this is music man Dre again with key drums one-on-one
subtitled straight versus swing
i've had the opportunity to work with a lot of great musicians drummers pianos keyboard is based players organized
whatever you
what i've noticed with a lot of drummers that I have worked with is
they kind of had a hard time distinguishing the difference between straight and swing with specific grooves or specific
so I find myself working with them to kind of
so IFK I'm trying to help them correct this
and that's what this video is gonna be about
is still a key drugs video but this could be applied to any other musician
that might be dealing with this
so don't write in a straight fields are
straight girls are mainly focused on fours
so you have your quarter notes your eight notes you're sixteenth notes and your thirty second notes so your forward quarter notes would be
now your ain't no such as being twice that so it be
and your sixteen those would be twice that
and your thirty second nose of course would be twice that
and I'm gonna play that on a snare with new hands because it's kind of fast
my bed
with a straight roof everything i've played with
landing on one of those notes whether it be on the thirty second the sixteenth the eighth
the fastest thing I would ever play as usually at thirty second note
because it's kind of hard just to play anything master unless you're doing some type of route
I'm gonna play a group that's going to be
Kwan ties I would say
to the thirty second
it was the highest position would be at the twenty thirty second note
so here we go
my bad
ok so nothing I'll play it was faster than
which is the thirty second
and everything is based on force
alright so
when it comes down to triplets
or getting over the swing side
everything is based on three
now I'm gonna try to break is down the easiest way I can
I'm going to take the sixteenth notes that we were using from the strait field
and I'm gonna try and apply it with swing
so you can kind of get a good idea of what you do to make it feel the way is supposed to feel
I'm gonna play straight be where you have
sneer
sixteenth notes
okay
now when it comes to triplets and swing basically everything is
wanted three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three
alright so
I'm going to the same beat with the kicking snare again
put the sixteenth notes of oil on it from the straight side
and then flip it and put the
triplet notes on from the swing side
so you can get an idea and I'm gonna show you how most people usually play the actual triplets
because they usually don't play all three notes
so here we go
I sixteen
ok
now we're gonna add the triplets
want to three
now as you can see that was a lot of struggling
most people would play it like this actually
sorry sorry about that just keep me hip knees action notes
as you can see the difference
therefore with the straight field in a sixteenth notes
then you get over into the swing side you doing wanted three month to three month to three month to three
as opposed to want two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four
and then to take it up a notch you take out the actual second note that your hitting
as opposed to playing that because it can wear you out you play
now I'm counting the tomb so you can hear exactly where the three goals
but when you play it by itself is basically
it kind of feels like there's a small lag lay
up on
which is where you gonna get that that's Wingfield from it happens in jazz all the time like
when you hear on the German plan though
love the ride cymbal
didn't end the day and ended their catching that
and as opposed to plain like all of it out
so when you put it together in a groove like I play with the straight side
when you come to the swing side of it you basically apply the same feel
so everything else that your playing
so
a perfect example I'm going to show you how to put the snare on a swing field with your playing be like this
kicks their regular bien troubling
I if you notice I am actually playing the snare on that last high at
like a I'm playing on the three remember are playing one in three with the I had and it's not just a one two
this is as a high resolution so I don't want to play
a lot of work but
let me break it down and make a leaving slower so you see exactly what I'm doing
ok
so you can see I'm playing the one two three one two three sir can see exactly where everything is going
now I'm gonna take out that tomb so you can see what it usually feels like when a drummer's playing
alright now I'm going to speed this up
I'm gonna start sewing speed it up so you can see what it feels like
oh I oh like that
so as you can see is a fundamental difference between the two
now when she start putting your feels and stuff in
it's definitely still based on the triplets so
now everything is gonna fall on the
triplet feel want to be wanted you want to feel wanted you want to feel wanted want to want to change
everything is gonna fall on our feel
now an exercise for you to practice
I know I haven't gotten into detail with all the other licks and stuff but
this will be a good exercise for you to practice your triplet feel
slow it down get play with the metrodome
don't try to do everything I just did
but just start from the fundamentals of what I showed you
I thought
now if you want to get the complete triplet feel
until you're comfortable enough with taking out the two you can play
like that
and I'm starting really simple like this because it's a fundamental thing once you get the fundamentals down
you know it's easy to to to move forward and progress with licks and stuff but
you kind of have to get their concept in your mind down before you can start just moving on and doing other stuff
so remember
straight
fours
swing
threes
alright
if you meet the if you need to review this video
they'll just remind its gonna be on youtube
just keep checking it out look at the other videos if you need to reference anything
and I guess I'll see you next time