’t worry, you will have a chance to dance with the next guys after that song is over.
The other way it can go is where guys are too anxious to dance with you. This may be because (and this may seem counter-intuitive) you look like a solid 9 or 10. This isn’t bad, but guys with no confidence will be scared to dance with someone so beautiful, so they won’t even ask. If this is happening, look around and find the guys who aren’t talking with friends, eating the snacks, or on their phone. See if anyone sends a look your way, and then quickly looks away and acts nervous. Then ask them to dance. Yes, it can seem weird at first, but it doesn’t make you look desperate like some may think. It just mean you want to dance, and no one is asking to dance with you. Just because no one asks doesn’t mean no one wants to dance with you. A social dance is a game of mental strength and confidence, and the ballroom is the playing field.
Let me know if this helps, and one last thing to know: confidence is everything. And if you don’t have any confidence, just fake it. Fake it until it becomes real.
(boy this was quite a blog post of a comment)
Carter Johnson Thank you, sir. Our acquaintance party is underway and I'm already anxious. This helps a lot!
Yo thanks man :)
I love how you never assume I'm a 1-2 XD
Now I want to learn to dance :D
You obviously don't know anything about human nature at all. Of course when a man invites a woman to dance its because he is sexually attracted to her. If the woman accepts it's because she is interested also. The whole point of the dance is to spiritually connect with each other and figure each other out.
If the social dance was a game of "mental strength and "confidence", we would probably just play a sport or just play an instrument.
I once heard an inspiring quote, that went something like “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing”.
I need these videos for every single musical genre
I've been searching this for years...and FINALLY
Electro swing is all well and good, but true swing, now that is something I can dance to.
How have I been a musician for more than 20 years and JUST NOW learned there is an abbreviation for accompaniment?? I'm so happy I found this but damn I could've saved so much time and stress...
Clould you mix is with something?
Idk maybe ELECTRO?
Alright i came back to listen to this again.
And i have 400+ likes?
Thanks
Lol nice pun
Best genre
My fav
Never heard before, sounds good
*Caravan Palace intensifies*
I heard the melody started playing and the title "In the mood" flashed through my mind at an instant.
im watching this after knowing that the new title track of Seventeen, which is HOME;RUN, is a song featuring a swing genre-based retro sound & a cheerful and striking sound 🤧💓 i love this video!!
this was not the video I was expecting to see a fellow Carat on but a pleasant surprise! HOME;RUN was the song that solidified me as a Carat! (my intro to SVT was through Hoshi's single)
Thanks so much. Have tried over the years to explain swing to the "non converted." This is the best explanation thanks so much.
PLZ MAKE A FULL VERSION, BLESS U!
This video deserves all the views and likes it has.
Wow. Such an amazingly polished and well-made video. Very, very well done.
Got my toes a-tappin'! Gotta love that old swing jazz big band sound. Sets me groovin' from the first couple of notes. Can listen to the old swing masters all day long.
we need more series like this. All explained clearly
love the call and response example shown. just brilliant
Thank you very much! I'm glad you liked it :)
Great in theory & even better in practice:
Perfect audio-visual demonstration of the musical facts behind!!!
IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS SONG FOR A WHILE NOW IM SO HAPPY
So what is electro swing again? 😜
Neal Rainer Chio swing with a modern twist
it's a swing but you don't need a full 20 people band
Swing but shittier
Mamarre Mamarre Mamarre Mamarre and you are like other people but shittier
@@justyourfriendlyneighborho4280 True Story
Glenn Miller is definitely a great example to use, he practically helped pioneer the genre
I've been trying to transcribe In the Mood into a string orchestra for a little while now, so this video helps me figure out what the rythm section is. Thanks!
Rhythm section in a big band is almost always piano, bass, drums, and either guitar or banjo
I do not know anything about music. It seems musicians can work magic. But your explanation was simple and to the point.
You should make a mashup or a remix for all of your full songs request from these explained in two minutes guide. Loving it!
That’s such a great and compact presentation. Thank you very much from Germany.
Music is truly man's greatest invention
Close. I'd still say the wheel is the winner of all time, after fire of course. Roading those instruments would be a pain without the wheel tbh. :)
@@Wistbacka come on bro. You should know it isn't etiquette to reply to old comments. But yeah music is our greatest invention not most essential. If you're gonna try to act all smart at least do it right
@@Wistbacka since when was fire invented by man?
@@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411 okay mr. Nitpicky: the invention of being able to start a fire at will, not just wait for a thunderstorm or really hot day to ignite some leaves if you were lucky.
No. Knitting is.
That song really put me in the mood for some swing
Expertly explained and beautifully demonstrated, and at the same time!
Thank you very much! :)
I remember first hearing this song at about 10. I was floored - I loved it immediately
Amazing!! Instantly subbed! This video explains it perfectly!
Excellent demonstration of swing! TYFP!
love it!! best way to lern something about the diffrent music genres
Great stuff! One thing that one could add and I think is important ( not exactly necessary) is the guitar in the rhythm section. Ala Freddie Green, par example.
Again, this is the best channel for videos about music.
Can't wait to see what the next project will be about!
I have officially found my favorite channel, not joking
You forgot to explain swung eighth-notes, but otherwise this is spot-on! Love it!
Brilliant, concise and easy to understand.
You're amazing, dude. All your videos never disappoint. Keep it up.💕 (Also full version please)
Man, you're right. I was shaking my foot to the rhythm without realising as I was watching this video while reclined.
Amazing content as usual Dave ! I'm so glad channels like yours exist so you can share a kind of music more people should know 👌 Keep it up like that 👏
Thank you very much! :)
Glenn Miller.....I'm no more than 20 but listened to the CD's day in and day out. I wish I was taught how to dance like my grandparents sometimes.
My all time favorite type of music, swing