what creates swing in music?

[00:00:00]All right. So, what creates swing or what I see as, you know, when the beats kind of sound like they're falling into each other essentially rather than just kind of hitting in a very stationary way. I don't know. I think that's a very bad way to describe it, but a very good visual example of this would be right. This would be just your regular, you know, rhythm that you have with your, you know, BPM or whatever. But in order to make this have more swing, you would have to divide these beats into uneven halves. You could look at any of these, you know, beats or bars or whatever. This can work on any type of scale. But if you divide this beat right here, for example, into two uneven parts. So this one and this one, right?

[00:00:39]It will have a little bit more swing than whenever it was played just regularly like this.

[00:00:45]Right? And in order for you to be able to notice this a little better, this would be like your, you know, regular beat or where your clap would be placed.

[00:00:56]Right. This first part has a little bit more swing than the second part because these bars right here or these beats are divided into two uneven halves. Now, I forgot to kind of properly describe this, but that idea of dividing, you know, a beat into two uneven halves, can be done on any type of scale. So, for example, this whole thing could be divided into just these two right here, uneven halves. And if it's played at a very high BPM or whatever, this will have more swing than if it was just playing on the regular beat and this was just divided into two completely even halves or whatever. But yeah, this can essentially be done on any scale. And I would say that if you're using a higher BPM, you'd be looking at a slightly, you know, bigger bar. And if you're in a very low BPM, you'll be looking at a slightly smaller one in terms of how you would divide it and stuff. But, you know, whatever.

[00:01:43]That's just my thoughts. And also this can be done or used anywhere whenever it comes to music in order to make your rhythm a little bit more interesting, right? So whenever all of your drums are just kind of on beat, [music] it'll be kind of boring. But if you go ahead and offset these to where, for example, in this case, each bar instead of being divided into four, which is even, it'll be divided into threes, which is uneven, [music] it'll already have a little bit extra swing. But if you also offset that kick, for example, right here to where it's aligned with, you know, this third beat in this four beat section or whatever, [music] it'll have even more swing. And then if you combine that with a clap, [music] you'll have a much more swingy pad. And of course, you can, you know, really mess around with how you divide each one of these beats. What you're doing is you're just offsetting your drums and your instruments from the stationary regular rhythm. There's probably better words to use for this, but you know, I think with the visual example, it kind of makes sense. If you think about this while making your melody as well, you can create some stuff that is very cool and doesn't sound boring, right? I feel like a lot of music whenever it's just playing very on grid, it's kind of boring. And I feel like a lot of music nowadays is kind of like that. And I think it's more fun whenever music has a little bit of extra swing and stuff, which is why I make a lot of my music like this. But I guess we can now get into an example beat where the melody is also made like this or with this thought process. All right. So here is set example beat.

[00:03:17]I am sort of dividing this into three.

[00:03:20]Maybe if I do this [music] now the division's a little bit more clear. But as you can tell, these are kind of divide into three uneven parts.

[00:03:31]And I guess if you kind of want to think of sort of not so accurate, but an interesting way of thinking about it is it's almost like playing a three four time signature in 44. Not really, but kind of I guess. I don't know. But obviously you can tell that the notes are divided into three different parts that are all in even. So it has a little bit of extra swing. This sound isn't necessarily the best example for this just because it's already set up to have a pretty clear rhythm. But I'm going to add like a pluck now that's going to going to make this a little bit more clear.

[00:04:02]So here, you know, if you want to see the uneven divisions, you look at these little small bars, right? One, two, one, two, right? It makes sense using the one six. So it's dividing the bars into threes, which already makes them uneven.

[00:04:13]And then you just use these very offset placements. Sounds very swingy. You know what I'm saying? You don't even need any drums. The melody's already building up the swing. Actually, I want to add a slightly cool little tech to this.

[00:04:30]And something else I noticed is that if you kind of add these little [music] extra notes on the, you know, the ending of this three division or whatever, the last two beats, it kind of sounds like a glitch or something if you pitch it up very high. If that makes sense.

[00:04:46]Heat. Heat.

[00:04:52][music] All right. So, now we have all those elements below that swing. Let's take some of them and make them sound a little cooler.

[00:05:32]Hold on. I feel like I could just >> [music] [music] >> All right. So, at this point, it's going to be kind of hard for me to kind of point out. Actually, no, not really. So, right here, right, you have this one six split, which with, you know, the clap placement being right here or whatever, [music] sounds kind of awesome, right? You can think about it as right instead of just instead of that we have this absolutely awesome pattern which also matches you know some of the notes on here or some of the placements I guess [music] I really want to add a 808 G that's plus seven [music] [music] I'm going to arrange this beat way differently. I want to make a beat on how to like arrange your music and stuff and you know the way that I think about it. I want to do that a little bit later on. But this arrangement, I think I'm going to make it a little bit different or I'm going to build it a little bit differently. For some reason, I want like an extra sound. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

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[00:07:48][music] Heat! [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> All right. So, when I said I was going to arrange this thing a little differently, I was kind of lying, more or less. No, it is kind of different, though. I mean, there's still like an intro part, but there isn't really like a main drop except for this, but this isn't necessarily a drop cuz there isn't any drums there anyway. So, I don't know. Pretty interesting beat. Not anything that good. I didn't use any very cool 808s. Maybe I'll go back in later and add some cooler ones. But I don't know. I feel like I like that specific 808 that I chose for this, like the second one other than the same. And I think it's just kind of a cool beat that has a lot of swing from the uneven divisions tag. I'm just going to export the melody so that it can sound a little crispier with some fresh air, I guess.

[00:08:59][music] All right. I think this is solid enough.

[00:09:05]I don't mind it. I think it's an all right beat. delete is kind of weird, but I feel like it kind of acts as a tension builder that eventually gets resolved in this drop or whatever. So, kind of works. But yeah, besides that, I mean, that's all the info I had. I don't have anything else to say. So, yeah.

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