Phrasing That Freakin Swings

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Phrasing That Freakin Swings

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Күн бұрын

In order to start swinging in your soloing and melodic phrasing, you have to have listened to A LOT OF JAZZ. But also, you need to look closely at these elements and add them to your busy practice schedule. Let's look at The Beatles, Miles Davis, The Basie Orchestra, and Red Garland for our answers.
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@nickfletcher4132 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Aimee. A mac is an abbreviation of 'Mackintosh' which is the name of the man who invented/created a waterproof raincoat (possibly the first). So a mac is a raincoat. They were very popular here in England.

@TorkilZachariassenTZNG 5 жыл бұрын

29 minutes of wisdom for any musician, presented, played, edited, etc., with great humour, knowledge, attention on detail and enthusiasm . 'Play it as you say it' is just one of the golden advices here. This is the master swinging video on YT, period. Bravo, Aimee.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Torkil. ❤️

@WoodyGamesUK 5 жыл бұрын

I like how you refer casually to 'the lick', without thinking about it. Like it's an old friend that doesn't need introduction.

@SamChaneyProductions 5 жыл бұрын

If you want to skip ahead past the superfluous stuff, the important stuff starts at 0:00 ;)

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

@VeritasGames 5 жыл бұрын

I just laughed out loud at the "please give up the booty" and all my coworkers looked at my like I was insane... oh man.... tears in my eyes....

@graysonwilson-cacciapalle7989 5 жыл бұрын

Get back to work!

@JohnHorneGuitar 5 жыл бұрын

Great observations. Not many people think about swing with this level of detail. I’ll be sharing with my students!

@nomore8208 4 жыл бұрын

That is absolutely so right

@byrdog21 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee...Great topic. Not enough teachers go into timing and rhythm in this much detail. Would love to see one about syncopation and how it is different than swing.

@Leo.Brodie 5 жыл бұрын

"Mac" is short for mackintosh, a raincoat. (I grew up in the Beatle's era so I know these things! :-)

@MICKEYISLOWD 5 жыл бұрын

Well said. That phrase had Americans baffled for 50 yrs...lol

@cherylsibson8457 5 жыл бұрын

No Mackintosh is an apple in Canada which by the way is for sale. If my memory serves me, they had a green mackintosh on the album cover.www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/original-mcintosh-apple-farm-for-sale-1.4850402 I grew up in the Beatle's era too!Standard Apple album and single labels displayed a bright green Granny Smith apple on the A-side, while the flipside displayed the midsection of the apple cut in half. The bright green apple returned for Beatles CDs releases in the 1990s, following initial CD releases on Parlophone. However, on the U.S. issue of the Beatles' Let It Be album, the Granny Smith apple was red. The reason was that in the United States that album, being the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, was, for contractual reasons, being manufactured and distributed by United Artists Records and not Capitol Records, so the red apple was used to mark the difference. In the late 70s, Capitol's parent company EMI later purchased United Artists Records and Capitol gained the American rights to the Let It Be soundtrack album (along with the America rights to another, earlier, UA Beatles movie soundtrack LP, 1964's A Hard Day's Night).answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110120124016AAiBFWk&guccounter=1

@petesheehan6927 5 жыл бұрын

@@cherylsibson8457 How can you wear an apple? Apple music came later.

@cherylsibson8457 5 жыл бұрын

you mean Harold Wilson: The one scrapped old pension top-ups in 1975? I was only 15 in 1975? I still think they used Macintosh apple, ok someone contacts Paul McCartney and ask him.www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9876437/Harold-Wilson-Night-the-PM-who-lived-and-died-by-television.html

@Leo.Brodie 5 жыл бұрын

The banker never wore a raincoat in the pouring rain. www.thoughtco.com/the-beatles-penny-lane-history-2523744

@siflex Жыл бұрын

The flipside to how you've explained this - I was an accent reduction coach on a few occasions and I used a book called 'Jazz Chants' that takes sentences and phrases in English and puts them to the cadence/tempo of jazz tunes - you might be interested in looking through a copy. Author is Carolyn Graham. It's the same explanation you use, coming from the other direction.

@NomeDeArte Жыл бұрын

Thank you Aimee, trying to learn it and you videos are, as usual, so useful. Best wishes from Argentina!

@insertnamehere9154 5 жыл бұрын

"Please give up the booty"😂😂😂 now if that's a prerequisite, I should be playing Mozart by now.

@hensonjames1664 5 жыл бұрын

Your channel is awesome. I am a trumpet player myself but everything is so helpful. I teach high school jazz students and share your videos with them!

@JohnnyB1953 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Amy! This is brilliant! I've always had difficulty with consistently accenting the upbeat. It sounds odd to me. As your video suggests, it's all about the feel, the sound. I've been working on a simple Stanley Turrentine tune called Sugar. It's an easy minor blues tune. The notes in the fakebook are a good start, but they don't sound quite right when played as written. So, after watching your video today I played the tune (I'm a keyboard and organ player) with feel, and softly sang along with the melody and my improvization. I accented per my taste and slid the melody around the beat a little. What an amazing difference. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@francisforbay3937 5 жыл бұрын

Lazy song guitar

@dandiacal 5 жыл бұрын

I had a master class with David Baker in like 1980 or '81 and it was pretty cool. Enjoyed this vid.

@milenjarashtiwi7047 4 жыл бұрын

Whuaa, thank you so much. This video was a break through for me! It's amazing how you explain it so clearly.

@dvaughnpershing6553 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Aimee - I enjoyed your careful analysis on swinging. I think pretty soon swinging becomes a state of mind. Earl Garner’s left hand swings just like Freddie Green. This is a good tutorial I think. Thank you as always for your ideas.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Good point!!

@regmoree4617 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, Thanks!

@YHRS 5 жыл бұрын

I just looked up that Earthworks SV33 and HOLY MOLY! The jazz education business must be very lucrative :D Great video, as always. Between you and Adam Neely, you've driven home how much of a Neanderthal I am when it comes to playing, writing and arranging. I'm comfortable with that, but you definitely give me something better to shoot for.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

I’m sponsored by Earthworks. It’s a loaner! :) A long-term loaner.

@bunnyblueblevins914 5 жыл бұрын

I've learned by now that you have to learn the theory, because it's important, but ultimately, you have to move on from the textbook and just listen to what the theory is trying to accomplish in context to fully understand it. I started learning how to scat last year in my choir class, and the way I was being taught seemed backwards and "square" to me. I finally stumbled upon your channel and things finally started to make sense, so thank you for amazing videos and the time and dedication you put into them. Also, I love that shirt.

@alanhirayama4592 5 жыл бұрын

I really like the comments over the pre-recorded format. Thank you for an awesome lesson!

@rcjinAZ 5 жыл бұрын

That was the best explanation of swing feel I've ever heard. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@lonniemusic1402 4 жыл бұрын

amazing video! so true and so important to know! thanks :)

@dylanmorris6003 5 жыл бұрын

Learning about Freddie Green saying “Chunk” is worth the whole lesson

@cameodamaneo 5 жыл бұрын

You notated "sing out of tune" in the wrong key. Subtle. 👌

@ustinbass 3 жыл бұрын

This helps a lot!

@jacksonnexhip 5 жыл бұрын

dude you're so cool, thanks so much for all the awesome videos

@txsphere 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Really getting into the nitty gritty that people don't talk about. Trail blazer in youtube music education.

@elaisamancini 4 жыл бұрын

More videos like this one please!

@taurus3973 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I think your discussion inadvertently points up an important tension and distinction between rock and jazz: When someone consciously tries to make a pop or rock song “swing,” it often produces a mannered, stilted, cliched effect, that causes us to say “that’s a lounge, Las Vegas version of a great song!” And that’s never a good thing! Swinging has its important role in the world of jazz, but programmatic attempts to swing can strip a song of its soul and guts, which is essential to rock and r&b. That’s why we laugh so hard when we hear Bill Murray, lounge singer.

@HapticNoise 5 жыл бұрын

"I'm not gonna say that they're wrong... ᵗʰᵉʸ'ʳᵉ ʷʳᵒⁿᵍ"

@danseb43 5 жыл бұрын

Welp! Found my new favorite channel. Keep up the great work. You've got it figured out. Thanks for the free lesson ;)

@smoke09able 5 жыл бұрын

Another great lesson Aimee. John is right about the Sinatra/Basie "Fly Me to the Moon" rendition swinging hard.

@drutgat2 5 жыл бұрын

I find your videos so interesting. Thank you, Aimee.

@lakegirlroxy9852 5 жыл бұрын

Another great video, I don’t read music however just by watching your videos and picking up on your hands and what they are doing and my skype lessons you give me Aimee have helped me get the swing feel which I Love! I love my t shirts I bought off your website, they feel and look great, my friends and I love the saying :) Everyone that swings or wants to Freakin swing needs one!!!

@chriscopeman8820 5 жыл бұрын

I think that recording some guys that swing and playing along with them has helped me. I'm guessing singing or dancing with them would help too. Perhaps recording ourselves and listening to what we sound like might be of benefit.

@DLee1100s 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks AImee. I can only assume the people that clicked the dislike button simply missed the like button with poor mouse control.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

🙃🙏🏼🙌🏼

@DLee1100s 5 жыл бұрын

I have spent a lot of time analysing Freddie Green's playing to a crazy in depth level and have formed some of my own opinions about his style and feel. I agree with what you are saying about the almost imperceptible 'k' at the end of the "Chunk" and when that K happens matters a lot. That K sound is the sound of Freddie lifting his left hand fingers off the strings and the tiny little buzz the vibrating strings make as they rattle on the fret between the moment he begins to release the pressure and the moment his fingers leave the fret and thereby mute the strings.

@bradking1067 5 жыл бұрын

okay,im not watching more than a few minutes of dis and I love your musicality!I'm 47yr. old guitarist from Indy.youre so cute! I could just sit and look at you all day! sorry if I creeped you out but at least I'm honest thanks God loves you deeply

@budonline2012 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this i got a lot from this with the way i sing in all genres.

@jazzchromaticdulcimer4223 5 жыл бұрын

This is great!

@ericbarritt304 5 жыл бұрын

Great lessons.

@JohnResciniti 5 жыл бұрын

Great vid. Love the swinging series. Happy belated bday too!

@LispingtonMusic 5 жыл бұрын

Accented offbeat notes can often be thought of as a beat played a little bit early for extra accentuation. That also means that accenting all offbeats makes no more sense than accenting every single beat in a melody.

@Jasper_the_Cat 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic instruction!

@RaeLoumusic 5 жыл бұрын

Loved it!

@DaveLeoni 5 жыл бұрын

Nice lesson!

@joshcharlat850 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee, Just in case (which because of KZfaq would be a lucky for you moment) you haven't heard it, the following recording is SO for you. It'll make you grin if not move: NASTY MAGNUS by Count Basie. It's a Quincy Jones composition/arrangement which is perfect for that 1963 band!! Enjoy it AGAIN if you know it or enjoy the discovery! It really MEANS something 'cause it swings. Baci da Roma!

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

That was wonderful! Thanks for the tip. snare drum alone kept everything right on track. :-)

@petesheehan6927 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent!!

@sgkogan 5 жыл бұрын

"Neglect the hell out of it". We need a T-shirt with this inscription!

@Dodgerm1cbo 5 жыл бұрын

Hi there I'm Roger from Burton on Trent UK the word Mac is short for MacIntosh a raincoat named after a Scotsman

@Bamblagram 5 жыл бұрын

Wait.. Dan Waldis was your teacher?! When? I took jazz piano lessons from him at my college! That is so weird..

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Yes. :)95-97

@int3533 5 жыл бұрын

Inspiring

@MaxRamos8 5 жыл бұрын

I am literally swinging playing tuba at my university's jazz ensemble!

@theoooms7277 5 жыл бұрын

great stuff, thanks !! the "rickie tickie" made me laugh :)

@richardneel6953 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee, Aimee. What would you THINK if I sang out of tune. Errors in Beatles lyrics? I'm shocked!

@AlwaysHopeful87 5 жыл бұрын

At my novice level, I like to have my Casio play different rhythms with the same melody. It is fun to get into the different feels, including swing.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Even though that might be fun, I don’t recommend it. Your Casio cannot reproduce a good swing feel. You need to listen to jazz for real, my friend. :-) Thank you for watching.

@AlwaysHopeful87 5 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte On, thanks.

@anaandrade5277 5 жыл бұрын

GREAT video!!!

@DaddySantaClaus 5 жыл бұрын

2 , 4 and the ands lool i love your channel im just a guitar man

@sigurjonor4817 5 жыл бұрын

That's BEBOP

@ibji 5 жыл бұрын

Hi. Great video and great lesson, thanks. Quick question, would you also include the beginning to the song Eight Days a Week as an example of swing?

@empowermph 5 жыл бұрын

..ok, 100% this life is a simulation, many examples, but just today, for the 1st time, I looked up 'how to sound like____', which introduced a new term to me 'phrasing'..I absorb that, run thru Spotify jazz roses, got all nostalgic, emotional & inspried..looking for goosebumps to recreate..that's the thing w/ commercial tunes today, no more proper A&R there to filter the strong art from the rest, the Tommy Mottolas & such, you know, natural selction, evolution, so yea..singularity simulation, get off work, crib, tube time, & my darling Aimee just uploaded 'phrasing..' today //there's no way this is coincidence, impossible odds, meant to be. absolutely love this. I know I can do this, its an open book test.

@MICKEYISLOWD 5 жыл бұрын

Penny Lane is one of the greatest compositions in popular music ever written. It has 7 modulations in there that are all done with stealth leaving the listener hardly noticing and serves to make the chorus slightly wistful (downward mod) making perfect sense lyrically and then the final key change (upward mod) celebratory with beautiful French horns...I think:) Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields were recorded during the SGT Pepper sessions and were intended to be on the Album however the Label demanded a single and so they were released as a double 'A' side to keep them at bay sadly.

@kencory2476 8 ай бұрын

Penny Lane should be the #1 pop song in anyone's rating.

@TheLonesometoad 5 жыл бұрын

Why not write those with dotted quarter notes??

@jasneskis 5 жыл бұрын

As a general rule music teachers can't improvise, they don't know swing so they can't teach it. They are still stuck in John Thomson type learning. University of S Fl teachers say they don't know jazz and thus don't teach it, same for swing..

@88keyes 5 жыл бұрын

Good Morning.

@JAYDUBYAH29 2 жыл бұрын

“Mac” = Mackintosh = rain coat in English vernacular. Kinda like how Americans call a tissue a “Kleenex” and some call any vacuum cleaner a “Hoover.” The brand name becomes standard for the product and in this case gets abbreviated.

@thecourierNCR 4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's backwards to think about swing as at least triplet based. She's just describing the percentage of swing she thinks is correct in order for it to sound good to her.

@nlandau2555 5 жыл бұрын

hey aimee, a mac is short for macintosh. A raincoat.

@kencory2476 8 ай бұрын

I know, five years late, but a "Mack" is a "Mackintosh", a kind of raincoat.

@matthewgoldberg1461 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee I’ve been so frustrated by books that describe “swing” as dotted eighth + sixteenth triplets. Sounds like you are not endorsing that either? The most swinging thing I’ve ever heard is the shout chorus from Basie’s Splanky. Sounds just like what you do on this video. Not every piece sounds good in a 12/8 feel. I tried imagining Splanky that way, and it sounds like Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

@diminishedthicc 5 жыл бұрын

i love it, WHERE CAN I GET THAT SHIRT!?

@jasneskis 5 жыл бұрын

A Mac is a coat, like a rain coat.

@williammidgley3905 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's necessary to accent the second quaver unless notated. I'm a classically trained musician but have been playing for (and now lead) my school's big band. I've never been taught to swing; I just did it. A big inspiration for me more recently has been Gordon Goodwin.

@dvaughnpershing6553 5 жыл бұрын

@sgkogan 5 жыл бұрын

Why just not write the "neglected" note as a 16th or 32rd?

@zac3392 5 жыл бұрын

You are all wrong. “Mac” refers to Apple computers, whom John Lennon prophesied about 50 years ago. That’s the reason they were the only band that started doing music videos…They knew someday you would be watching on your iPhone…

@RobertHahl 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this lesson Aimee. All the work shows. It is easy to hear swing in jazz because that is expected, but I can never be sure about it in other forms of music. For instance, both of these performances are great. Is this swing? What makes it groove so hard? Del McCoury Band - All Aboard kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp5gftqUlr27mYU.html Del McCoury Band - That Ol' Train kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atGAhdyrx5--ZGg.html

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Cool recordings. Both have a swinging 16th feel but the eighth note does not swing. Watch my video called “does it swing” and I think you’ll learn the difference. ;)

@RobertHahl 5 жыл бұрын

Okay, but what is this swinging 16th of which you speak? Here is a studio recording with a similar feel. Maybe I'm just asking how many angels can groove on the head of pin, but is there something distinct about this rhythm that can be described in words? Sweet Appalachia - The Del McCoury Band kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9GjndeIztedlqM.html

@joshcharlat850 5 жыл бұрын

Rikkee Tikkee Tavi !!!

@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371 5 жыл бұрын

You are funny😀

@cns7139 5 жыл бұрын

Skip to So What at 16:17... and still, not enough playing of examples amidst the talk.

@dandiacal 5 жыл бұрын

Fredde Green was the King

@BobNL1964 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Aimee, your videos always "black out" on me. The screen will go black and the sound will continue. Only happens with your videos. I don't know if I'm the only one with this phenomenon? It makes it difficult to watch.

@MICKEYISLOWD 5 жыл бұрын

Change your browser to Chrome. It works better.

@JohnResciniti 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an issue on your end (browser or hardware), with it coincidently happening on Aimee's vids.

@BobNL1964 5 жыл бұрын

I am using Chrome. My first thought was that' is on my end, but I watch many other videos and it only occurs here. So that's why I'm asking.

@JohnResciniti 5 жыл бұрын

@@BobNL1964 crazy! Good luck with figuring it out! I got nothing.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

I sure don’t know, Bob. I don’t think anyone else has made this comment. Are you sure it only happens on my videos?

@williammidgley3905 5 жыл бұрын

9:42 that just sounds like a semiquaver into a dotted quaver. Not swung at all.

@TheBasde 5 жыл бұрын

Loool that "neglect the crap out of them" just killed me... You're the best Aimee, too funny! Now sorry but I gotta go... I am neglecting the crap out of my schoolwork :))

@DaveLeoni 5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@dibblethwaite 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with almost everything you say here but I can't hear any swing in the Beatles music whatsoever. I don't even think Miles or Coltrane are great examples. Thank heaven you got to Basie an Red Garland towards the end. They are real swingers along with Gene Harris, Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, Clarke Terry, Hampton Hawes, Horace Silver, Tubby Hayes, junior Mance, Jimmy Smith etc. etc. There are loads of them. To my mind you picked some weird examples early on is all I'm saying.